Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World
5 journalers for this copy...
I am working my way through my TBR pile, registering all the books I've accumulated. This is one of them.
This came in a box full of books today. WOW!! THANX A BUNCH!
I mostly enjoyed the stories. Not too much of a fan, though.
On its way to ReallyBookish
Received safely today along with five others... thank you so much! What a generous bundle of books, ciloma! If there is ever anything I can send you in return, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again!
This was my introduction to the work of Sarah Vowell, and I greatly enjoyed this essay collection. It was a quick read and I found myself carried along by Vowell's humorous and lively writing style. She comes across as intelligent, but unpretentious. I would like to read more of her work!
My favorites in the collection were "Chelsea Girl" and "Thanks for the Memorex."
My favorites in the collection were "Chelsea Girl" and "Thanks for the Memorex."
Journal Entry 7 by ReallyBookish at Wishlist Tag Game , A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (6/12/2019 UTC) at Wishlist Tag Game , A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
This is headed out to 6of8 as part of the wishlist tag game. Enjoy!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I really loved Assassination Vacation and have heard good things about this book. Mt. TBR is as tall and overcrowded as Everest, but I look forward to reading it.
I will look and see what I need to do with the Wishlist Tag game so that I don't slack on my responsibilities.
I will look and see what I need to do with the Wishlist Tag game so that I don't slack on my responsibilities.
I love Sarah Vowell's writing. Something about her voice just strikes a real chord with me. I identify with her book obsession, her struggles relating to her more conservative family, her insomnia, and her ambivalence towards Disney. My favorite of the selections in this book was her retracing of the Trail of Tears. I learned some new things about this horrible event, including the involvement of Stand Waite. My favorite book in the 6th grade (read over 50 times) was Rifles for Waite by Harold Keith, which was an excellent look at the Civil War from both sides. From this book, I learned about the reasons that the Cherokee Nation joined the Confederacy and I knew that many of them were slave owners. My friend Suzy is part Cherokee and we have discussed the Trail of Tears and Andrew Jackson several times. But I had never made the connection until Sarah Vowell made the connection and shared it, that this meant that the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears took their slaves with them on that brutal forced march. If one quarter of the 16,000 Cherokees died on the way to Oklahoma from cold and starvation, how many enslaved people died? As Vowell said, as degrading as slavery was, it would have been even worse being the slave to a broken refugee Indian. Vowell came away with a new sense of connection to that part of her family history. I gained another nugget of the psychology of American history to chew on.
This book is going to meet-up with me and hopefully going home with someone else.
Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.
Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.
Picked this up at today's BCinDC meetup in Rockville, MD. I enjoyed the other Vowell book I read so I'm looking forward to this one.
A collection of autobiographical essays about eulogizing Frank Sinatra, following the Trail of Tears, The Godfather, insomnia, the art of making mix tapes, and loads more besides. It's very much about life as an American but with neither the fawning grandiosity nor the abject scorn so common in other essays of this type. I'm a tad jealous of her opportunities to travel to interesting places, but I am (mostly) content to visit them vicariously. There were a few times when I wondered how an essay would have gone had it been written today (specifically post-9/11, but in other ways too). I enjoy Vowell's style of writing and will have to pick up her other books at some point.