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William Roe Polk: Understanding Iraq (Paperback, Harper Perennial) 4 stars

Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into …

Review of 'Understanding Iraq' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A quick read and concise overview of Iraqi history. The author does a good job showing how history can repeat. Of course reading this 20 years after it was published, and knowing how it's turned out makes the last chapter rather sad.

Review of 'West of the Moon' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

And they all lived happily… wait, what?

That’s how fairy tales end, right? Well, not this one. That isn’t to say it isn’t a satisfying, and even happy ‘ending’ for our protagonists, just that the ending you think you might get when you finish book 1 is probably not even close to where they end up.

The intertwining of the stories of our protagonists, as each chapter jumps back and forth between them, moving the story along feels natural, but also frustrating at times as I wanted to know what was gonna happen with this character next! But that’s the best sort of frustrating, and the sign of a good storyteller, when you’re left wanting more.

And I do want more.

Thankfully while this is the conclusion of this duology, and you could stop here, there are so many more stories that can… and need to be told, both about …