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Rating: 5/5 Authors: Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot This is a very nice graphic novel outlining the life of a fictional suffragette Sally. While the character is fictional, the story is based on real suffragettes and an accurate historical narrative. There were indeed many working-class women who contributed towards the plight of…
Author: Andrew Hastie Rating: 5/5 Get a book on Amazon Do you know what is the best thing about this book? That is not only one book but a series of books. Therefore, now when I finished reading the Anachronist I don’t have to take a few days to decide which #timetravel book to read…
Author: Callie Langridge Rating: 5/5 If I could time travel, visiting suffragettes would be on the top of my list. I would absolutely love to meet some of those amazing women who fought for all of us, and because of whom I can be an academic today and have opportunities women of the past did…
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor Mark: 5/5 This is an inspiring true story of William Kamkwambawho (Maxwell Simba) who was eager to learn in Malawi and who ultimately helped his village by building a wind turbine after reading about it in a library book. He read that this is how electricity comes to the USA and insisted…
I already wrote about good series to watch with a time-travelling theme (https://martinatopic.com/2018/01/06/timetravel-top-series-to-watch-1/) and this is the second part of this blog series, with two more series I thought would be of interest to time travel lovers such as myself. OUTLANDER Availability: Amazon Prime This is an interesting series with a time travelling theme. The…
Director: Fab 5 Freddy Rating: 5/5 I saw some other films on legalisation of cannabis and therefore I am familiar with the narrative on who blocked legalisation and who made it illegal in the US in the first place. However, what I did not know is that cannabis originates from the Black community and that…
# 5/5 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott has been labelled as a masterpiece with a very good reason. The book is captivating and memorable, and this is what every writer wants to accomplish with their work but not all writers do. I am giving this book a 5-star rating for the above reasons and…