Onward with Temeraire, this time into the depths of the African continent! Today I’m writing four reviews, covering Books 4-7, so it’s all a little overlap-y, but one of the wonderful thing about what Naomi Novik is doing with this series is that she’s truly writing stand-alone books that also happen to build on each other. So, this one, Empire of Ivory, which is Book 4 of currently 8 in the series, takes our heroes, Will Laurence the human and Temeraire the wonderful dragon on […]
“every man’s watchman, is his conscience.”
I don’t remember much about To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s been over a decade since I read it, and I regret not re-reading it before beginning Go Set a Watchman. I kept trying to remember if Henry, Dr. Finch and Alexandra had factored into the first book or were new characters to replace Calpurnia, Jem and Dill. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch has returned home to Maycomb, from New York, for her annual two week vacation. Her lawyer father, Atticus, is in poor health and being minded for by his […]
Beetle Badass
“You refuse all help, reject all hope, and seem intent on living the most abject existence possible. If anyone is punishing you, look inward, not upward.” Abomination – Review at KatsCannon Preface in the name of transparency – I won this book as part of a GoodReads giveaway, courtesy of Inkshares. Free books in any capacity, be they giveaways, ARCs, or what have you, are awesome and I try not to let that influence my review, but I always like to be upfront about […]
A Graveyard Where Nothing Stays Buried
So, turns out some of those Civil War reenactors aren’t just pretending. I’ve never lived below the Mason-Dixon line, so this book is a bit of a shock. Confederates in the Attic is Tony Horwitz’s first-person account of his journey through the South, exploring Civil War battlefields, visiting memorials and museums, and taking part in reenactments with a “hard-core” group (hard-core here meaning they throw away the apple he wanted to eat because that particular kind didn’t exist in the 1860s, confiscate his sleeping roll, […]
Like studying history; Mostly fun but a little boring.
My actual rating of this book is somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. It was an overall enjoyable read but certainly didn’t live up to all the hype surrounding it in the sci fi community. As a history nerd, I also enjoy a well told time travel tale. My two biggest quibbles are that a) the book drags for a hundred pages or so after the inciting incident b) The finale seems a little rushed after slowly building up to it. The basic premise is […]
a hero is an ordinary human being who does “the best of things in the worst of times.”
In The Boy on the Wooden Box Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) shares his harrowing experience as a Jewish boy in Nazi occupied Poland. His father’s relationship with Oskar Schindler helped to save Leon and most of his family. Schindler is a controversial figure; some people see him a war profiteer but Leon sees him as the man who gave his family a chance. While Schindler is merely a tertiary character in the story of Leon it is his factory and the opportunities it afforded the Leyson […]
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