AMERICAN IDOL MANIA?
I have never watched “American Idol” nor have I been tempted to. From the beginning I deemed it too be beyond me and my interests… So six years went by and I found myself thinking: “Wait a minute. Isn’t it a bit hypocritical of me? How can I form opinions about something I haven’t quite [...]
JOHN JAKES’S “THE GODS OF NEWPORT”
I came upon this book purely by chance. I picked it up and, as usual in such situations, I read the back cover with all these raving reviews about it. Caught my interest enough to bring it home and read it. Oh what a disappointment that was! I haven’t read any of his books before [...]
ROMANOV MYSTERY SOLVED
For nine decades history buffs, royalists as well as all kinds of controversy theorists have been searching for the remains of the last two children (Alexei and Maria) of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II. Nicholas and his family were detained in 1917 when Bolshevik revolution swept the country and were shot by a firing squad in July 1918 in [...]