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An avid reader of just about anything, though I tend to enjoy sci-fi, fantasy, and history the most. Also a writer, thinking about trying to get my first book published.
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Tolomere rated Game Wizards: 3 stars
Game Wizards by Jon Peterson
The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by …
Tolomere rated The Buntline special: 2 stars
Tolomere rated A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: 5 stars
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on …
Tolomere rated Battle Cry of Freedom: 4 stars
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson (Oxford History of the United States)
Tolomere rated The Midnight Library: 5 stars
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Nora’s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on …
Tolomere rated Bourbon Empire: 3 stars
Tolomere rated War before civilization: 3 stars
War before civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley, Lawrence H. Keeley
War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford University Press, 1996) is a book by Lawrence H. Keeley, …
Tolomere rated The Storm Before the Storm: 5 stars
The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding in 509 …
Tolomere rated The butchering art: 5 stars
Tolomere rated A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: 3 stars
Tolomere rated Termination Shock: 4 stars
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock takes readers on a thrilling, chilling visit to our not-too-distant future – a world in which the greenhouse …
Tolomere rated Guns of John Moses Browning: 4 stars
Tolomere rated The Bark Covered House; Or, Back In The Woods Again: 5 stars
The Bark Covered House; Or, Back In The Woods Again by William Nowlin
This memoir was originally written in 1876, and vividly describes the struggle of Nowlin’s parents to carve a living out …