in the midst of life we are in death, etc.
Hey so if a character who has previously made some questionable to downright terrible choices finally makes a good choice, that's character growth, not being OOC, right? Especially if it's an AU? Asking for a friend... *cough* (the sad part is how MANY characters that I write about that this could apply to.)
Anyway! No one wants to hear my tale of commuting woe, or how my specialty coffee beverage at Starbucks now costs 11 cents more than it did previously (11 cents! I feel like Bayliss and Pembleton might have something to say about that), though I think they added an extra shot this morning that I didn't ask for, so let's get right to books.
What I've just finished
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge, by Antony Beevor, which I think is the best of the three books by him that I've read. It doesn't bog down or come off as too dry, or maybe it's because I have more familiarity with this part of the war that it felt like a much easier read than the D-Day book or the overview of the whole war book by Beevor. (I still think Max Hastings' Inferno: The World at War is the best overall book on WWII that I've read.) It could have used even more maps (and the maps that were included could have been a little clearer/easier to read) but I was glad it had any at all, given that sometimes it appears the ebooks get published without them!
Anyway, this is a mostly high level account of the Battle of the Bulge, and most of the generals on both sides don't come off very well, though of the Allies, Montgomery gets the worst of it, and Bradley comes off pretty poorly too. Patton is Patton, so at least there you know what you're getting there. *hands* I did kind of feel for Ike for having to deal with all these assholes and their egos. It's a pretty quick and compelling read, and Dick Winters gets quoted a few times, so that's a bonus.
What I'm reading now
Just as I was finishing up Ardennes 1944, the library came through with The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth, so now I'm reading that. It's (creative?) nonfiction about a serial killer in Austin, Texas in 1885. I'm not very far in but it's interesting so far.
What I'm reading next
Unless something else pops up from the library, I don't know. I am looking forward to my upcoming week of 'vacation' at my brother's house where I can sit on his deck and read, so there's a bunch of things I've loaded on the iPad, but I never know until I finish the thing I'm reading atm.
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Anyway! No one wants to hear my tale of commuting woe, or how my specialty coffee beverage at Starbucks now costs 11 cents more than it did previously (11 cents! I feel like Bayliss and Pembleton might have something to say about that), though I think they added an extra shot this morning that I didn't ask for, so let's get right to books.
What I've just finished
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge, by Antony Beevor, which I think is the best of the three books by him that I've read. It doesn't bog down or come off as too dry, or maybe it's because I have more familiarity with this part of the war that it felt like a much easier read than the D-Day book or the overview of the whole war book by Beevor. (I still think Max Hastings' Inferno: The World at War is the best overall book on WWII that I've read.) It could have used even more maps (and the maps that were included could have been a little clearer/easier to read) but I was glad it had any at all, given that sometimes it appears the ebooks get published without them!
Anyway, this is a mostly high level account of the Battle of the Bulge, and most of the generals on both sides don't come off very well, though of the Allies, Montgomery gets the worst of it, and Bradley comes off pretty poorly too. Patton is Patton, so at least there you know what you're getting there. *hands* I did kind of feel for Ike for having to deal with all these assholes and their egos. It's a pretty quick and compelling read, and Dick Winters gets quoted a few times, so that's a bonus.
What I'm reading now
Just as I was finishing up Ardennes 1944, the library came through with The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth, so now I'm reading that. It's (creative?) nonfiction about a serial killer in Austin, Texas in 1885. I'm not very far in but it's interesting so far.
What I'm reading next
Unless something else pops up from the library, I don't know. I am looking forward to my upcoming week of 'vacation' at my brother's house where I can sit on his deck and read, so there's a bunch of things I've loaded on the iPad, but I never know until I finish the thing I'm reading atm.
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/855692.html.
people have commented there.