Read any good books lately? Yes? Yes!
ROUTE 1 readers don't just read blogs y'know. They also crack open the occasional box of cereal and study the writing on the back.
Oh, and apparently a few even read something called a "book," judging from the answers to this week's FRIDAY QUESTION:
"Read any good books lately?"
BRIAN C. -- "The Gambler King of Clark Street," by Richard Lindberg, a biography of Michael McDonald, who, though never elected to anything, was arguably the most influential man in 19th century Chicago.
KERSTIN H. -- Yeah omg... There's "The Sledding Hill" by Chris Crutcher.
LISA Y. -- Excellent book: "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. From Amazon: A novel "set during the civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver." Also: "The Weight of Silence" by Heather Gudenkauf (a local author). Great story!
BEKAH P. -- Um, YES! First and foremost, I took a dive into my classic section and emerged with Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway." I wasn't expecting much from it, and in fact planned on just plowing through to check off yet another literary "must-read." Instead, I have enjoyed each and every single word. The whole thing is just beautiful. Other than that, I got caught up in a really beautiful Civil War Book called "The Widow of the South." It's based on the true story of Carrie McGovern, who provided her house to the South as a hospital during one of the more major battles. Then, years later, when a local businessman decided to plow over the field with all the buried boys, she and her husband and a loyal slave dug up all of the nearly 10,000 bodies and reburied them on her property, where she lovingly kept the cemetery in good care. Simply stunning!
SANDYE V. -- "The Help" is my favorite book (a novel) so far this year. It's controversial, because a white woman wrote from the point of view of two African American maids in the early 1960s. Her third main character is a young white woman who decides to write a book about their experiences. It's a real page turner and the kind of story you're desperate to finish and sorry when it's over.
JOHN S. -- I just finished "Devil in the White City." It was very good.
MIKE M. -- Not so good as gripping, "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by journalist Barbara Demick describes how North Koreans are literally dying in the streets because of famine, and how most are unaware of the existence of the Internet.
ERIK H. -- "The War for Ireland: 1913-1923," edited by Peter Cottrell, is a comprehensive history of the Irish independence movement. It finishes with the Irish Civil War, which was one of the world's bitterest internecine feuds, yet I never learned about it in school.
Oh, and apparently a few even read something called a "book," judging from the answers to this week's FRIDAY QUESTION:
"Read any good books lately?"
BRIAN C. -- "The Gambler King of Clark Street," by Richard Lindberg, a biography of Michael McDonald, who, though never elected to anything, was arguably the most influential man in 19th century Chicago.
KERSTIN H. -- Yeah omg... There's "The Sledding Hill" by Chris Crutcher.
LISA Y. -- Excellent book: "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. From Amazon: A novel "set during the civil rights movement in Jackson, Miss., where black women were trusted to raise white children but not to polish the household silver." Also: "The Weight of Silence" by Heather Gudenkauf (a local author). Great story!
BEKAH P. -- Um, YES! First and foremost, I took a dive into my classic section and emerged with Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway." I wasn't expecting much from it, and in fact planned on just plowing through to check off yet another literary "must-read." Instead, I have enjoyed each and every single word. The whole thing is just beautiful. Other than that, I got caught up in a really beautiful Civil War Book called "The Widow of the South." It's based on the true story of Carrie McGovern, who provided her house to the South as a hospital during one of the more major battles. Then, years later, when a local businessman decided to plow over the field with all the buried boys, she and her husband and a loyal slave dug up all of the nearly 10,000 bodies and reburied them on her property, where she lovingly kept the cemetery in good care. Simply stunning!
SANDYE V. -- "The Help" is my favorite book (a novel) so far this year. It's controversial, because a white woman wrote from the point of view of two African American maids in the early 1960s. Her third main character is a young white woman who decides to write a book about their experiences. It's a real page turner and the kind of story you're desperate to finish and sorry when it's over.
JOHN S. -- I just finished "Devil in the White City." It was very good.
MIKE M. -- Not so good as gripping, "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by journalist Barbara Demick describes how North Koreans are literally dying in the streets because of famine, and how most are unaware of the existence of the Internet.
ERIK H. -- "The War for Ireland: 1913-1923," edited by Peter Cottrell, is a comprehensive history of the Irish independence movement. It finishes with the Irish Civil War, which was one of the world's bitterest internecine feuds, yet I never learned about it in school.
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