Month: May 2016

Fun Video Friday: Better Late Than Never by Ian Fletcher

Following is a nice preview video for a new Facebook friend of mine’s album released last year . . . really enjoyable music. Ian Fletcher plays in a Rolling Stones cover band (Stoned) and is an author/historian who has numerous books on the Peninsular War (Wellington vs. Napoléon). He also has a tour company specializing in…

Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell

Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell Epub Edition November 2006 ISBN: 9780061834219 HarperCollins Print Length: 324 pages Gallows Thief, set in 1817 London, is the first non-Sharpe book I have read by Bernard Cornwell and I enjoyed reading about an ex-soldier who was at Waterloo trying to solve a murder before an innocent man is hanged.…

2016 Reflections on the A to Z Challenge

The April 2016 A to Z Challenge is finished–my third A to Z Challenge to be completed–and I am happy about this because I often sign up for blogging challenges and then do nothing. I mean nothing–except for this challenge. I chose the topic of Ernest Hemingway (EMH) this year, after no set topic the…