Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
After another month off in my series, and back I am with my reading suggestions in what is a semi-hiatus summer. I took on a very high-intensity project at work that has taken most of my time in the last…
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After Medieval history in November (rewarded by S2 of Knightfall just landed on Netflix, something that makes me cringe but I can’t void watching it. Review to follow shortly), this festive month I’m all for entertainment, and therefore, back to…
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This month I am slightly late to announce my three selected books, but the good thing is that I have already started reading them. Heck, in one case I have actually almost finished, and for a reason: the book is…
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In these difficult (in the sense of super-busy) days at work, it is never an easy task to find time to read a new book (not related to the daily job, that is). So I’ve decided to pick, at the…
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If you believed (as I did) that historical fiction is by nature more the domain of long novels than short stories (or flash fiction), be ready to be surprised. As a matter of fact, there are a few publishers around…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE…
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I have already talked about this interesting and well-researched historical series on the Roman Empire, which devoted the first season to Emperor Commodus (you remember Gladiator, right? I reviewed S1 here) and the second to Julius Ceasar (here‘s the review)….
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I was since the beginning not that keen to watch this movie, for a fairly good reason. Having researched the historical period and the family Mary belonged to (the Guise) for a long time, I was always unhappy with the…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that…
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