Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
First read in December 2004, reread in July 2017. I loved this book when I first read it. And loved the tv adaptation that came out last year1 so when Aarti...
14 August 2017
Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
ISBN: 9780007256778 book 6 in the Temeraire series There were few streets in the main port of Sydney which deserved the name, besides the one main thoroughfare, and even that bare...
6 March 2011
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
Book 3 in the Temeraire ISBN: 0345481305 ; Wikipedia entry ; aarti chapati I can’t say very much about the plot of this book without giving away plot details from Book...
17 December 2006
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Book 2 in the Temeraire series ISBN: 0345481291 ; Naomi Novik’s LJ ; Sandstorm Reviews In the first book of this series Novik introduced the slightly alternate Napoleonic world she had...
17 December 2006
An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099465760 Bab Childe, renowned beauty, is in Brussels along with many a fashionable person. Britain had been isolated by Napoleon’s earlier campaigns so many took the chance to travel and...
23 October 2006
Temeraire by Naomi Novik
ISBN: 0007219113 Book #1 of the Temeraire series, aka His Majesty’s Dragon. See also: Naomi Novik’s site; Library Thing William Laurence is Captain of the Reliant, an English ship, fighting the...
20 August 2006
The Brothers Grimm dir. by Terry Gilliam
Well, this’ll teach me not to keep offline copies of my reviews won’t it. The original had been eradicated from web-land, so my poor memory will have to come up with...
17 November 2005
Sharpe’s Sword by Bernard Cornwell
ISBN: 0002214105 All the usual Sharpe ingredients are present here: war, women, and treachery. This is the fourth in the series, or at least was the fourth book published. It isn’t...
20 October 2005
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