Try to Remember by Iris Gomez -- the story of a teenage
Colombian girl growing up in an immigrant family in Miami; I found this
at a book exchange
Expats by Christopher
Dickey -- the author's recollections as he travels around the Middle
East; not my favorite book of this sort, but there were several
interesting tidbits throughout
Captured by Grace
by David Jeremiah -- I've read this one before, but came across it
while unpacking books and decided to read it again. I love the
subtitle: "No One is Beyond the Reach of a Loving God." Some good
reminders for me in here!
4 comments:
You've listed some intriguing books here over the last few months. Interesting what you said about Guns of August. I find WW1 fascinating, so I'll read it and let you know what I think.
Yes, please do! I'm sure many folks like it fine. I just found it rather tedious. Perhaps you have some other WWI books to recommend.
I think we catch up on each others' blogs in spurts :). I just read The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman's history of the Western world in the years leading up to WWI, and absolutely loved it. Her prose is so elegant, and I was amazed how many interesting mini-biographies she was able to include without making everyone blend together.
I think I'll probably read The Guns of August now, since I liked Proud Tower so much. Although one of the things I liked about it was that it had so much about culture and art, and not as much political and military history (she doesn't even mention the Balkan wars).
I love cultural stuff, Sarah, so that book sounds good. I will check out your book review on it. I liked parts of The Guns of August - I even shared some tidbits on Facebook that I found interesting - but I just got bored partway through, though I did finish the book! :)
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