Robert Harris
My KYD Reads … or: Harry Potter, and What Else I read in March 2018
A big thank you to Moonlight Reader for yet another fun, inventive BookLikes game! I had a wonderful time, while also advancing — though with decidedly fewer new reads than I’d origianlly been planning — my two main reading goals for this year (classic crime fiction and books written by women). Harry Potter – The […]
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Robert Harris: Imperium
The first part of Harris’s Cicero trilogy, and both a truly fast-paced and a well-researched piece of historical writing; covering Cicero’s ascent from young Senator to Praetorian and, eventually (and against all the odds), Consul. The first part of the book deals at length with one of Cicero’s most famous legal cases, the prosecution of […]
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KYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Robert Harris: Imperium for The Hob, District 12
Robert Harris’s Imperium has white lettering (and the lower part of the cover is black). In addition, the holders of Ancient Rome’s public offices — including this book’s protagonist, Marcus Tullius Cicero — had to organize a variety of games to entertain the citizens, so the words “game” and “games” appear repeatedly throughout the text. […]
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