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Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan by Hildi Kang

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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. The were multiple problems with this novel which is why ...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Basho's Haiku Journeys by Freeman Ng, Cassandra Rockwood-Ghanem

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a short, but gorgeously-illustrated book (by t...
Monday, September 6, 2021

The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman

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Rating: WORTHY! Subtitled "Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul" this audiobook goes into ...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Treasures of Tutankhamun

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Rating: WORTHY! This picture book was put out by the Metropolitan Museum of Art which sadly doesn't seem to think the writer(s) de...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

The Classic Slave Narratives by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs

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Rating: WORTHY! This book really is four books in one, beginning with Olaudah Equiano's story (told here as Gustavus Vassa and run...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

The Grand Inquisitor's Manual by Jonathan Kirsch

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Rating: WARTY! This was a print book I picked up somewhere a long time ago, and just now got around to reading. Frankly, it was borin...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Which President Killed a Man? by James Humes

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Rating: WORTHY! James Humes was a speechwriter for several Republican presidents, and this is a book of trivia regarding presidents, v...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

The Ladies Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

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Rating: WORTHY! This is a story I normally wouldn't read. The fact that the book description contains the tedious and worn-out ph...

Great Hoaxers Artful Fakers and Cheating Charlatans by Nigel Blundell, Sue Blackhall

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Rating: WORTHY! This was an entertaining print book featuring an assortment of over thirty stories about people from the distant past ...
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Malice by Heather Walter

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Erratum: "Noses grew bumps when hair was supposed ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a nicely-drawn and -colored graphic novel which I ...
Saturday, September 5, 2020

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

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Rating: WARTY! My evidently ill-fated quest to read some of the classics continues! For the life of me I cannot see how this won a Pul...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

The Story of Rap by Caterpillar Books, Lindsey Sagar

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Rating: WORTHY! This book made it under the wire despite being slightly inauthentic - presenting everything as beautiful in the world o...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

When Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney

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Rating: WORTHY! Dr Cooney is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA and she wrote this non-fiction book about six female ...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Rating: WARTY! In which my sorry attempt to embrace the classics continues rather unsuccessfully. This was published in 1851 and was...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

The Man Who Would be Jack by David Bullock

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Rating: WARTY! This is one of many books that push the author's personal favorite 'solution' to the identity of Jack the Ri...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

People and the Sky by Anthony Aveni

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Rating: WORTHY! This book - about how different peoples have viewed the heavens over the years - was interesting to me although I imagi...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes

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Rating: WARTY! I was disappointed in this. It's like listening to an old relative drone on about an ancient past in which you as t...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

Time Lord by Clark Blaise

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Rating: WORTHY! This book has nothing whatsoever to do with Doctor Who! Instead, it tells the true story of Sir Standford Fleming and ...

Bright Dreams The Brilliant Ideas of Nikola Tesla by Tracy Dockray

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I'm definitely not one of these people who thinks Niko...