Marcus Aurelius - A Life (Review Posted)

Just wanted to post a brief note to say that Curled Up With a Good Book has posted my review of Frank McLynn's book, Marcus Aurelius: A Life.  This is an extremely interesting but horrendously tedious biography of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.  Aurelius, famous for his book of thought called Meditations, was a stoic philosopher who tried very hard to rule with his stoic philosophies.  It didn't always work.

Anyway, short summary.  I'm very happy I read the book, but boy was it hard to get through. Marcus was a fascinating man, and McLynn definitely captures that.  Unfortunately, he captures it in a rather dull fashion.

Give the review a look and you'll see what I mean.

Don Malarkey - Real American Hero

I love our military, and all of the men and women who are fighting for freedom or protecting our freedoms all over the world. Don Malarkey, author of Easy Company Soldier, is one of those heroes, and he's written a memoir of his time fighting during World War II. Made famous in the book (and then HBO mini-series) Band of Brothers, Don and his fellow paratroopers gallantly jumped into the dead of night behind the Normandy beaches, fought bravely in Holland during the ill-fated Operation Market Garden, and were surrounded in the freezing cold and winter snows of Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge.

Easy Company Soldier is a great read for anybody who has an interest in what it was like to be fighting, and to see your compatriots dying, during World War II. It's an excellent book, and my review of it can be found on Curled Up With a Good Book.