So, the news in brief and some reading roundups are The not-COVID I had at the beginning of the month? Yeah, it turned out to actually be COVID. Li and I were both pretty sick for about 10 days, and completely exhausted for about another week. I still get fatigued …
Cassie Drive-by Mini-Reviews, the second
I keep telling myself I’m going to get better at writing proper reviews as and when I finish a book but… it’s not going very well. I’m still not completely confident at writing them, if I’m being honest, but I can already tell I’m improving when I look at the …
Drive-by Mini-Reviews
The only issue with reading multiple books at the same time, is that every now and again you manage to finish a whole collection of them all at the same time, which is what’s happened to me over the last few days. And, naturally, I was busy with school and …
Book Review: Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
Title: Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Author: Mary Beard Dates read: 27/12/2021 – 09/01/22 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Princeton University Press Number of pages: 392 Fiction or non-fiction: non-fiction Subject or genre: art history, history Book Blurb From the bestselling author of SPQR: A …
Book Review: Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare
Title: Twelfth Night, or What You Will Author: William Shakespeare Dates read: 03/01/22 – 04/01/22 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Number of pages: 140 Fiction or non-fiction: fiction Subject or genre: classics, play Book blurb: Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays in the modern …