Quixotic Quest: April Edition
Even taking two classes and my continuing work schedule, I was able to get a few books in. Of course they were both written by my favorite, Sarah Vowell. I also had gotten further in the Best Travel Writing of 2004 book — almost to the end (although the last few have been real downers being about traveling in war torn foreign lands). I will one day finish this book.
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. I thought this was seriously funny. I never imagined that killing presidents would be so. While the story of Lincoln’s assassination is fascinating, Garfield and McKinley’s are equally interesting as well. Vowell is a very entertaining writer. She wears her GenX id front and center. You could feel the sarcasm in words, yet she gets across how much history fascinates and motivates her. I love that. She is a great voice of our geneartion. A++
(I also bought the book on CD. While I can take her for 15 minutes at a time 4 hours of Sarah Vowell gets on you at times. If not for Jon Stewart. I would’ve hated her. Stewart’s turn as President Garfield was hilarious. It has given me a different view of the guy. Jon Stewart as well)
Take the Cannolis by Sara Vowell. While this is a collection of essays that were written somewhere else, they are still fresh and funny. I liked her take on Tom Cruise. The fact that Ms. Vowell is deeply immensed in pop culture as am I has me attracted to her writings. This book lacked the hilarity of the previous only because each topic/essay had to be treated as one. B
May has started on a bang as I am reading Shadow of the Wind and would have finished today if not for writing my final report for school.
