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February 27, 2022

Review: The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything, Jonn Elledge

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’ve liked Mr Elledge’s articles for a long while and this book is a somewhat natural extension to those….

February 9, 2022

Review: Swedish defensive fortress warfare in the Great Northern War 1702-1710, Ulf Sundberg

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Sundberg’s published dissertation looks into how Sweden failed in its preeminent task: that of fortifying it’s borders for…

December 23, 2021

Review: On Power, Robert A. Caro

Rating: 3 out of 5 I’m finding it difficult to rate this. Overall, I was disappointed but my disappointment was with the packaging and…

November 10, 2021

Review: The Business of Science Fiction, Mike Resnick & Barry N. Malzberg

Rating: 5 out of 5 It’s not difficult to like this book though you’d have to have considered the subject previously. Without that bit…

September 24, 2021

Review: The Prime Ministers, Steve Richards

Rating: 3 out of 5 This book is a journalist’s look into the latest Prime Ministers. Going back about fifty years, we start with…

September 4, 2021

Review: The Invisible Women, C. Criado Pérez

Rating: 5 out of 5 It’s impossible to define how good this book is. This is not because the content cannot be objectively evaluated,…

July 30, 2021

Review: Working, Robert A. Caro

Rating: 6 out of 5 Ever since I picked up the first volume of Mr Caro’s LBJ biography, I have been mesmerized. Every word…

July 5, 2021

Review: Brain Rules for Baby, John Medina

Rating: 4 out of 5 While Mr Medina’s introduction into how a child starts to learn about the world was well-written, it lacked a…

June 16, 2021

Review: How to Be Wrong, James O’Brien

Rating: 3 out of 5 I listen to Mr O’Brien often enough to know what he thinks about most topics. Therefore, I wasn’t really…

May 12, 2021

Review: Gaia, James Lovelock

Rating: 4 out of 5 I first heard the name of James Lovelock in sixth or seventh grade where my nature studies teacher mentioned…

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