I think I might need to start making a list of where I heard about certain books, that way once they are finally available at the e-library I will know why I wanted to read them in the first place. This book overall was fairly good, but it was strange an a bit manipulative and I wonder who told me to read it. “The Lonely Hearts Hotel” is a book set in and around the Great Depression and follows the lives of two orphans in […]
Would have been a lot more enjoyable if the heroine had gone to therapy at some point
3.5 stars Clara Morgan is legendary in the hospitality business for her ability to turn around pretty much any struggling hotel or guest house. When she’s not busy rebranding hotels, she runs marathons and other endurance races. What she rarely, if ever, does is stay in one place for very long. She has an apartment in Manhattan, but travels both domestically and abroad so often that she hardly ever has time to spend there. She never puts down roots anywhere and is careful not to […]
Army Chief of Staff Reading List #7
I looked forward to reading this book for a while. I really enjoyed another of the author’s books, The Generals, and its critical take on U.S. military leadership. Fiasco did not disappoint. Fiasco is the story of the early part of the Iraq War. There is a little background so that one understands the main players, namely Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, and then it jumps headfirst into a chronological discussion of the decisions made and their repercussions. Fiasco discusses how the war was basically preordained. The […]
A Personal View into Life under and after Apartheid
In an effort to try to get into Audio books, I crowd sourced the FB group for recommendations, and this had a large number of glowing recommendations. I quite liked it, and it helped that I had a three hour drive to complete when I started the book. I still struggle a bit with focusing on audiobooks when not in a car so I may have missed a few minor details but overall, I really enjoyed this book. I remember vaguely learning about South Africa […]