Tag: Historical Fiction

  • REVIEW of The Course of Honor, by Lindsey Davis

    REVIEW of The Course of Honor, by Lindsey Davis

    After finishing all twenty of Lindsey Davis’ Falco novels, I’ve moved on to some of her other historical fiction. Yesterday’s rainy afternoon brought me to the end of The Course of Honor, an early novel by Davis. Vespasian, the miserly and curmudgeonly emperor who was in love with assigning Marcus Didius Falco thankless tasks, is…

  • REVIEW of True Grit, by Charles Portis

    True Grit is the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen year old girl from Arkansas who sets out to avenge the murder of her father by the outlaw Tom Chaney. She hires an ornery, old U.S. Marshal named Rooster Cogburn and follows him out into Indian territory to take Chaney captive and bring him back…