Book Reviews and a Little More…
Book #39 was The Lost German Slave Girl, by John Bailey. I classify this book under “slightly fictionalized historical accounts”. I have a few books like this. It was interesting, especially the explanations surround slavery and who was and wasn’t or could or couldn’t be a slave. Book count: 39 Pages in book: 268 Page count: 15,439 Words in book: 93,890 Word count: 4,424,417
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Book #75 was Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer. I read this book as a matter of curiosity. It was actually recommended to us by Scott’s brother, who is married to a Mormon girl. And really, I’ve learned more about Mormonism in the last 5 years than I’ve known my whole live. And not just from my sister-in-law — my sister married a
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Book #42 was Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer. This book was every bit as good as I was told it was, and I don’t even like mountain climbing. It’s just amazing what people will put themselves through for a couple of minutes on top of the tallest mountain on Earth. It’s also amazing how a bunch of trivial seeming things can snowball into such
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Book #41 was The Count and the Confession, by John Taylor. I like the occasional true crime story, and if you saw how often I’m watching A&E, you would know how true this is. I found this one especially interesting, because it takes place in an area I’m familiar with. You can pretty much tell which way the book is slanted within the first few
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