Tonight's drink:
The Effen Sexy
2 Parts Effen Black Cherry Vanilla
A splash of Simple Syrup
A splash of Creme de Cocoa (clear)
Shake and pour into cocoa rimmed martini glass
Garnish with a cherry
It's a nice nightcap and dessert rolled into one.
I just got done reading Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness by Brian Payton. It's fascinating book about bears and our relationship with them, their place in our mythology and their status in the wild. I've just started reading Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. I'm kind of a military history geek, and I'm reading this as a follow-up to Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam.
The author of Dereliction of Duty is one H.R. McMaster. At the time he wrote it he was a Major in the US Army. It's a scathing portrait of what happens when high ranking military officers cave in to political pressure, and I found plenty of parallels between the 1964 Chiefs of Staff and the Rumsfeld Pentagon.
H.R. McMaster is now a Colonel, and commands a unit in Iraq. He's been mentioned in a few accounts as being one of the US commanders who's doing the job right. He also figures prominently in Fiasco.
Once I'm done with Fiasco I've got to find some fiction to read. I've been on a non-fiction tear since May, and I need to quit. I'm open to suggestions.
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I just started Mark Haddon's new one called A Spot of Bother and 20 pages or so in, it's excellent. Or try Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions. Now can I have my drink / dessert?
YES.
Thanks for the recommendations. MizBubs just finished The Ruins by Scott Smith (he wrote A Simple Plan) and she seemed to like it.
All these choices now. How lucky I am.
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