Book Review: How to be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke

Title: How to be a Renaissance Woman Author: Jill Burke Dates read: 30/03/25 – 21/04/25 Rating 3/5 Publisher: Wellcome Collection Number of pages: 338 Fiction or non-fiction: nonfiction Subject or genre: art, feminism, history Book blurb: Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have …

A Quick Catch Up

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 …

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 …