March 2024 – Meditations

March 29, 2024

Review: Ancient Wonderings, James Canton

Rating: 2 out of 5 I did not mind this book. It comes down to expectations: mine were for something akin to Robert MacFarlane’s…

March 27, 2024

Rocca d’Arona

Of the things that one can remember from an old visit, the promise of walls stretching alongside the high cliffs of the beautiful Maggiore…

March 25, 2024

Review: Ivory Trees, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Rating: 5 out of 5 I really enjoyed this instalment of the Diving series. Some of the other offshoots have been hit-or-miss for me,…

March 22, 2024

Review: Light Perpetual, Andrzej Sapkowski

Rating: 4 out of 5 I wish Mr Sapkowski would have an easier time writing a happy ending. I like his style which could…

March 19, 2024

Arvustus: Vana-Liivimaa maapäev, Priit Raudkivi

Hinnang: 3 / 5 Hr Priit Raudkivi teos on selge ülesandega: uurida Liivimaa seisuste kogunemisi, millest arenes välja 15. sajandi alguses maapäev. Autor läheneb…

March 16, 2024

Review: The Chase, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Rating: 3 out of 5 I really enjoyed this title—really, I couldn’t put it down—until the very end, where it seems to be the…

March 13, 2024

Review: Squishy’s Teams, Kristine Kathryn Rush

Rating: 3 out of 5 This felt like one of the weakest Diving series books to be, especially because of where it was placed—the…

March 10, 2024

Review: Landslide, Michael Wolff

Rating: Dreadful—not the book but its subject. The author’s look into a staff bent on serving their master at the expense of reality belongs…

March 7, 2024

Review: Thieves, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Rating: 4 out of 5 This volume in the Diving Universe is comprised of two halves: one related to the Fleet and another to…

March 4, 2024

Review: Harrier 809, Rowland White

Rating: 4 out of 5 I mostly picked this one up because I had read Mr Rowland White’s book on the Vulcan. I enjoyed…