MonkAunt Rocks

A late kudos and thanks to my fave MonkAunt (she knows who she is, after all she calls herself my favorite aunt). She raided my Amazon wishlist and, nose held tight, bought me two books that dovetail perfectly with The Monk's own political outlook and run roughly opposite to hers: Peter Schweizer's Victory -- the story of how Pres. Reagan won the Cold War by hastening the fall of the USSR; and The World Was Going Our Way -- Sergei Mitrokhin's memoir of KGB activities during the decline of the USSR. In addition, she bought me The Ghost Brigades, the follow-up to John Scalzi's fine debut space opera, Old Man's War.

Thanks MonkAunt.