Category: Book Review
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Finished One Hundred Years of Solitude
What an enchanting story. I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez.
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Finished total oblivion
When the world ends, it is up to 16-year-old Macy to keep her family together. In total oblivion: more or less, the Palmers witness their Minnesota town break down — no phone, no cable, and soon no government.
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Finished Manhunt
In Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, I think Swanson has done great work in making John Wilkes Booth a sympathetic protagonist who is also the villain.
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Finished Lincoln and Douglas
What a fascinating and insightful book on the Lincoln-Douglas debates that occured in 1858. Allan Guelzo details, and I mean details, the players, the strategies, the routes, and even keeps score of the historic matches between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln as they campaigned for the Illinois senate seat.
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Finished The Slaves’ War
Andrew Ward’s The Slaves’ War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves turned out to be a good overview of the slave experience before, during and following the American Civil War, as told by the former slaves themselves.