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Category: Literary Reviews

October 23, 2019

Arvustus: Teekond maailma ääreni, Raul Talvik

Hinnang: 4 / 5 Huvitavad ja üldiselt hästi kirjeldatud mõtted. Mõnedest vigadest hoolimata on tegu põneva raamatuga, kus professor Talvik kirjeldab huvitavalt Saaremaa võrdsustamist…

October 18, 2019

Review: Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

Rating: 3 out of 5 I wasn’t as great a fan of this book as I was of the previous ones. I think it…

October 16, 2019

Review: Poltava 1709, Angus Konstam

Rating: 3 out of 5 I decided to read this because I had just finished Peter Englund’s far longer and more descriptive overview of…

October 16, 2019

Arvustus: Poltaava, Peter Englund

Hinnang: 5 / 5 Poltaava lahingust on vähemalt koolipingis kuulnud enamik eestlasi. Lühidalt, 28. juuni 1709 hommikul rivistus Karl XII armee ööpimeduses, lootusega üllatada…

October 15, 2019

Review: Prevail, Jeff Pearce

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 This was a difficult book to read. The continuous struggles of one nation — Abyssinia — against Italy are…

October 14, 2019

Review: Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee

Rating: 5 out of 5 It was, again, my plan to review this before starting the third book of the trilogy. As it happens,…

October 11, 2019

Review: Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

Rating: 5 out of 5 It was my intention to write this before starting with the next book in the series, but I failed…

October 8, 2019

Review: Danny Williams, Please Come Back, Bill Rowe

Rating: 5 out of 5 There is a reasonable question which should encircle the topics we emerge ourselves in — and the boundary should…

October 7, 2019

Review: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Bryson seems to capture the perfect image from Great Britain (he does not speak of Ireland) in this…

October 2, 2019

Review: War of the Wolf, Bernard Cornwell

Rating: 4 out of 5 The ‘Saxon Stories’ seem interminable by now, and yet the author now states only a few books remain —…

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