Half-Blood Blues by Esi EdugyanSomewhat ironically, I'm really bad at book summaries, so I apologize for not doing this justice. The book follows a group of jazz musicians living in pre-war Berlin as they try to deal with their own intragroup problems in an atmosphere of growing intolerance and tension. Edugyan does a remarkable job of exploring ( Read more... )

I just finished reading The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks! Whew, what a title. The book itself is about as interesting as the title itself, by which I mean it was actually very dry. It's also full of all these DELETED passages, because the CIA got their hands on the book before publication. Apparently most ( Read more... )