I really love the Iron Druid Chronicles and Scourged is a great finale. I’m hard pressed to think of many other series wherein we see so much growth in the main character. I find this especially true given the series is 9 books long plus several novellas and a collection of short stories. It seems as though it would be very easy to become formulaic and keep the main character exactly the same but Kevin Hearne does not do […]
This is how you end a trilogy!
I had a journey with this book. It first became available in October but I had several other books checked out, so I returned it and put it on hold again. I got it again in December right before a vacation, which in years past was great timing, but with two children, both under three at the time, vacations are no longer the time to get some reading accomplished. After this vacation, I had to return home earlier than the rest of my family and […]
Army Chief of Staff Reading List #11
The Sleepwalkers is one of the most thorough books I have recently read. It attempts to describe and make sense of the factors that led to WWI. The author attempts to discover the real causes beyond the notion that the war was inevitable. It’s a nearly impossible task that I think Christopher Clark does quite well. His findings do not provide a clear or simple answer but it is comprehensive and much better than the tired tropes we learned about in high school history class. […]
Army Chief of Staff Reading List #10
“America will remain the world’s only superpower for the foreseeable future. But what sort of superpower should it be? What role should America play in the world? What role do you want America to play?” Ian Bremmer is political scientist, perhaps best known for the “J-Curve.” The “J-Curve” describes the relationship between a country’s openness and it’s stability. In Superpower, Bremmer outlines three possibilities for the future of America and asks the readers to make up their own minds as to where they stand. He […]