Tag Archives: ” “Mary Poppins”

Just for once I’d like to find some happy fiction. That occurred to me after I began "No Country for Old Men," Cormac McCarthy’s violent story about drug running down around Sanderson, just east of the big bend country of West Texas. Knowing the area, I’m captivated by the story, and will set aside the other two books I was reading, "Imperial Grunts," a look at the far-flung action of the GWOT–in addition to Afghanistan and Iraq–by John D. Kaplan, and "Carnage and Culture," military history by Victor Davis Hanson. I’ll go back to them when I finish NCfOM. It’s got echoes of "Blood Meridian," probably the most violent story I ever read. I’m not talking about "Mary Poppins" but a happy tale now and then would be welcome. Got any recommendations?