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Category: Literary Reviews

May 19, 2020

Review: United States of Vinland, Colin Taber

Rating: 3 out of 5 I am not sure this qualifies as very thoughtful literature, but it was definitely easy to read. Mr Taber’s…

May 14, 2020

Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

Rating: 4 out of 5 I liked these memories. Mr Lawrence wrote well, he managed to captivate with some very good descriptions, and, most…

May 13, 2020

Review: Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir

Rating: 2 out of 5 Well, I stepped into this myself. I know how Ms Weir writes and what she writes about. What I…

May 5, 2020

Review: The Prophet, Khalil Gibran

Rating: 5 out of 5 ‘The Prophet’ falls very easily into the category of books that one would love or hate; for me, it…

May 3, 2020

Review: Teutonic Knight: 1190-1561, David Nicolle

Rating: 2 out of 5 While Ospreys may be an acquired taste, what one should find in one of these really shouldn’t surprise the…

April 27, 2020

Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 I remember reading a review of this work on The Guardian which went in some depth into Ms Jemisin’s…

April 24, 2020

Review: Secrets and Lies / The Trial of Christine Keeler, Christine Keeler

Rating: 3 out of 5 I finished this a long while ago now, but I wanted to wait with a review such that I’d…

April 22, 2020

Review: The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell

Rating: 5 out of 5 A deep and eerie story, the primal conflict of man against another man is a topic Mr Connell managed…

April 21, 2020

Review: The Anarchy, William Dalrymple

Rating: 5 out of 5 This is a great overview with insightful analysis — including the author noting times when other researchers disagree with…

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…

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