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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
American Dreams is the sequel to Homeland, a novel in which John Jakes explores the immigrant experience in this country. In Homeland, young Paul Crown leaves Germany to seek a better life […]
With three kids in the car, I was going to have to be careful what I chose for our trip to Florida. Although other titles looked intriguing, I settled on Mount Vernon […]
Set during the 1920s and 1930s, this novel follows events begun in the novel How Few Remain, through The Great War series, and in the previous novel in this series, American Empire: […]
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 […]
Heaven and Hell is the final book in the trilogy about the Civil War by John Jakes. In the series he introduced us to the Main family from South Carolina and the […]
Written by C.S. Forester and Patrick HarbinsonDirected by Andrew Grieve Although, in my opinion, this story is the weakest in the series of Horatio Hornblower telefilms produced for British television and the […]
This novel is the second in Jakes’ Civil War trilogy. Love and War picks up the lives of the Main and Hazard families right where North and South left off. The Mains […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.