The Book of Unknown Americans – 4/5 stars I liked this book a lot and I really thought I was going to….well not not like it, but find it mediocre or something like that. I am not sure why I thought this, and well, I should probably explore that and really don’t want to at the same time. The book is told from many voices; almost all recent, first, or second generation immigrants from Mexico and Latin America. The voices range in scope and circumstance, […]
May be total bunk, but perfectly entertaining
So my caveats are: This is pop history and all its trappings are possible and present within this. I don’t know almost anything about the Boer War going in so I can’t challenge anything. I listened to the audiobook, so any reference material used was not directly cited. But I found this very entertaining. It’s about Winston Churchill’s Boer War experiences first as a combatant and then as a war reporter who is captured and then escapes, and then spends a bunch of time […]