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January 20, 2013

‘The Lost Fleet’, J. Campbell

Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of…

January 19, 2013

‘King Rat’, J. Clavell

This is not actually a review of the book but the dedication I saw in there today, for two reasons. Firstly, aside from counting…

January 16, 2013

‘The Broker’, J. Grisham

One of the first books I read this year was John Grisham’s ‘The Broker’. I obtained this book almost accidentally when I noticed Grisham’s…

January 2, 2013

Short Overview of 2012 Readings

Well, why not? It seems, by the Goodreads account that I read something along the lines of 27,000 pages in 88 books. Added to…

December 23, 2012

‘Out of the Great Sea…’, J.R.R. Tolkien

Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide, and my heirs, unto the ending of the…

December 22, 2012

Review: Clouds Above the Hill Vol I and II, Ryotaro Shiba

A small island nation was about to enter a period of great cultural change. I believe that one of the best things that happened…

December 17, 2012

‘The Radetzky March’, J. Strauss (Vater)

I have always been a great fan of ‘The Radetzky March’ but it is only now after reading a biography of the Marshal Joseph…

December 16, 2012

‘Radetzky’, A. Sked

“That you will make no deliberate blunders, your character guarantees; if you make the usual ones, well I have long become used to them.”…

December 12, 2012

‘Castles in Context’, R. Liddiard

I recently read this revisionist piece of castle history, specifically concerning the building of castles in Anglo-Norman England (and Wales) between 1066 and the…

December 7, 2012

‘The Analects’, Confucius [Kong Fuzi]

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought…

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