Book

I'm still reading at a snail's pace these days, but just got through a book I really enjoyed and recommend: A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry. It's basically about Irish soldiers, and one in particular, fighting in World War I (I know all wars are horrific, but at least in print there seems to be something about WWI that makes it uniquely awful). At times it was hard to keep up not only some of the Irish expressions, but also the tangled history of unionists vs. nationalists (central to the story) in Ireland at the time. The book was often brutal and sad, but sometimes quite funny, and in any event beautifully written (which sounds strange to say for such a bleak topic).