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Category: Literary Reviews

December 25, 2020

Arvustus: Eesti keskaegsed linnused, Kalvi Aluve

Hinnang: 4 / 5 Härra Aluve kirjeldus Eesti keskaegsest kindlusmaastikust on selgelt professionaalse arhitekti poolt kirjutatud raamat. Terminoloogia on keerukas ning tihtipeale on kohtade…

December 21, 2020

Review: My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse

Rating: 5 out of 5 It was the Monday of last week that I had my introduction to the world of Jeeves and Wooster….

December 19, 2020

Review: Dead Mountain, Donnie Eichar

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was impressed when I originally heard of the author’s goal: to retrace the steps of the lost Dyatlov…

December 16, 2020

Review: The Burning God, R.F. Kuang

Rating: 2 out of 5 I enjoyed the previous two volumes in this series—though the second one was a step below the first book….

December 13, 2020

Review: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement, Ashton Nichols

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’m not in two minds after finishing this book—but I can’t deny that when I started it sounded a…

December 8, 2020

Review: Attlee and Churchill, Leo McKinstry

Rating: 4 out of 5 Both Attlee and Churchill were the giants of their time, there is no doubt about that. One might doubt…

December 3, 2020

Review: The Satsuma Rebellion, Sean Michael Wilson

Rating: 4 out of 5 The Satsuma Rebellion, or at least its Hollywood version in ‘The Last Samurai’, is probably known to many but…

November 27, 2020

Review: Viking Britain, Tom Williams

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was disappointed in this. Norse influence in Britain is a wonderfully intricate subject, so to begin a book…

November 26, 2020

Review: The Last Emperox, John Scalzi

Rating: 5 out of 5 Perfect ending to this trilogy though perhaps difficult to describe without giving too much away. Suffice to say that…

November 25, 2020

Review: Lords of the Desert, James Barr

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Barr has the quality of being able to find the most outrageous anecdotal incidences that led to an…

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