August 2020 – Meditations

August 31, 2020

Burg Wack

Burg Wack, or the castle of Vao, is described as a tower-fortress, the keep being one of the few surviving edifices. Background literature, as…

August 30, 2020

Review: The Danish Way of Parenting, Jessica Alexander

Rating: 4 out of 5 A very straightforward book, this read in the majority like a dumbed down, combined, version of ‘Thinking, Fast and…

August 29, 2020

Review: The American West, Patrick N. Allitt

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was a really interesting read for me: trying to understand how the United States came to be and…

August 21, 2020

Review: The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dag

Rating: 3 out of 5 The best part of this historical crime puzzle was the setting: late 18th century Stockholm. Many of the ancillary…

August 20, 2020

Burg Engern

Burg Engern, or Angerja, was a relatively minor fortified manor house, standing a small distance outside of Tallinn to the south. Construction was started…

August 19, 2020

Review: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 There is something fundamentally simple in Mr Bryson’s approach. While we aren’t dealing with a historian extraordinaire, it is…

August 18, 2020

Review: Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson

Rating: 3 out of 5 Leonardo was, no doubt, a genius. Mr Isaacson, on the other hand, I’m not so sure about. While a…

August 14, 2020

Review: Vulcan 607, Rowland White

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr White’s account of the RAF in the Falklands War is both spectacularly well written and contains amazing detail….

August 5, 2020

Review: October, China Miéville

Rating: 2 out of 5 It feels weird for me to start a history, and to notice that the author says that he isn’t…

August 3, 2020

Review: Notes from a Big Country, Bill Bryson

Rating: 4 out of 5 There’s a certain charm to collected news columns—that they were, perhaps, written over a long period, and we can…

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