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Oooh, you make me live (CBR12Bingo: Friendship)

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua

July 23, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I’m sure that tagging this as fiction and non fiction seems confusing to anyone who has not read this book. It’s a strange one, but a damn good one. The first dozen or so pages are 100% non-fiction, devoted to the life of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” Lord Byron and the absolute last person in the world who should have married him, a woman who then raised Ada alone and kept her from following in her father’s […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ada Lovelace, cbr12bingo, Charles Babbage, friendship, Lord Byron, Sydney Padua

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:82 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ada Lovelace, cbr12bingo, Charles Babbage, friendship, Lord Byron, Sydney Padua ·
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Thrilling Adventure, Math and History! – Lovelace and Babbage have never been so exciting

April 14, 2017 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

A friend gave me this book for my birthday last October.  At the time I didn’t look too closely at it and assumed it was a typical nonfiction book.  While I am interested in the subject, non-fiction tends to be lower on my priority list, so it got shelved with my TBR and we moved on to cake and board games.  Last month I wasn’t able to write my review for The Bear and the Nightingale right away so thought it would be best to read something […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Dome'Loki, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Non-Fiction, Sydney Padua

Dome'Loki's CBR9 Review No:8 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Dome'Loki, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Non-Fiction, Sydney Padua ·
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