I See You Everywhere

I really enjoyed this reading this book but I still cannot decide if I actually liked it or not! And i'm writing this a week after I finished it! The book is about two sisters who have trouble all their lives connecting with each other and enjoying being near each other. The older sister, Louisa, is the more reserved one who has the real jobs and is never very good with men and always feels slightly shorted by her younger sister Clem. Clem is the "slut" who has numerous jobs saving animals and working in many desolated areas but always manages to have some guy on the side and enjoys her free life. Even with all of their disconnect they are who each other calls when something rough happens and they flex between loving being each other and then hating and not speaking for long periods of time! Though they are the main characters there are a number of supporting characters as well such as a very awesome great aunt and a mother who loves Clem more. Overall the story has not timeline or major point, it just floats around between the two sister's points of view and though you are intrigued and want to continue reading there is no ending point or anything.
Then almost as if the author just didn't know how to end the story she throws in this insane twist! Completely unexpected and I'm not so sure I actually believe this would happen but it also suggests that all of teh circling and disconnect that Glass threads throughout the book is actually a motivating factor for the final ending and that perhaps there are wrongs that can't be righted no matter how much is tried.
Overall I would suggest reading this book if you want a good thought provoking read. I certainly did enjoy it as I read it. Minus the ending!

Fair Game

"How a top CIA Agent was betrayed by her own Government"

This book is a true story about Valerie Plame Wilson, an undercover CIA agent for many years, whose job and position gets outed in the press by higher up government officials. The book details her experiences dealing with this situation. It's interesting because her husband was a very public figure who spoke his mind about all sorts of political situations. The whole thing came to a rise when her husband spoke out about the Iraq war and how there was no evidence that he had discovered proving that Iraq had or was making weapons of mass destruction. Basically the White House did not like having this in the press as they wanted to invade Iraq and thus starts years of destroying Valerie and her husbands reputation as well as her career because once she is outed she can't do most of her job anymore.

The story itself was rather hard to understand as she was legally obligated to submit the story to the CIA to ensure no classified information was presented and this basically led to them blacking out up to 25% of her total book. She decided to refute this by printing the whole story and showing just how much was actually redacted. This left a story with missing parts of sentences and whole chapters blacked out. There was also a lot of political name dropping which unless you are very tuned in to politics just makes for a confusing who is this guy? have we already heard about him? blah blah blah. understood that this is included becuase that was her job and life knowing all these names and people but it is certainly rather dry and confusing to read!

I was mainly horrified by how little evidence there was to promote invading Iraq and how extreme the lengths were that the White House and upper government officials went to distort the facts and stories to the public so that everyone would be supportive of a war. It makes me want to go out and research more and yet it makes me so frustrated that we have a government ruling us that has become so powerful that a small number of people can make major decisions and just hide or lie real facts if anyone opposes. Almost makes you think that even if the end of the world did come around it might be a good thing so that mankind can start from page 1 again!