Fiction – Meditations

October 5, 2021

Review: Greenmantle, John Buchan

Rating: 4 out of 5 A thoroughly enjoyable spy-novel, I actually picked this up after Mr Hopkirk mentioned it for about the thirtieth time…

August 7, 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5 I heard about this story from a history of American 19th century thinking where the short story was described…

June 29, 2021

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was really enjoying this book until the end, where the plagues that have riddled the previous Longmire books…

May 26, 2021

Rating: 3 out of 5 I wasn’t overly impressed by this… Mr Johnson becomes ever more repetitive with every volume in his series. The…

May 5, 2021

Rating: 2 out of 5 This is the Longmire book I’ve liked least thus far, though I may have rated others lower. I knew…

May 4, 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Wodehouse’s style, 1920’s through and through, is enough to make anyone laugh. Contrary to my previous experience, I…

April 24, 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5 The author really managed to pack everything I want and expect from the Longmire series into this book: a…

April 20, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Johnson’s Longmire series continues… I wasn’t quite taken aback by this; there was less of the internal philosophising…

April 14, 2021

Rating: 3 out of 5 Mr Johnson’s books—and the show that’s based on them—became such a favourite of mine because of the Mountain West…

April 11, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 The second book in the Longmire series did not capture me as much as the first one had though…