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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Building Love in Books

May 29, 2018  
Building Love
Building Love
M.E. Tudor | 2018 | LGBTQ+, Romance
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is a sweet story that also deals with some difficult issues. The main characters were developed and their stories plausible. The fact that both had to deal with bullying from the same family might seem unbelievable to some readers but if you grew up as the poor kid in a small town it is very realistic. I was a bit surprised by the ages of the main characters because just reading the description made it seem they were adults. That said I will read more by Tudor and this is a quick, enjoyable read.
  
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Deborah (162 KP) rated Forensic Shakespeare in Books

Dec 21, 2018  
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Forensic Shakespeare
Quentin Skinner | 2014
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Forensic doesn't mean this is the Shakespeare equivalent of Silent Witness - this is a book looking at a group of Shakespeare's plays (and one poem), of which several are often considered 'problem' plays and the use of rhetoric within them. Skinner argues that this is deliberate and relates to a re-emerging interest in the Roman Rhetoricians in the Tudor period. The book is based on a series of lectures given by Skinner, so although as a casual reader I found it interesting, it was also hard work at times, particularly the opening chapters.
  
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Ross (3284 KP) rated The Boys Volume 11: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men in Books

Oct 31, 2019 (Updated Oct 31, 2019)  
The Boys Volume 11: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men
The Boys Volume 11: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men
Garth Ennis | 2012 | Comics & Graphic Novels
10
10.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
The is the end (or is it?!)
Here it is, what the series has been building to. This volume sees Butcher and Homelander move towards conflict, with Vought and The Boys hoping it is avoided/delayed.
Some epic twists in this story, as Homelander's plans to press superheroes' place in society start to unfold.
If you aren't humming the tenpole tudor song every time you pick this book up, there is something very wrong with you.
This should really have ended the story nicely with minimal doubt. However, there was another volume!
  
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ClareR (5846 KP) rated Tudor Dawn: Henry Tudor is ready to take the crown (The Tudor Series Book 1) in Books

Jul 2, 2019  
Tudor Dawn: Henry Tudor is ready to take the crown (The Tudor Series Book 1)
Tudor Dawn: Henry Tudor is ready to take the crown (The Tudor Series Book 1)
David Field | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
A really interesting history!
I really liked this - I’ve not read much about Henry Tudor, and everyone is always much more interested in Henry VIII and his promiscuous love life! Henry Tudor isn’t like his son at all. He may well have enjoyed the company of women, but David Field doesn’t play on that fact. I learnt so much about the history of Henry’s upbringing and subsequent escape into exile - and it is a vey male dominated book. We don’t see much of what his mother would have been doing, but we do learn about her hard work on his behalf.
I hadn’t realised that he’d been such a sickly child and that some of these problems followed him in to adulthood, or that he actually seemed to love his queen (although that may well be fictionalised - but I’d like to know!). This first book in the series takes up to Henry VII’s death. I think I will be reading the next in the series.
What I really liked about this book was that it’s more history than fiction. It’s not dry, academic type history though, and that’s what really drew me in.
Many thanks to Sapere Books for my copy of this book to read and honestly review. I really enjoyed it.