This book’s title is Cities That Shaped the Ancient World and is edited by John Julius Norwich. This book covers in every part of the world from the near east to the Americas. The author uses descriptions of these cities from various people. It was interesting read, but did nothing to advance my understanding of history.
I read the paperback edition of this book. The review by Peter Gordon is exactly right. The book is a collection of brief city-by-city essays that are very short. As I had said above, it was interesting but did nothing to advance my understand of history.
There is a short review of this book on Good Reads. There is a good review of this book on Asian Review of Books by Peter Gordon. Most of the reviews are the same as they seem all to be coming from bookshops.
Norwich talks on YouTube about Venice. There are no videos on this book.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2024
The Mending by Lynne Golding
This book’s full title is The Mending, Beneath the Alers Series. Lynne Golding has a site here. Her twitter account is here with a twitter name of @lynne_golding.
I very much enjoyed this book. You can learn about some Canadian History while reading about Jessie Stephens and her life in Brampton. The book is part fiction and part stories from the author’s Great Aunt Jessie. What I enjoyed most in reading this book was about Jessie attending Victoria College.
Lynne Golding talks about this book at Open Book. There are some nice reviews on Amazon . Scroll to the end of bottom of the page. Canadian Federation of University Women in had Lynne Golding as a speaker at a Aurora-Newmarket meeting. There is an interview with Lynn Golding by Steve Paikin via TVO today.
Lynne Golding speaks about this series on her site. Her Facebook page is here. She has a number of videos on her site.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
I very much enjoyed this book. You can learn about some Canadian History while reading about Jessie Stephens and her life in Brampton. The book is part fiction and part stories from the author’s Great Aunt Jessie. What I enjoyed most in reading this book was about Jessie attending Victoria College.
Lynne Golding talks about this book at Open Book. There are some nice reviews on Amazon . Scroll to the end of bottom of the page. Canadian Federation of University Women in had Lynne Golding as a speaker at a Aurora-Newmarket meeting. There is an interview with Lynn Golding by Steve Paikin via TVO today.
Lynne Golding speaks about this series on her site. Her Facebook page is here. She has a number of videos on her site.
An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.
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