What I’m Crunching — September 21, 2025
Listening to the audiobook version of this one and enjoying it so far. From the Goodreads summary:
“The measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”—Virginia au Augustus
The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains.
But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend.
The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow. Because after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.
What I’m Crunching — September 14, 2025
I’m proceeding through this great book. I appreciate the detail and attention given to the intricacies of the dynamics between different factions of the Creek Nation. I had no idea some of the events occurred. One interesting point is how the early Georgians (residents of the U.S. of Georgia) were encroaching more and more upon the lands granted to the Creek Indians by the U.S. Federal Government.
Like in many historical conflicts, many variables exacerbated the conflict and a downward spiral continued (including a civil war among the Creeks) until a larger, full-blown war broke out.
What I’m Crunching — September 7, 2025
This week I finished this audiobook and immediately borrowed #6 via Libby.
Pierce Brown’s work in the Red Rising series is well worth the investment of time to read them.
What I’m Crunching — August 31, 2025
Books I’m Reading I’ve nearly finished this audiobook and I’ll continue on to #6 after this one. Pierce Brown writes so well, constructs and maintains an excellent narrative, and makes the world of the story seem real. The narrative follows multiple perspectives, giving a panoramic view of the escalating conflict. There’s relentless action, political intrigue, […]
What I’m Crunching — August 24, 2025
Peter Cozzens has written a trilogy that looks at the events leading up to and including the eradication of the Native American population from the U.S. South. A Brutal Reckoning is the third book in the trilogy and focuses on Andrew Jackson’s role in the war with the Creek Indians. I expect to be shocked and appalled as I read.
These stories haven’t gotten the awareness they deserve. Cozzens makes the case that the brutal wars and removal of the American Indian from their lands laid the foundation for the American form of chattel slavery and thus, the American Civil War, because it opened up the fertile southern U.S. for settlement by the conquering whites.