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Category: Biographies

February 3, 2021

Review: Ryoma! Vol IV, Ryotaro Shiba

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is to my regret that while I bought this the day it came out, I only now took…

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…

May 14, 2020

Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

Rating: 4 out of 5 I liked these memories. Mr Lawrence wrote well, he managed to captivate with some very good descriptions, and, most…

May 13, 2020

Review: Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir

Rating: 2 out of 5 Well, I stepped into this myself. I know how Ms Weir writes and what she writes about. What I…

April 24, 2020

Review: Secrets and Lies / The Trial of Christine Keeler, Christine Keeler

Rating: 3 out of 5 I finished this a long while ago now, but I wanted to wait with a review such that I’d…

April 13, 2020

Review: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb

Rating: 5 out of 5 I had no real previous experience with psychotherapy up until this book. There was plenty that was very interesting…

April 8, 2020

Review: The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux

Rating: 0.5 out of 5 Let me say, to begin with, that there were parts to this book that I liked. These involved the…

March 13, 2020

Review: The Perfect King, Ian Mortimer

Rating: 3 out of 5 I read two histories that could have been one. One of these was Isabella’s biography; the second was Edward…

March 13, 2020

Review: Queen Isabella, Alison Weir

Rating: 3 out of 5 In a surprising twist, I accidentally planned books on Isabella and Edward III to be read one after the…

February 27, 2020

Review: As it Happened, Clement Attlee

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is a remarkable opportunity to find a man who has occupied every great office of state and yet…

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