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Redcoats , los presidentes, and medieval making-merry
Alllrighty, short rounds time, featuring: British Soldiers, American War; The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women; and The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Secret Fraternity. First up, British Soldiers, American War. This is an interesting volume in which … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged American Revolution, Britain, Europe, Hail to the Chief, history, Medieval, memoir, military, sexuality, social history, women
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The Dirty Life
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love© 2011 Kristin Kimball287 pages When Kristin Kimball left her cozy confines in the big city to interview a passionate young farmer in the sticks, she had no idea her life … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged agrarianism, animal domestication, community, farming, food, labor, localism, marriage and family, memoir, participation, simple living
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The Human Experiment
The Human Experiment: Two Years and 20 Minutes Inside Biosphere 2© 2006 Jane Poynter384 pages From this patch of desert in sunny Oracle, Arizona, eight Americans are beginning the trip of a lifetime. Divided into two tribes and locked into … Continue reading
Laughing all the Way to the Mosque
Laughing all the Way to the Mosque: The Misadventures of a Muslim Woman© 2016 Zarqa Nawaz240 pages ‘A hit religious comedy show about Muslims worshipping in a broken-down mosque, within a broken-down church, living in a tiny town in the … Continue reading
Sid Meier’s Memoir
Sid Meier’s Memoir: A Life in Computer Games© 2020 Sid Meier304 pages Dear readers, I cannot tell you how much of my life has been spent in worlds of Sid Meier’s making – discovering his talent for historically-grounded but still-compelling … Continue reading
Afternoons with Harper Lee
Afternoons with Harper Lee© 2022 Wayne Flynt256 pages Recently I had the pleasure of listening to historian Dr. Wayne Flynt speak at my local library, drawing from his new book, Afternoons with Harper Lee. As with Mockingbird Songs, a … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews
Tagged Alabama, American South, biography, Harper Lee, memoir, Southern Literature, Wayne Flynt
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Marine Combat Correspondent
Marine Combat Correspondent: World War 2 in the Pacific© 1999 Sam Stavisky344 pages Sam Stavisky was a reporter for the Washington Post on December 7th, 1941, when he and the world bore witness to Japan’s bloody ambition to rule the … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1940s, history, memoir, Pacific War, US Marine Corps, WW2
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It’s not so lonely out in space: three to celebrate Apollo 11
Fifty-two years ago, men from Earth touched down on the moon and inaugurated a new era in human exploration. I usually re-watch From the Earth to the Moon (a Tom Hanks docu-drama that is in my “Everything is burning but … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews, science fiction
Tagged biography, H.G. Wells, human space flight, memoir, Star Trek, vintage SF, William Shatner
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Waco: A Survivor’s Story
A Place Called Waco: A Survivor’s Story © 1999 David Thibodeau 381 pages On April 19th, 1993, the arrogance of power was made obvious when scores of people were killed in a outstandingly incompetent, if not deliberately malicious, attempt to … Continue reading
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