Books! How do you read and what do you read?

Just dropped this back at the library. Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie. This book covers far more than I ever knew including the plight of the Creek Indians, the enslaved and freed Americans. Quite sobering but was so enlightening, I could hardly put it down.

Summary: "American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom, their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom's Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement."

The author is a professor of history at Vanderbilt University.
 
I just finished reading' Surviving Savannah' by Patti Callahan, historical fiction book
Its the story of a luxury steam liner'The Pulaski' that sunk in 1838,is discovered by salvage team 180 yrs later
The main character, Everly is a history prof,her friend Oliver asks her to create a museum collection of the items found by team. She investigates to learn what happen to members of Longstreet& Forsythe families,their connection to her best friend, Mora
This was a terrific/fascinating book,loved it. I had read another by the author' Becoming Mrs. Lewis' the relationship between poet JOy Davidman who became C.S. Lewis wife,also really good
 
Nosy Bee-54 said:
Just dropped this back at the library. Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie. This book covers far more than I ever knew including the plight of the Creek Indians, the enslaved and freed Americans. Quite sobering but was so enlightening, I could hardly put it down.

Summary: "American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom, their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom's Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize Native lands, champion secession, overthrow Reconstruction, question the New Deal, and fight against the civil rights movement."

The author is a professor of history at Vanderbilt University.
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This sounds very interesting. I put it in my Amazon cart to think about it. But it's full price, no discount. That might change or come out in paper back in a year or so.
 
Just finished Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the end of a stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan

It's about the conflict brewing in region of the South China Sea between China and its smaller neighbors and the implications for global peace and stability in the 21st century.
 
Currently reading Hellhound on His Trail, by Hampton Sides

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see.
 
Reading "Enchanted April" online (our public library is closed for renovation); I *loved* the movie and the first written chapter holds much promise.

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I love to read. I use a Kindle. I can put a thousand books on it and there’s no clutter in my house! There’s a lot to be said for that.
I love character driven fiction most of all. My latest obsession has been everything by Elizabeth Strout. She wrote Olive Kitteridge which won the Pulitzer Prize. Her characters are amazing and their stories intertwine in all of her books. I feel like I know them personally.😊
Many are older like us and I can really relate to their lives or thoughts. I’ve read all of her books now and am just waiting for the next.
I’ve also read The Secret Life of Bees and it’s a good one!
 
Sliverfox said:
THE LOST GIRLS OF PARIS by Pam Jenoff.
A story of friendship & courage of women who become secret agents during World War II.
A good read.

I'll be looking for other books by this author.
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Hi Silverfox, read that book it was good, here are some of her other books which I read
The Orphans' Tale, The Diplomat's Wife, The Ambassador's Daughter' Sue aka MQ
 
The book I finished yesterday is' The Maidens' by Alexander Michaeldis
A thriller set at Cambridge England,main character Mariana,a group therapist tries to help her niece Zoe cope with the murder of her best friend, Tara. There were twists/ turns another surprise ending I never saw coming. This is the 2nd book by this young, talented write. His debut book was' The Patient' I recommend both of these terrrific can't put down books Sue
 
I just finished A Shot in the Dark by Lynne Truss. Yes, the same Lynne Truss who wrote the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves (a lighthearted look at punctuation).

A humorous mystery, it had me laughing out loud. It's the first in the Constable Twitten series. I'd already read another book in the series, and I liked this one better.

I'm surprised to see that A Shot in the Dark gets just average reviews on the Internet. I guess it's not for everyone. It's kind of stoopid, but that's part of its charm.
 
Finished CEMETERY ROAD, by Greg Iles
Was a very good mystery with lots of twist.

A successful journalist returns home to help his mother care for his terminally ill father..

His family's 150 year old news paper is failing,,he tries to keep it operating.
The men behind controlling the towns' future ' don't ,like him looking into their behind the scenes handling methods.
 
Fordlandia by Greg Grandin. Henry Ford, the richest man in 1927, established a settlement in the Brazilian Amazon to grow rubber. Got a lot more insight about the man who built the Ford Motor Company.
 
Finished reading the eye-opening "Spare".

The experiences he relates square closely with what most Hollywood A-list celebs say about the relentless hounding, outrageous untruths, and endless miseries foisted on them by paparazzi and supermarket rags. And by most accounts - not just his - yellow journalism is worse in England because, unlike the US, they are rarely sued successfully.

Can't blame him for walking away from that life, especially given that he's a spare now five times removed from the throne.
 

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