Congratulations DensleyBlair! A Biography of Great Men is an excellent AAR.
Thanks Zorro! Your comments are always greatly valued.
Just got to catch up Densley, but I will soon
I look forward to it.
Great to see an excellent AAR gaining some award-related attention!
Why thank you very much! It's always good to have followers of AARs able to provide comments based on knowledge of the period about which you're writing, and I very much enjoy the debates those comments sometimes spark. Thanks a lot, Tanzhang.
Congratulations! It's very well deserved for a fantastic AAR
Thanks a lot, Mondo! It's always old to see you in thread.
Great AAR, I'm looking forward to getting caught up with it. Congratulations on a well deserved award.
I look forward to it too. Thanks again, Seel.
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to go and check out ABoGM as a result of this award. I hope to continue to see many of you going forward.
Before I hand over the award, though, I have to make a couple of apologies:
First, sorry for doing this on Monday rather than Sunday – half of it is me selfishly wanting to keep the award for a full week. The other half is to do with things out of my control.
Secondly, usually when handing on an award I try and select someone or an AAR from another section of AARland. Sorry, that won't be the case this week – but I feel that I would be doing our next incumbent a disservice by doing so.
The AAR I have chosen deals with, I think it is fair to say, a relatively clichéd period of Victoria's history, and yet it is this element that heightens my respect for both the AAR and the author. With this AAR, we get a level of depth that I have seldom seen in similarly themed pieces before, with just the right balance between giving us readers all of the juicy details and moving along with some expedition. Not to mention the prospect of a poltical focus; politics basically being the reason why I love Vicky so much.
Despite this, the updates are nicely paced and concise – not too verbose, but satisfying enough that one is able to comment after each installment. It is relatively wordy (especially for an AAR of its subject matter) though this is something that, as anyine who has read any of my work will be able to tell you, I enjoy. It hasn't been running for too long, so there is still plenty of time to sign up for the ride – something which I encourage all of you who haven't yet done so to do.
Please give your very warmest contrafibularities to Jape, for the brilliant
A House United: America in the Civil War and Beyond!