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Perang Kemerdekaan Indonesia.

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David van Reybrouck

February 9, 2025 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

After making Majaphait one of the last reads of last years Cannonball Read, I decided to keep with my South East Asian history roll with Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David van Reybrouck. As you can see, I’m also continuing with my long standard interest in Australia’s immediate northern neighbor. It just boggles the mind that such a large, diverse country has such a small impact on the public consciousness. I think a lot of this has to do with […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, colonialism, David van Reybrouck, everyone is bastards, Indonesia, post-colonialism, revolution, South East Asia

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:1 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, colonialism, David van Reybrouck, everyone is bastards, Indonesia, post-colonialism, revolution, South East Asia ·
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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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‘The Habsburgs were the first rulers whose power encompassed the world, and they achieved greatness by luck and by force.’

The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady

In The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross

January 18, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

For all the royal watching going on right now, its the British Royal Family that’s hugging the spotlight. And, really, how could they not? Liz the Second—who we all thought was destined to live forever—shockingly popped her clogs last year. And now her grandson seems to be taking his turn airing out the dirty laundry, much to people’s delight. But the lives of royals are always ripe for high drama, if you are into that kind of thing. So I’m going to ring in the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History Tagged With: #history, audiobook, austria, boobs indulging in incompetent boobery, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Edward Shawcross, everyone is bastards, Habsbergs, Holy Roman Emperor, incest, Martyn Rady, mess, mexico, new author, royalty, shave dickhead, world history

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Audiobooks, History · Tags: #history, audiobook, austria, boobs indulging in incompetent boobery, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Edward Shawcross, everyone is bastards, Habsbergs, Holy Roman Emperor, incest, Martyn Rady, mess, mexico, new author, royalty, shave dickhead, world history ·
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