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January 1, 2015
Following Atticus
Am just under half way through this book. I picked it up when in Vermont last year and combine that with 'Deluge' and 'A People's History of the United States' and throw in there Life...I just am not reading as much as I want to.
But, as we are often compelled to do, I'm making this my 'only' New Year's resolution...to read more books.
This book is a great story of a man finding his way. And the two little Dogs that are helping him. Good read. Check it out.
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April 1, 2014
Deluge: Tropical Storm Irene
Vermont's Flash Floods, and How One Small State Saved Itself - I picked this book up when I visited Becket Morgan in Vermont this last February. I love stories of how people and places recover and carry on with their lives. And this proved to be a promising tale. I'm only a handful of pages in but I'm enjoying it thus far
Two concurrent books? I'll never finish them!!
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March 10, 2014
I've now started the book "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn at the recommendation of Inquisitive Hippo on her Project 42 page. Check Becket Morgan out and her own reading projects!
I know that history is written by the conquerors. By the rich guy who could afford to take the time or spend the money to have his 'memoir' written. But it doesn't really hit home just exactly what Europeans did to the North and South American continent upon arrival here. Everything from subjugation to willful infection to murder/genocide, it was done in the white man's eternal voyage to own all the things.
I'm only into the first chapter of A People's History and the indignation I am feeling is overwhelming. But, it isn't anything new to me. Oddly.
Makes me wonder what the hell I was thinking as a kid learning history.
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March 5, 2014
I just finished "Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver. You know a book has you wrapped up in it when you hit the finish and you're longing for more...more on the characters' decisions, lives, hopes and expectations.
This book did just that for me.
It's a story of finding your way on an Appalachian mountain and the hollows below it, whether you're an old vocational agriculture teacher, young widow or a She-Wolf living on a mountain. And how each of those lives intersect on some basic level. I felt my hopes building for Lusa and Nannie...that they'd be successful. In Garnett, that he'd let his heart open a bit. And most of all, I was left hoping Mother Nature would win out.
If you have a few days, take the time to read this book. It got a little preachy in a few places but don't we all? You won't regret it.
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I know that history is written by the conquerors. By the rich guy who could afford to take the time or spend the money to have his 'memoir' written. But it doesn't really hit home just exactly what Europeans did to the North and South American continent upon arrival here. Everything from subjugation to willful infection to murder/genocide, it was done in the white man's eternal voyage to own all the things.
I'm only into the first chapter of A People's History and the indignation I am feeling is overwhelming. But, it isn't anything new to me. Oddly.
Makes me wonder what the hell I was thinking as a kid learning history.
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March 5, 2014
I just finished "Prodigal Summer" by Barbara Kingsolver. You know a book has you wrapped up in it when you hit the finish and you're longing for more...more on the characters' decisions, lives, hopes and expectations.
This book did just that for me.
It's a story of finding your way on an Appalachian mountain and the hollows below it, whether you're an old vocational agriculture teacher, young widow or a She-Wolf living on a mountain. And how each of those lives intersect on some basic level. I felt my hopes building for Lusa and Nannie...that they'd be successful. In Garnett, that he'd let his heart open a bit. And most of all, I was left hoping Mother Nature would win out.
If you have a few days, take the time to read this book. It got a little preachy in a few places but don't we all? You won't regret it.
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