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Category: Historical Fiction

November 12, 2013

‘The Deluge’, H. Sienkiewicz

As promised, I wished to write some more about ‘The Deluge’. I am quite a fan of the writings of Henryk Sienkiewicz, and I…

November 11, 2013

‘Harakiri: Death of a Samurai’

While I was planning to write of ‘The Deluge’ today, I think that has to wait for another day. The why is related to…

November 10, 2013

‘With Fire and Sword’

I know that there has been a small gap in my writings here, and they will probably be less frequent than the two months…

March 5, 2013

Review: The Tatar Whirlwind, Ryotaro Shiba

I managed to finally finish Mr Shiba’s ‘The Tatar Whirlwind’ on Friday — given that I started the book in late September/ early October,…

February 13, 2013

The Works of Ryotaro Shiba

I have found Ryotaro Shiba to be an entirely compelling writer. There is just one problem: accessibility. His writings were all originally in Japanese,…

February 5, 2013

Review: Drunk as a Lord, Ryotaro Shiba

As is quite apparent from my previous writings, I am quite an avid reader of anything that Mr Shiba has had published in English…

December 22, 2012

Review: Clouds Above the Hill Vol I and II, Ryotaro Shiba

A small island nation was about to enter a period of great cultural change. I believe that one of the best things that happened…

December 6, 2012

‘The Ionian Mission’, P. O’Brian

I today had the opportunity to finish the first of Patrick O’Brian’s novels that I’ve tried to read. This happened to be ‘The Ionian…

November 9, 2012

‘The Fort’, B. Cornwell

With the good excuse of not being a Massachusetts/Maine/Boston person, the contact previous to this book that I had had with Paul Revere had…

October 15, 2012

Review: Kukai the Universal, Ryotaro Shiba

KÅ«kai was born in 774 in Sanuki Province, which faced the central provinces with the easternmost part of the Seto Inland Sea in between….

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