Another incarnation of my blog. What can I say, I’ll keep reinventing until it feels right. For the most part, I have been tweeting any goings on, so it has been more 8 months since I last posted (on wordpress; 12 months on blogger [gasp!]).
Things have changed a bit, but I’d like to get back into posting longer form thoughts/ideas/etc.
Topic of the moment: Latest reads :-)
I finished reading the final installment of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) last night. It was every bit as thrilling as the previous two. Lisbeth survives the brutal attack (including being shot in the head) and then every protagonist joins in to save her. New antagonists are introduced and the story takes a bit of a twist, focusing on “the Section” and its conspiracy to shelter Zalachenko. After freeing herself, what is poor Lisbeth to do?
It’s a shame that Larsson is dead—he was an excellent story teller.
Now, I’m also very close to finishing Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed. Ahamed tells a biography of sorts—of some of the most influential financial leaders of the early 20th century. He takes the reader into the mind of the decision maker in order to expose the errors made from just before WWI through the beginning of WWII. Of particular note, Ahamed focuses extensively on the true cost of reparations levied against Germany after WWI. What happened in Germany certainly did not stay there—economies were interconnected, globalization had already begun.
The next book on my reading list is the latest Dan Brown mystery/thriller, Lost Symbol. (I waited until it came out on paperback to buy it.)
Until next time …
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