There is now a new Star Trek series that follows along from the Star Trek of my childhood. Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan and others came back in a new series and a second season is coming later this year. I never thought I’d see the day! At the…

This was one of those books I picked up from the library after reading just the blurb and looking at the front cover. Sometimes I enjoy the surprise of not researching a book at all. Since finishing it, I found that Corlett started writing again in 2011 while organising a…

A historical refresher for those like me that didn’t know — Let’s start with some history Reconstruction after the American Civil War began immediately in 1865 with Abraham Lincoln’s federal government imposing the Thirteenth Amendment to completely abolish slavery everywhere in the USA. While Northern states ratified it quickly, Lincoln convinced, cajoled and forced previously slave-owning states to ratify it before they would be granted aid…

This book, written for catharsis and therapy after a loss, makes for a fascinating read. — With the US Presidential elections approaching, I thought I’d refresh myself on what happened the last time, at least from the loser’s perspective. Hillary Rodham Clinton needs little introduction, and I felt some trepidation in reviewing her 2017 book, What Happened. I had followed the campaign from a distance and…

And they’ve been available for free all along — Wherever you are at this moment with the world as it is right now, I hope you are safe! But more than likely, wherever you are, many public institutions have been shut down because they aren’t seen as critical for life. …

This was a book I read on a friend’s recommendation, which is good because I would likely never have considered it in the first place. She said she’d heard good things about it, and I was looking for something to read anyway, so I dived in. The story settles around…

I used to burn through books. This stopped dead in the last year of school, when I stopped reading for pleasure and instead read for academics. And for my own pleasure, I swapped fiction books for the internet, watching television shows and films. Then after arriving at university in 2007…