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October 14, 2020

Review: Heirs of the Blade, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 4 out of 5 While this started out slow, I ended up enjoying this volume in the Shadows of the Apt saga far…

October 14, 2020

Fort Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga has a name which might be difficult to remember at first, but once it’s in a mind it’s also unlikely to be forgotten….

October 13, 2020

Review: Icons of England, Bill Bryson

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was tricked. That can’t be right, can it? Well… It’s my fault obviously, but I still feel as…

October 13, 2020

Daugavgrīva

Swedish Livonia lasted for less than a century, and Swedish rule managed to fortify this important overseas territory less than its other provinces. Indeed,…

October 12, 2020

Review: Galatea, Madeline Miller

Rating: 3 out of 5 It’s clear that Ms Miller has a knack for getting Greek myths right—yet, though this short story spoke to…

October 11, 2020

Schloss Mitau

At one point, the Livonian Order—or, to put it rightly, the Livonian Branch of the German Order—had its castle at Mitau, modern Jelgava. History’s…

October 11, 2020

Review: America in the Gilded and Progressive Era, Edward T. O’Donnell

Rating: 2 out of 5 Mr O’Donnell’s scholarship for this work is impressive, no doubt, but I found the presentation complex and illogical. The…

October 10, 2020

Review: The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Rating: 3 out of 5 I really enjoyed some parts of this—especially the descriptions which linked to how Achilles fared after the death of…

October 10, 2020

Ordensburg Riga

From the moment after it was founded in 1201, Riga was the centre of Medieval Livonia: the administrative centre of the Archbishop of Riga…

October 9, 2020

Review: The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

Rating: 5 out of 5 Not only was Hiro Arikawa’s work a wonderful investigation of human emotion, I found she also perfectly captured the…

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Author: krikson