Last month our book club read Unbroken, Laura Hildenbrand. The story of an American POW during WW II and his return home. I found the end a surprise. I plan to use it in a wedding sermon this fall. My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Remen was our book this month. I think it is book full of deep wisdom. Our next book will be Under Distant Suns, Isabel Wilkerson. It is the story of the African American migration from the south to northern urban centers. 1491, Charles C. Mann is a popular history of the Americas before Columbus arrived. His thesis is that the effect of Small Pox and other epidemics had radically altered Indian life and culture prior to significant European immigration to America. Therefore the European settlers found only a pale shadow of the great cultures that had been here. Currently I'm reading Goddess Of The Market: Ayn Rand and The American Right, Jennifer Burns. Ironic how this ferocious atheist became the darling of the Religious Right.
So many good books, so little time!
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