[bookshare-discuss] book recommendation
- From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:32:55 -0500
Hi all,
I'm reading a book that I'm really enjoying, so I thought I'd share in case it
appeals to anyone else. The book is called Assassination Vacation by Sarah
Vowell. I'm reading it as a commercial audio book, but it's also available from
Bookshare. It's an adventure in discovering history focused on the U.S.
presidents who were assassinated while in office. I'm not especially interested
in U.S. history most of the time--I've been taught it so repetitively and so
conventionally that all the interest value has been squeezed out. But this book
is reminding me that U.S. history is no less interesting than the history of
anywhere else, meaning that it can be quite fascinating. The book is an
out-and-out celebration of general quirkiness with offbeat humor heavy on the
irony and more tangents than your average trigonometry class.
And no, no one is paying me to write this review. <grin>
Happy reading,
Kellie
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