Day 14 - A Non-Fictional Book

Since I am in school, I think it's only appropriate that I use my text book for this entry. In my Global History to 1500 class, we are using the book "World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity- Volume 1" By Peter N. Stearns. I don't really like the book, because I feel like it gives a lot of information on things that are unimportant and then glances by the things that are very important. Also, my awesome history professor has had to flat out tell us that the book was wrong on a couple of occasions. Since it's "in brief" it doesn't have much detail anyway (which I guess makes sense for a six week class!).

Day 13 - A Fictional Book

I am slightly addicted to buying books at my local Savers store. Paperbacks are $2.49, and when you buy three books you get the fourth free. Needless to say, most of my library in my house is from this store.

On my last trip, I picked up a couple of books. The one that I am reading now is "Lipstick Jungle" by Candace Bushnell. It's similar to her other well known book ("Sex and the City"), because it follows a group of women and their lives in New York. It is different because two out of three of these women are wives with families, and they seem to be older than the characters in SATC were (at least in the beginning).

I am about a quarter of the way through, and am enjoying it so far. I'm actually excited to read the book so that I can watch the TV series (which I have added to my Hulu queue!).

Day 4 - Your Favorite Book

My Dad gets me a book pretty much every year for Christmas. Actually, he gets me books for lots of different reasons. After his last trip to Louisiana, he came back with a book from a second hand book store about the history of the Cajuns. I love that he usually picks interesting ones, or ones that he thinks I would really like.

A few Christmas' ago, he got me a book called "Sex Wars" by Marge Piercy. This is by far my favorite book. It follows 4 different characters in post-Civil War New York City. Three of the main characters are actual historic figures (Victoria Woodhull, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Anthony Comstock). The fourth character is a fictional Jewish immigrant. I found that the novel had just the right mix of historical information and entertainment. I reads easily, and when I read it, I found that I just couldn't put it down. I love history, so to see how these historical figures intertwine into one story was very interesting. I also didn't know much about the characters, so I found that once read the book, I wanted to look up more information about that time in New York and the characters I was reading about.