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Month: June 2018

June 30, 2018

Pirita Convent

Pirita is an iconic neighbourhood of Tallinn, and it’s convent — in all of its many forms — has often been used as a…

June 29, 2018

Review: Superforecasting, Philip E. Tetlock

Rating: 4 out of 5 I really enjoyed this one — it has both depth and focus, and the structure of the novel is…

June 29, 2018

Review: Odysseus Ascendant, Evan Currie

Rating: 4 out of 5 Evan Currie is really giving empires a bad name — I wonder what they ever did to him? Too…

June 27, 2018

Bischofsburg Ringen (Rõngu)

Rõngu is a small place in Southern Estonia, much like that of Rannu a bit to its north. The one exception, and it is…

June 25, 2018

Review: Odysseus Awakening, Evan Currie

Rating: 4 out of 5 The series’ sixth installment continues much as before although with a slight change to the previous narrative structure (only…

June 24, 2018

Arvustus: Liivimaa riimkroonika

Hinnang: 4 / 5 Ajaloolisi allikaid on raske, isegi ehk võimatu, hinnata tänapäevaste standardite järgi, kui just selleks ei võta teose võimalikku kasulikkust praegusele…

June 24, 2018

Review: Warrior King, Evan Currie

Rating: 4 out of 5 I recently noticed that Books 6 and 7 of this series were out, so I wanted to refamiliarise myself…

June 23, 2018

Bischofsburg Randen (Rannu)

Rannu is a place I had never heard of before starting to explore the history of Southern Estonia, and then noting that a castle…

June 22, 2018

Review: The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben

Rating: 2 out of 5 This is a hard one to review. I enjoyed the subject, but not the author’s take on it. Taking…

June 21, 2018

Review: Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, Carl Sagan

Rating: 3 out of 5 This was a weird one: a book dedicated to explaining why we sent a certain selection of our combined…

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