Everything Is Better With Dragons
Book blogger, Autistic, Probably a Dragon
At 22 Tony Brasunas had never left the US, but fascinated by China he embarked on a post-University year teaching English in a Chinese high school. The school year over he the travelled to Beijing to see the hand over of Hong Kong before venturing west to through China to Tibet and then south east back go Hong Kong and finally home to America.
Continue reading “Review: ‘Double Happiness’ by Tony Brasunas”
I’m hoping to see this film at some point so it’s good to hear it’s an accurate portrayal of the times. It makes a pleasant change.
It’s the first time I’ve taken part in a virtual book tour, but it’s been a pleasure. Book review to follow, on 31st January.
2nd Edition
2014
Cambridge University Press
Continue reading “Review: ‘Nearest Star’ by Leon Golub and Jay M. Passachoff”
John Murray (Publishers)
2013
It’s possible I was bawling just a little when I finished this book.
I saw a tweet from Simon and Schuster yesterday afternoon asking for reviewers. The book in question is ‘Bad Santas’ by Paul Hawkins. It arrived this afternoon.
‘The Bride’ by Kacie Taylor. Ms Taylor contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing her take on the ‘beauty and the beast’ fairy tale. Of course I love to read new authors and I was intrigued by the premise so I said yes. So far I’m enjoying the story. I will post a review once I’ve finished the novel.
Continue reading “And my next review will be”
New York University Press
11th February 2014
Written by a scholar of the African diaspora, Slavery’s Exiles discusses the existence or otherwise of marronage among North American slaves. The maroons of Jamaica and Suriname have been extensively studied while evidence for maroons in the US (and the North American colonies before the War of Independence) is limited. This book looks at the evidence provided not only by former slaves interviewed in the early twentieth century, but at newspaper reports, court reports and legislation from the seventeenth century onwards.
Continue reading “Review: ‘Slavery’s Exiles; The story of the American Maroons’ by Sylviane A Diouf”
Selected and Edited by Thomas Pinney
Cambridge University Press
11 December 2013
This is a collection of mostly unfamiliar poems by Rudyard Kipling, culled from a variety of sources.
Continue reading “Review: 100 Poems Old and New by Rudyard Kipling”
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