While halfway through this book, I wondered why it took me a year to start it (having bought it on impulse at Logan Airport on my way to Denmark last year). It's classic Terry Pratchett satire, and is a hilarious and insightful send-up of leadership and politics. While thoroughly enjoying this book, it made me realize that I need to read more fiction. Non-fiction business books comprise the bulk of my reading list, but there's no better way to learn to tell a story than by reading fiction by authors I enjoy.

This book also resonated with me more on my trip than it would have at home because I did not have to imagine the narrow twisting streets, the tiny horse-drawn carts, and the beautiful architecture of the medieval setting in Night Watch; I was living them in Stonetown.