100! and book review.
Tonight I finished my 100th book of the year. Ok, so technically if you don't count graphic novels it is only my 72nd book of the year, but it is not like there is a scoring rules guideline here. As it happens, book #100 would have rated a review even without its lofty number, because Assassination Vacation was hilarious.
The grammatically named Sarah Vowell of This American Life and The Invisibles expends plenty of adjectives as she chronicles her semi-obsessive trips around America to visit places and artifacts associated with the assassinations of President's Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. She bounces from tangential story to fond reminiscing to random factoids and back again repeatedly throughout the course of each tale. Her fondness for digressing to the ills of the current presidential administration can be a tad annoying, but overall the book feels like you are listening to a really cool friend talk about this awesome but slightly kooky trip she took. You might not particularly care about the topic in question or the trip she took because of it, but it sure is a lot of fun listening to her talk about it because her excitement for it is contagious. It's a short but enjoyable read.
The book features a Cleveland cameo when she visits Garfield's tomb in Lakeview Cemetery. It's sort of embarrassing, but I've only walked through the cemetery twice ever despite living in easy walking distance of it for the better part of 8 years. Did you know that Ray Chapman is buried there?
The grammatically named Sarah Vowell of This American Life and The Invisibles expends plenty of adjectives as she chronicles her semi-obsessive trips around America to visit places and artifacts associated with the assassinations of President's Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. She bounces from tangential story to fond reminiscing to random factoids and back again repeatedly throughout the course of each tale. Her fondness for digressing to the ills of the current presidential administration can be a tad annoying, but overall the book feels like you are listening to a really cool friend talk about this awesome but slightly kooky trip she took. You might not particularly care about the topic in question or the trip she took because of it, but it sure is a lot of fun listening to her talk about it because her excitement for it is contagious. It's a short but enjoyable read.
The book features a Cleveland cameo when she visits Garfield's tomb in Lakeview Cemetery. It's sort of embarrassing, but I've only walked through the cemetery twice ever despite living in easy walking distance of it for the better part of 8 years. Did you know that Ray Chapman is buried there?