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Ian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ian C. Racey
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A Traitor's Loyalty: A Novel
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2012
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3 editions
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History without the history
Lately I’ve been watching the Spanish soap opera Velvet, which is available (subtitled) on Netflix. It’s set in the late 1950s in a prestigious Madrid fashion boutique, and it’s strongly reminiscent of shows like Mad Men or the BBC’s The Hour (sometimes I refer to it as Los Hombres Locos) in that it presents a sophisticated, elegant period backdrop against which the characters pursue
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| A bit of a jumble, but with Sharpe fighting in a delightful alliance at the end. I wonder how long Cornwell had wanted to bring about that particular situation. | |
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| Excellent. Looks at all angles, never gets blinded by a desire to lionize the Founding Fathers or Continental Army. Full of primary sources. | |
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| The sort of scholastic work where each chapter opens with an explicitly labeled introduction and ends with an explicitly labeled conclusion. It covers extensively a topic that really doesn’t get covered at all anywhere else, including a few very inte ...more | |
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| The most interesting thing about this was the window into social attitudes in 1932, with the main character experiencing the constant microaggressions of being Jewish in Europe at the time, and a significant character being openly and matter-of-factl ...more | |
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| Pretty solid. Set entirely in the two years before WW2 broke out. It does get a bit tiresome trying to remember if a given minor character comes from a previous novel or not. Furst is trying to include climaxes at the end of his novels and they … don ...more | |
