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Category: Literary Reviews

February 26, 2017

Review: Empire in Black and Gold, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 2 out of 5 Took this up on a friend’s recommendation and I kind of wish I had not. The author thinks himself…

August 9, 2016

Review: Heroes, Joe Abercrombie

Rating: 5 out of 5 This must be the best of the four Abercrombie books I’ve read thus far. The book is a thrilling…

June 30, 2014

‘Into the Black’, E. Currie

Evan Currie’s fourth book in the ‘Into the Black’ saga is out in about a week. With that in mind, I decided to reread…

June 29, 2014

‘Anne Boleyn’, H. Brenton

I had the great pleasure of going to theatre yesterday — the play I saw in the Maddermarket Theatre was ‘Anne Boleyn’, written by…

June 20, 2014

‘The Wind Rises’, H Miyazaki

I saw this film only recently, and while I am still considering some of what it showed in the story, I was more hoping…

June 18, 2014

The ForeWorld Books

A man did not need to understand the words to know what was being said. Music, like violence, crossed all languages. I have been…

February 17, 2014

‘A Kiss Before Dying’, I. Levin

I can remember reading ‘The Boys from Brazil’ sometime last year. I never thought much else of Ira Levin although I really enjoyed that…

February 16, 2014

‘The Inn at the Edge of the World’, A. Ellis

I chose this book after my previous one because of the name. The name looked promising; I thought I had found a dramatic piece…

February 15, 2014

‘Cloud Road’, J. Harrison

This book started out very slow — my thoughts on its quality ranging from one extreme to the other. After all, how can we…

January 23, 2014

‘The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts’, S.M. Wilson

Sean Michael Wilson is a person I have already commented on twice recently, in the posts on The Book of Five Rings and Hagakure….

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