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Category: Literary Reviews

September 17, 2019

Review: Crazy Horse & Custer, Stephen E. Ambrose

Rating: 5 out of 5 I had heard the name of Mr Ambrose before but I hadn’t really picked up any of his books….

August 7, 2019

Review: The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rating: 4 out of 5 So… This was interesting throughout, I can’t deny that. Of course, a lot of the content seemed to be…

August 7, 2019

Review: Redemption’s Blade, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating the Book: 5 out of 5 Rating of What the Book Thinks It Is: 2 out of 5 Thinking about the question of…

August 6, 2019

Review: The Winter King, Thomas Penn

Rating: 3 out of 5 In no way was this an easy read. Not only is the author’s style fairly complex, but also there…

August 1, 2019

Review: Darien, Conn Iggulden

Rating: 3 out of 5 I was keen to pick up a fantasy and I am not so sure I made the right choice…

July 31, 2019

Review: Dauntless, Jack Campbell

Rating: 3 out of 5 The last time I wanted to look at Jack Campbell and his ‘The Lost Fleet’ series I did that…

July 31, 2019

Review: Kellanved’s Reach, Ian C. Esslemont

Rating: 4 out of 5 It’s typical of me to jump to the third book in the series and then think ‘This is slightly…

July 29, 2019

Review: Made in America, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was really interesting! Histories in general have the promise to be thrilling, histories of language share this but…

July 26, 2019

Review: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami

Rating: 5 out of 5 To begin with, I think there is one very clear mistake people can do with reading this: they can…

July 25, 2019

Review: Down Under, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 Bryson in Australia? Sure, I’ll take a look… What a perfect overview of the place! In the various hops…

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