I’ve read a lot of books set during World War II, but only a couple that centered on Italy, and this is the first I’ve read that’s dealt specifically with the Army’s 92nd Division — aka, the Buffalo Soldiers. “To fight the enemy? Which enemy? The Germans? The Italians? The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.” Towards the end of World War II, four soldiers with the 92nd Division get separated from […]
Good Lord Bird
My book club is partially to blame for my slower reading progress this fall. All of our selections have been quite lengthy, and I am not the type of person who can read more than one book at a time. One of those lengthy selections was James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird. This historical fiction novel tells the story of Henry Shackleford, a young slave in the Kansas Territory in the late 1850s who finds himself in the company of Old John Brown – more […]
God is the color of water.
I read The Color of Water by James McBride for my Honors Composition I course (eleven years ago now! Yikes), and I remembered liking it. My friend F had this month’s pick for our book club, and she chose this one, so that we could talk about race in America. If you’ve followed my reviews for any length of time, you know I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, because I often have issues with the writing or style. I felt that The Color of […]