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I read widely and in most genres but romance and westerns. Here you'll find my reviews since 2007, with a few reviews of previously read books as well.
In 2012, I completed an "authors of the world" challenge, reading a book for every country (and a few other entities) by someone who'd lived there for at least two years. I expect to tag these books by challenge and country in the near future. I'm still refining my list by adding books that better meet my challenge criteria.
Lamb, a reporter during the American War, and again a reporter in Hanoi in the late '90s, gives a complex, nuanced account of Vietnam. Lamb captures the ambiguity of Vietnam as well as his ambivalence--he sees the best and worst in Vietnamese culture. Lamb is well-situated to comment on enduring trends and transient phenomena, and he does so even-handedly and with reasonable self-reflection. Lamb is neither romantic nor cynical about Vietnam, making this book especially refreshing in its genre. Read with Thuong Nhu Tang's A Viet Cong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and its Aftermath, and as a well-balanced contrast to Brownmiller's rather negative Seeing Vietnam.