Africa

Book Review: Those of Us About to Die by Michael Woodhead

The story is certainly captivating, but not as focused on the most interesting characters. The narrative does flow, and it’s…

2 years ago

Book Review: The Good Kings by Kara Cooney

The Good Kings by Kara Cooney analyzes how systems of absolute power traps its citizens to make them believe they…

3 years ago

Book Review: The Chef, the Bird and the Blessing by Andrew J.H. Sharp

Tells the story of Chef Mozzy Mlantushi, working on a safari tour, who dreams of becoming a chef in a…

3 years ago

Book Review: How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

How Beautiful We Were is, in a word, fatalistic. The villagers are fighting a lost cause,– The David vs. Goliath…

3 years ago

Book Review: War of Shadows by Gershom Gorenberg

The book does a great job to taking a complex, and messy, narrative and shaping it for the reader to…

3 years ago

Book Review: Pilgrim Days: From Vietnam to the SAS by Alastair MacKenzie

Pilgrim Days: From Vietnam to the SAS by Alastair MacKenzie is a memoir of the author who served in the…

3 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen (17 April, 1883 – 7 September, 1962) was a Danish author who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen.

4 years ago

Book Review: American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

American Spy tells of Marie Mitchell works as an FBI intelligence officer, but cannot break into the old boys club…

5 years ago

Book Review: Hard Dog to Kill by Craig Holt

Stan Mullens, together with his partner Frank Giordano, is an American mercenary who sees himself as a scholar/soldier who likes…

6 years ago

Book Review: Silence in the Desert by David Longridge

Silence in the Desert by David Longridge - 3 school friends join the French Foreign Legion, the The Royal Air…

6 years ago

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