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I just finished "Night" by elie Wiesel about his time in the nazi concentration camps. he was 15/16 at the time. It is a quick read at just over 100 pages. reads like a fiction tale, but he lived it. he is going to be the commencement speaker at our son's college next month.
I just finished "Night" by elie Wiesel about his time in the nazi concentration camps. he was 15/16 at the time. It is a quick read at just over 100 pages. reads like a fiction tale, but he lived it. he is going to be the commencement speaker at our son's college next month.
Wow, I would love to hear him speak. I read Night for the first time last year. It kept me awake for a night or two.
I finished reading Vidal's Inventing a Nation last week. He tells the more-or-less chronological story of the founding of the country. It focused more on events after 1776, once Washington was president and beyond. I really enjoyed it.
I also listened to Storm from the East by Milton Viorst. I know very little about the Middle East or the historic conflicts of Islam and Christianity during the last 500 years so it was a lot of new info for me. Also, because it was an audio book, I know I didn't absorb everything, but it was very fascinating.
I'm reading an interesting one now, something a little different for me:
If a Pirate I Must Be by Richard Sanders
It's the story of Bartholomew Roberts who after his death became better known as Black Bart. They had rules. They had elections. They had their rituals. They shared their spoils based on written booty sharing rules. They did NOT make people walk the plank. That happened several years later. They marooned people or put them in front of a firing squad. They had disability compensation. Seriously, you lose a limb, you get extra compensation plus you get to keep your job/a job as long as you live.
2 of my recent non fiction that I enjoyed are "Tree Tops" by Susan Cheever, the daughter of the writer John Cheever and "No More Words" by Reeve Lindbergh, the youngest daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. This book focuses on her mother. Reeve also wrote "Under A Wing" which is about growing up in the Lindbergh household. I loved all of these books.
I know there were a few of these non fiction threads- so i arbitrarily picked this one to bring back to life
I would add-
Omnivore's Dilemma (Pollan)
That one was good. Thanks for reviving this thread.
My personal fave was "The Botany of Desire" (the history of humans' relationships with 4 plants:
the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato) by Pollan (2001).
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Seriously, you lose a limb, you get extra compensation plus you get to keep your job/a job as long as you live.
