Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerOkay, lets just start with the fact that this far from the most engaging book I’ve read. It is by no means poorly-written, and it is well organized and presented. But, I’m no hurry to go through it all again.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So far as I know, Carl Sandburg is hardly known today, though my edition of this set starts with a recounting of a speech he was invited to make before Congress. Generally, he was a poet, but became so fascinated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Andrew Roberts spared no effort in writing a new biography of Napoleon. He spent a lot of time with the archives, toured many of the sites of Napoleon’s battles (the vast majority of them, in fact), and just spent a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another book bought because of non-selective Kindle sale buying. And a worthwhile one as it turns out. This is a fairly interesting look at the highest level of British society at the end of the 18th Century. As a biography,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Adam Zomoyski starts his book by noting that there’s no truly adequate biography of King Stanisław II Poniatowski in any language, and his doesn’t measure up either. He figures Stanisław deserves two fairly large volumes to trace down every tangent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Massie’s book on Catherine the Great is first and foremost a biography, and never loses sight of this fact. As an empress, there is a temptation to equate her with the state, and end up with more of a history[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…