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April 20, 2020

Review: A Way in the World, V.S. Naipaul

Rating: 3 out of 5 It’s difficult for me to write about this book. In a very simple classification, I’ll draw a line between…

April 16, 2020

Review: Hippie, Paulo Coelho

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was my first Coelho in more than a decade. As such, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect:…

April 15, 2020

Review: Heroes, Joe Abercrombie

Rating: 5 out of 5 This was my second time with Mr Abercrombie’s ‘Heroes’. I remembered the book as a story of the wild…

April 13, 2020

Review: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb

Rating: 5 out of 5 I had no real previous experience with psychotherapy up until this book. There was plenty that was very interesting…

April 10, 2020

Review: The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Rating: 4 out of 5 As humans, it is natural to personify the objects and creatures we write about. This error is common, but…

April 9, 2020

Review: Lords of the Horizons, Jason Goodwin

Rating: 1 out of 5 It is rare to see an Anglosphere historian take notice of an “external” power, and to focus upon one…

April 8, 2020

Review: The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux

Rating: 0.5 out of 5 Let me say, to begin with, that there were parts to this book that I liked. These involved the…

April 7, 2020

Review: Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters

Rating: 3 out of 5 Other people have called this “an unique literary experience”. I will agree with this, without reflecting on whether this…

April 6, 2020

Review: The Forts of New France in Northeast America 1600-1763, René Chartrand

Rating: 4 out of 5 M Chartrand’s description of life in New France is improved by this edition. While the focus has passed from…

April 5, 2020

Review: French Fortresses in North America 1535 – 1763, René Chartrand

Rating: 4 out of 5 I enjoyed this overview: M Chartrand describes the state of Québec, Montréal, Trois-Rivières, Louisbourg, and New Orleans. The focus…

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