This is the first book that has moved me in a while. There are times when you come across a book that you become completely buried in…it is hard to break away even for a moment without finding out what will happen next. I felt this way about The Lotus Eaters yet in some ways [...]
Tag Archive > Vietnam
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
I read this book after reading (and loving) The Things They Carried. This book in some ways is very familiar and similar to that. Some of the same characters and similar stories are told. Yet they are told in a different format where reality and the main character’s hallucinations are mixed together. The quote at [...]
Where They Lay by Earl Swift
This is a book about a program that I had no idea even existed. The Central Identification Laboratory is a group that has been working to bring back the remains of soldiers that were killed during past conflicts…particularly the Vietnam War. The author details that there were approximately 78,000 American bodies that were never recovered [...]
The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon
I read this book several years ago and came across it at the library and decided to read it again. The Company You Keep is a book that I surprisingly enjoy. I say surprisingly because I am someone who likes a believeable story. I also like my fact to be fact and my fiction to [...]