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Howard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Howard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Howard M. Wiseman
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Arthur's dog Cabal is the oldest named of all of Arthur's companions in legend, in fact. Dating from the 9th century "Wonders of Britain" compsed in W
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He was disappointed to hear that Drustan had not survived the voyage home and surprised to learn that the Saxons had been pushed back far enough that many had abandoned their colonies and returned to Germania.
What, in the one year of Arthur’s absence. Why didn’t Arthur achieve that?
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Alastair's review
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The Last of the Romans (The Last of the Romans #1):
"Imagine a Simon Scarrow or Bernard Cornwell novel...now take away any character development or sensible plot. Add in minor characters who only seem to exist to die bravely defending the brooding (and fairly unlikable) hero, a main character who singl"
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The Last of the Romans (The Last of the Romans, #1):
"Too much action for me, never a letup; I prefer something a little slower-moving. Ambrosius Aurelius journeys across Gaul overcoming many obstacles and he and his men finally commandeer a ship to sail to Britannia. Ambrosius himself, while a stalwart"
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“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.”
― 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
― 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
“But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu’d—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.”
― Tristram Shandy (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #26]
― Tristram Shandy (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #26]
