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Month: March 2019

March 31, 2019

Review: The Knights of Malta, Joseph Attard

Rating: 2 out of 5 I have very mixed feelings about this one: from one point of view, this is the most detailed and…

March 28, 2019

Review: Eruption, Steve Olson

Rating: 5 out of 5 High praise for this! Not only did Mr Olson give a thorough overview of the story of (European) human…

March 26, 2019

Review: Queens of the Conquest, Alison Weir

Rating: 3 out of 5 I’m one to like a good narrative history, especially of the earlier medieval times in England. However, this book…

March 20, 2019

Review: A Great and Terrible King, Marc Morris

Rating: 3 out of 5 I like what Marc Morris writes — his style is readable, his thoughts proceed in an orderly manner. The…

March 18, 2019

Review: Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters

Rating: 4 out of 5 I was drawn into the Amelia Peabody series by my recent incursion into the more factual Ancient Egyptian stories….

March 14, 2019

Review: The History of Ancient Egypt, Bob Brier

Rating: 4 out of 5 I have found Ancient Egypt interesting for a long while and yet I had not picked up a single…

March 11, 2019

Review: Thrawn: Alliances, Timothy Zahn

Rating: 4 out of 5 I think as with a number of other books, my impressions a few weeks after reading are vastly different…

March 8, 2019

Review: The Fortifications of Malta, 1530-1945, Charles Stephenson

Rating: 3 out of 5 I expect more from an Osprey book. I would definitely expect more from an Osprey book that dealt with…

March 5, 2019

Review: Fire & Blood, George R.R. Martin

Rating: 5 out of 5 Not the great saga by GRRM but a broader, more wilful take on his world… I found this a…

March 1, 2019

Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 I found this an enlightening history which covered many a topic I had some idea of but also many…

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