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Only Room for One Goat at the Top

The Feast of the Goat / La fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa

October 27, 2024 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

This is my first go-around with Mario Vargas Llosa, and this book was the month’s choice for a world literature bookclub that was held back in May.  I had known for weeks that this was the chosen book, so I thought I had plenty of time to track down a copy to read. However, when I checked the local e-libraries, none of them had any of Vargas Llosa’s books available—in English. Interestingly, Harris County’s online library seems to have almost his entire back catalog in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: bastards, cbr16bingo, dictators, everyone is bastards, goat, historial fiction, liberate, Mario Vargas Llosa

LittlePlat's CBR16 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: bastards, cbr16bingo, dictators, everyone is bastards, goat, historial fiction, liberate, Mario Vargas Llosa ·
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History and its Bastards. Greedy, Greedy Bastards.

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. by Adam Hochschild

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple

May 29, 2023 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

I think I am going to spend my Memorial Day weekend writing about history. And it’s not going to be about the nice bits of history, either. I have been holding off on a number of these reviews because sometimes the subject matter was just a little too depressing. At best, we are dealing with a conga line of arseholes. At best. And at worst? Well, we’re dealing with some pretty bad ‘at worsts’ here…  The first book is Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost: A […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #history, adam hochschild, bastards, Belgium, Congo, East India Company. Clive you dickhead, EIC, India, king leopold's ghost, the Anarchy, the company, William Dalrymple

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: History · Tags: #history, adam hochschild, bastards, Belgium, Congo, East India Company. Clive you dickhead, EIC, India, king leopold's ghost, the Anarchy, the company, William Dalrymple ·
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Cannonball: a Family Affair

September 2, 2015 by Caitlin_D 11 Comments

I heard about Mary Anna King’s Bastards through an article on Uproxx a few months ago and clearly so did a few other people because after her book came out in late June there was a wait list at the local library. Bastards is not a completely accurate title- Mary and her siblings were born to parents who were married (although at some points separated) but financial circumstances made keeping them all together impossible. Before Mary was two her grandfather & his wife came to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, bastards, mary anna king

Caitlin_D's CBR7 Review No:52 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, bastards, mary anna king ·
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