You may have noticed the Bernard Fall book review I posted earlier this morning was not new as of June 2025 or any other recent moment. Indeed, I wrote it near the end of 2021. I posted it here today for a few reasons though, among them book reviews have historically been my most popular …
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Street Without Joy by Bernard B. FallMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent. Superb! Everything I had heard about it. If you're a student of, or even just interested in, the French debacle in trying to recolonize Indochina, as well as subsequently the failure of the US, particularly in my opinion, by apparently never conducting …
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Yesterday I published a post titled My 2024 [Belated] Goodreads Reading Challenge. It was basically half of my annual end-of-year posts on my Goodreads reading efforts for each year. It focused on my 2024 Reading Challenge (I surpassed my goal of 200 books by reading 408 last year.) but I still have to post the …
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Every year I write an end-of-year post about my annual Goodreads Reading Challenge and the report titled My Year in Books. I think I've been doing this since about 2012 or 2013. This year was the first time I didn't, even though I had participated as I have every year. And frankly it's been bugging the hell out …
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The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a book of great interest for me as John of Gaunt is purportedly my 17th great grandfather with a descent going through a number of ancestors I'm intimately familiar with as …
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