September Books

Junior fiction that kind of follows the book Little Women. It's pretty good but I'm not sure Rebekah would be that interested in it, not knowing the Little Women characters. 

I should have known from the title before I jumped in, but this book is pretty heavy. The main character was told he would be promoted, "if you survive." Then it goes into all of his horrific war encounters. It's good but one would have to be interested actual war accounts. 

I listened to most of this while I was driving back from Michigan with Don. I was hoping for more, but it did give a brief insight into Galileo.

Not the most readable book. The information was there but it struggled to maintain my interest, and I'm invested in Sherman, the Civil War, and the March to the Sea, so it should have been easier to keep my attention. 

Yes, here it is again. And I think you'll see the next one early next month. Andy Serkis truly brings the story to another level.

Had to stare at this one for a bit to remember what it was. It was okay, but seriously not one I'd recommend. It follows two timelines, one WWII and one modern day. Both story lines seem a little much but it works I guess. 

I'll need to read again to fully understand - maybe again and again. It's hard reading and I don't have much previous knowledge in this subject area. I may revisit this, or another book about the same subject. 

I'll admit right now this book and the one following I didn't finish. I believe my problem with this one was the author tried to make it huge and lost so much as he went on. I finished part one and felt like nothing happened. Eventually I was at a place where I had at least half the book to go and still felt like nothing was really happening. I knew at this point we were going to go into the concentration camps and just didn't want to continue. 

This one I didn't finish because of language and violence. I also felt like the cover and title were way cooler than the author's writing. 

Fascinating, but I felt like it was read by a teenager. However, I learned a lot and my interest was maintained so there's that. 

I almost chose not to finish this one as well but I felt invested in the main character. There's a lot of harsh language and some sexual references / situations. However, I felt empathy with the main character so I continued onward. It's good if you can get over the harshness. 

It's a book about a sports hero. But the title intrigued me so I read. His childhood was horrifying but I continued onward. The way he got his nickname should make people shun him, and yet there he is. He did some incredible things and the author writes them well enough that when I looked it up on YouTube, it was exactly as he wrote it. But I'm somewhat horrified that we cannot have better role models.

Well written history about Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I. I liked the new angle but I do assume she took some emotionally charged liberties when making the connections between Elizabeth and her mother. However, it was very interesting to learn more about Anne.