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Category: Literary Reviews

November 10, 2019

Review: Lost Worlds of South America, Edwin Barnhart

Rating: 2 out of 5 “While the accepted belief about this topic is this, I think that that is actually more correct.” In this…

November 8, 2019

Review: The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 It would not be fair to say that I utterly disliked this book. What made me dislike this was…

November 3, 2019

Review: Blue Gold, Clive Cussler

Rating: 3 out of 5 A typical Cussler adventure, this. Nothing out of the ordinary or unexpected — although especially after the first of…

November 3, 2019

Review: A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 I loved this. The Appalachian Trail is probably a hiker’s dream — not only the (undetermined) length of walking…

November 1, 2019

Review: Factfulness, Hans Rosling

Rating: 5 out of 5 I am taken aback and struck by the truthfulness that comes through every word of Mr Rosling’s. He is…

October 29, 2019

Review: Bertie, Jane Ridley

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is a wonder to read two biographies of relatively similar people in close succession. For me, one was…

October 29, 2019

Review: William Pitt the Younger, William Hague

Rating: 2 out of 5 I had the misfortune to read another biography — one which I liked a lot more — right after…

October 23, 2019

Arvustus: Teekond maailma ääreni, Raul Talvik

Hinnang: 4 / 5 Huvitavad ja üldiselt hästi kirjeldatud mõtted. Mõnedest vigadest hoolimata on tegu põneva raamatuga, kus professor Talvik kirjeldab huvitavalt Saaremaa võrdsustamist…

October 18, 2019

Review: Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

Rating: 3 out of 5 I wasn’t as great a fan of this book as I was of the previous ones. I think it…

October 16, 2019

Review: Poltava 1709, Angus Konstam

Rating: 3 out of 5 I decided to read this because I had just finished Peter Englund’s far longer and more descriptive overview of…

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