Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq - Thomas E. Ricks The Twentieth Century: A People's History - Howard Zinn The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years - Sonia Shah

It is the 8th day of Spring Break and I (and the kids) are still alive. Three more days...just three more days.

 

Anyway, I finished Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks. It was very good and critical look at OIF (of which I served in) but the book stopped around the end of 2005 while the war went on another three years and gave rise to ISIL/ISIS and the continuing mess that is the region, so it can't be read as a definitive source on the war. Recommend.

 

I am at the 70% mark in The Twentieth Century, reading one chapter a day (at 35-50 pages per chapter, it's A LOT). I should be done with it by the middle of next week. Since it is my Snakes and Ladders book choice, I hope to be done a bit sooner so that I can roll the die and move. But my focus for the weekend and next week is to get The Fever done and back to the library.