Category: Book Stuff

The Battle of Hastings. It should NOT have ended that way!

Posted on by Speesh in 1066, Blog Stuff, Book Stuff, Britain/England, Fiction, Historical Fiction

954 years of pain, ended

I’ve been reading Browning, Keats and William Wordsworth…well, Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree and Mississippi Blood – again

Posted on by Speesh in Audiobooks, Book Stuff, Fiction

I decided that as I had completed the Goodreads reading challenge (about the only thing I ever use Goodreads for (certainly not for recommendations or any of the groups, and the design! They really need to bring that into the 20th Century (yes, I said that deliberately)). Anyway, I decided that as I was on … Continue reading I’ve been reading Browning, Keats and William Wordsworth…well, Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree and Mississippi Blood – again →

Beowulf. Quite probably written down by just one person

Posted on by Speesh in Book Stuff

The opening page of Beowulf "This is the first step in taking an old debate and refreshing it with some new methodology."Madison Krieger, a postdoc in evolutionary dynamics at Harvard University While looking for something else, I ran up against this article on Ars Technica. As several books I’ve read in the last couple of … Continue reading Beowulf. Quite probably written down by just one person →

Bio-graphic

Posted on by Speesh in Book Stuff

I'm not going to say which book, just that this article may, or may not, have a relevance to a review recently posted. We can talk about the coincidence involved in its popping up in my Reddit feed this morning, at another time. Here's the article.