Written by Diana Gabaldon and Ronald D. MooreDirected by John Dahl I have to be honest and say that when this series was first proposed, I didn’t have much confidence that they’d […]
Series Rewatch – Outlander: Season 1, Episode 1 – Sassenach
Book Review: Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
One of the great peripheral characters in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series is that of Lord John Grey. He is first introduced to the story when Jamie Fraser languishes in a Scottish prison […]
Book Review: Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
Fans of author Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series will immediately recognize the character of Lord John Grey. He’s a British Lord who pops in and out of the story at various times. Here, […]
Book Review – Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith – Abraham Lincoln: Action Hero
Back when this book was made into a movie, I made it a point to find and read this before seeing the movie. Since I like historical fiction, the idea of a […]
Book Review: 11/22/63 by Stephen King – Will Re-Writing History Bring on a Fairy Tale?
Of all the “what ifs” in history, probably none looms larger than what if John F. Kennedy had lived. His Presidency was a tumultuous one that came to be highly regarded due […]
Book Review: Hornblower During the Crisis – C.S. Forester’s Last Novel, Incomplete
When writer C.S. Forester penned his series around the character Horatio Hornblower, he didn’t write the books in chronological order. The first three novels were about mid-point through the series, and then […]
Book Review: Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester – Horatio Hornblower Sails in Central America
The Horatio Hornblower series, written by C.S. Forester, was written much the same way the Star Wars series was. Forester wrote Beat to Quarters first, and it ended up being the sixth […]
Book Review: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn – Great Historical Fiction
Every now and then a book surprises me with how much I end up enjoying it. One of those books was The Rose Code. In fact, I’d have to say it’s the […]
Book Review: My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
I was very surprised at how much I learned from this fictionalized account of the life of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, wife of Alexander Hamilton. I generally enjoy history, and this book is […]
John Jakes Brings the Immigration Experience to Life in His Novel Homeland
In the Afterword of his novel, Homeland, John Jakes explains that he purposely had this novel pick up in the year 1891, the same year that the final novel of his Kent […]
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