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If you like American Revolution historical fiction that is written in diary/letter form along with historical accounts (snippets of newspaper articles and the like), and portions of historically-significant works, you will like Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore’s Blindspot. This is one of the books from…

Early American Portraiture: Review of Blindspot

October 28, 2016

ESS Headquarters, Elko, Nevada, US Renee stepped aside, letting a buxom blonde leave Brandon’s office. A coy slightly mocking face made Brandon smirk in return. “Can’t be that bad, can it?” She sat down on the brown leather sofa that was next to the window…

Child of Darkness: Chapter Five

March 15, 2015

A lot of revolutions start with the noblest of intentions. The French Revolution was no different. “After all, the Americans had done it, hadn’t they?” Robespierre asked (not from the book). As Lafayette and countless others would learn before the bloody Reign of Terror would…

Previewing A Dystopian World: A Review of Madame Tussaud

January 24, 2015

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In the recent past, the Asian empire, from China, to Thailand, to Malaysia, to Japan, to South Korea and finally to North Korea, to name a few of the countries, have been in the news. To understand, for example, what has led to the China- North…

Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600: A Review

April 1, 2014