Monthly Archives: March 2021

On Unexpected Audiences

Posted on March 13, 2021 by nathanalbright

I have spent a great deal of my time as a reader reading things that were not intended for me as an audience. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is an interesting thing. There are all kinds … Continue reading →

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Book Review: To Make Our World Anew

Posted on March 13, 2021 by nathanalbright

To Make Our World Anew: A History Of African Americans, edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis This book suffers from a problem that is common to many books of its kind, in that the authors of this book … Continue reading →

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Strictly Amateurs Please

Posted on March 12, 2021 by nathanalbright

For a variety of reasons, I have often wondered what sort of ideal society I would create as a sort of thought experiment to ponder the effects of certain choices within society. When I wrote a recent collection of connected … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Viscount Who Loved Me

Posted on March 12, 2021 by nathanalbright

The Viscount Who Loved Me, by Julia Quinn As a reader, it is simply baffling why it is that Quinn is considered to be a novelist of any great accomplishment when it comes to Regency romance. Having read a considerable … Continue reading →

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Book Review: When He Was Wicked

Posted on March 12, 2021 by nathanalbright

When He Was Wicked, by Julia Quinn This book is a particularly unsatisfying one. One of the things that makes this book unsatisfying is that it deals with two flight-prone people who, despite being good friends, are rather unsettling in … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction

Posted on March 11, 2021 by nathanalbright

Yesterday I read what was to me a deeply unsatisfying mystery from an author I generally enjoy but one whose worldview differences occasionally lead me to not appreciate her works as much as one might expect given the technical skill … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Summer Of Secrets

Posted on March 11, 2021 by nathanalbright

Summer Of Secrets, by Cora Harrison One of the things that this book provides the reader (and the characters), is truth, but it is not a pleasant truth, nor is it truth accompanied by justice or love or any other … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Season Of Darkness

Posted on March 11, 2021 by nathanalbright

Season Of Darkness, by Cora Harrison This is the first novel of two (that I know of) in the Gaslight mystery series set in Victorian London where the author has Charles Dickens and his friend Wilkie Collins, and their bumbling … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Eye Of The Law

Posted on March 11, 2021 by nathanalbright

Eye Of The Law, by Cora Harrison This book is one of the author’s mysteries set in sixteenth century Ireland [1], and it features her beloved Mara, Brehon of the Burren, and wife of the King of Thromond, solving another … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Never Cry Wolf

Posted on March 10, 2021 by nathanalbright

Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat I read this book on the recommendation of some friends of mine who saw and appreciated the 1983 movie adaptation of the book and thought that I would appreciate the book and its odd … Continue reading →

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