Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, Book 2) is another solid fantasy book… just very long. All three stories overlap by the middle (a huge plus), and the world changes dramatically by the end. But couldn’t face book 3– not up for 1200 more pages yet.
Matt Yglesais One Billion Americans was a good, relatively fast read. The premise is assumed (that American’s aren’t willing to slide in importance), but it does align with our rhetoric. Given the goal, it’s a lot of well marshaled facts and interesting anecdotes. It pivots in part 3 somewhat unsuccessfully to the specifics of local governance and land use. It’s presented as a continuation of the previous theme, but I’d have rather had the extra attention paid to finishing the federal element–that’s plenty hard.