This was not an easy book to get through. Complicated, dense and full of tiny print, I felt my eyes glazing over at least once every chapter. And let’s be clear-I like hard books. I like history. I like nonfiction. I’m used to people coming over to me while I’m reading my book and asking me what college class it’s for (as a side note, WHY ARE YOU INTERRUPTING ME WHILE I’M READING?!). But Eric Foner’s Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 was really tough to […]
“Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run.”
Ooh, this was a good read. If you liked the parallels in The Girl You Left Behind, you might like this one, even though the setting is very different. “If there is one lesson I wish to bestow upon you, one shred of wisdom I have gained from my living, dying days, it is this: let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers.” In Virginia, in 1852, seventeen […]
The light has gone dark
I read this one because it’s going to be turned into a movie starring two of my Pajiba Ten — Michael Fassbender & Rachel Weisz. Unfortunately, having read the book, there is no way in hell that I’m going to go see the movie. “You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.” So, the basic summary of the plot: Tom and Izzy Sherbourne live on the deserted Janus […]
The Spirit of ’76
It should be obvious given the subtitle, but suffice it to say that Dan Epstein’s book about baseball in 1976 has little to offer people who aren’t serious baseball fans with a keen interest in the history of the National Pastime. However, for diehard seamheads like me, Epstein’s panoramic look at baseball at a turning point is a thoroughly enjoyable read, even if his level of detail can be mind-numbing at times. Baseball was in an interesting place in 1976. The reserve clause, which had […]
My Kind of Vacation
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
This review is for the audiobook version of Assassination Vacation, by Sarah Vowell. I love history. It was my favorite subject in school. I’ve always seen it as a series of stories, twisted together and linked past to present, leading us to where we are now, not just a list of wars, dates, and names. Those names were people, they lived and loved, they worked, fought, and died. Some we know about, most we don’t, but I love reading and learning about the stories […]
When you are imagining, you may as well imagine something worth while
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are a middle-aged brother and sister who live together and manage the farm of Green Gables on Prince Edward Island in Canada. They intend to take in a small orphan boy to be of help to them on the farm, but due to a mix-up, little eleven-year-old Anne Shirley is sent to them instead. Matthew, who is extremely shy, especially around women, nonetheless warms to the loquacious and imaginative child and after hearing a bit about the hardships the orphan girl […]
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