J. Colville-Hanson

Terrible

Revisado: 08-25-24

This is a terrible book. More personal stories about harvesting peas and drying his son off with a towel with a few facts you can find from Wikipedia than any real science

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Great story, so so writing

Revisado: 11-06-23

Kudos to the author for telling this story Solid research so I give him a pass that the writing was so so and a little cliche

The first narrator almost made me want to quit- she sounded like she was reading to a kindergarten class. Second narrator better but corny Third - eh. I’m just used to better narrators

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New look at Augustine

Revisado: 10-23-23

Interesting look at some women in Augustine’s life and times - his mother, his mistress and Empress Justine (none of whom were queens but okay..,)

This was a new look at Augustine and shows him with a more positive opinion of women and marriage than he usually gets credit for.

Also a less positive view of Ambrose who was more of a political player (and sometime asshole) than he is usually portrayed.

The audiobook is free on Audible

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Great Translation

Revisado: 10-20-23

This is a great translation. Really brings the story alive. And to listen to it in a woman’s voice—chef’s kiss!

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Narrator so bad I couldn’t finish

Revisado: 10-03-23

I thought I liked this author but the reader was so bad I could not finish the book

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Wish he’d stuck Sarah’s Story

Revisado: 09-21-23

This was pretty interesting but I wish he would have stuck to his focus on the story from the perspective of Sarah Graves because that was the interesting part.

Instead he’s suddenly decide he was writing a science textbook on the effects of snow blindness or hypothermia or hunger and go on and on ..,

Then he decided to veer of into American history of morticians and Christmas and how Robert E. Lee’s family celebrated Christmas

Or maybe it was a book about psychology and the effects trauma and stress

Like did he think this was a high school essay with a minimum word requirement.

No book can be all the things and by getting sidetracked by all the things it too away from what could have been a good story from one family member’s perspective.

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Throwing shade at Marie Antoinette

Revisado: 09-09-23

I just have to say his blaming the French Revolution on Marie Antoinette, saying “even if she didn’t say ‘Let them eat cake’ she thought it” WITH NO EVIDENCE OR SOURCES to back it up kinda made me suspect his bias and everything he said,

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Very interesting and comprehensive

Revisado: 12-20-22

Very interesting and comprehensive I really don’t have the required 15 words though. I mean I said what I said

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The narration is awful

Revisado: 07-10-21

Just because you are a good writer doesn’t mean you can read. I couldn’t stand more than 5 minutes of his droning. Going try to get a refund. Awfully

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Engrossing Tale of

Revisado: 08-27-20

Magical telling of the historical event of the Glencoe massacre and a legend of a witch, Corrag who warned the MacDonalds to flee.
The story is told by alternating first person points of view, by Coragg herself mostly as she speaks of her life to Charles Leslie, a real person who supported the Jacobite uprisings and then his view through his letters to his wife.

The style took me a while to get used to but once I did I was as drawn into the world entirely. It’s marvelous story telling. I wept through most of it, not just for the sadness in the tale but the real themes of love and grace and goodness.

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