Quick Synopsis: Lady Gruadh comes of age in 11th century Scotland and makes a play to become Queen of Scots Quick Review: A well-told story for anyone interested in Scottish history or the characters behind Shakespeare’s famous (and fairly inaccurate) play Read the full review here
Pro Gloria Dei
I read half of this book at various points last year, and read the other half whilst on a 14 hour bus ride this week… so I’ll count this review for this year, especially since I wrote it on said 14 hour bus ride. This is a book about history; a book about a cathedral. It is about England and the Church, about good and evil and the spectrum between. Most of all, it is the story about people who fill that spectrum: people who […]
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The Unknown Shore
Quick Synopsis: The adventures of two young men in the British Royal Navy circa 1740 Quick Review: Good for O’Brian junkies, but not for newcomers to the works Read the Full Review
On Curveballs, Statistics, and the Good Face
Golden sunlight on a baseball field carved out of pristine Iowa farmland. A row of stands where immaculately dressed spectators wave little banners. Beer out of a paper cup, a nickel a pop. And young men, nine to a side, playing a game that’s as entrenched in the heart of pastoral America as the pasture itself. Only, this Norman Rockwell painting hides the full truth, because among the spectators is a man working for a major league baseball team. He’ll drive ten thousand miles this […]
Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
Book of Ages was a 2013 National Book Award finalist in the non-fiction category. Historian Jill Lepore pieces together the life of Ben Franklin’s sister Jane and in doing so not only reveals the life of a fascinating “ordinary” 18th-century woman who happened to be the beloved little sister of a Founding Father, but also demonstrates her own prodigious skills as an historian. Lepore’s work is specifically about Jane but more broadly about history and historians, biography and novels, and determining whose lives are worth […]
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