I have chosen, picked up and even begun my first book! Hurrah!
Joseph Ellis began his work on George Washington with a personal preface about how he first got to know our first president and then how he decided to write a book about him. It was interesting, short and well written. I hope the rest of the book is as enjoyable.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The historical journey begins with a single Youtube video
I have honestly never had a child make me feel as clueless as this one did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMgQLdXcKRw
Charlotte, you have inspired me and set me out on my next literary quest. Watching this young brainiac and her trusty place mat really put me in my place- what kind of adult American am I that cannot even name a dozen presidents off the top of my head, let alone even tell you how many there have been altogether! Yipes! And it's not that the education system is failing us, this just is not something that we have emphasized lately and I think it's time to get going again on our presidents. I want to know this, so here goes.
I am going to read, in order, a presidential biography for all of our forty-three honorable gentlemen (Obama is currently serving term forty-four because Cleveland served two terms, but they were not back to back.) See! I learned something already! Thank you Wikipedia!
My title selections will come from a cross-reference from the best rated biography for each president on Amazon or from word of mouth and the books currently offered by my local library. If I was rich and super cool I would just download all the books at once onto my Kindle and enjoy the thought that all those books and all that historical knowledge was in that little piece of technology... but no dice. My job of staying at home with our baby and working on growing the next one (I'm 20 weeks along right now, due in early June) doesn't pay me well enough to do that.
I am personally excited and overwhelmed by this undertaking, but I know I will come out a better, more educated and thoughtful American for doing it. No toddler will EVER be able to show me up with her place mat knowledge again!
Please feel free to read along; I'd love to be able to have some intelligent comments posted along the way, and if you ever have a book referral you'd like to send my way, do it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMgQLdXcKRw
Charlotte, you have inspired me and set me out on my next literary quest. Watching this young brainiac and her trusty place mat really put me in my place- what kind of adult American am I that cannot even name a dozen presidents off the top of my head, let alone even tell you how many there have been altogether! Yipes! And it's not that the education system is failing us, this just is not something that we have emphasized lately and I think it's time to get going again on our presidents. I want to know this, so here goes.
I am going to read, in order, a presidential biography for all of our forty-three honorable gentlemen (Obama is currently serving term forty-four because Cleveland served two terms, but they were not back to back.) See! I learned something already! Thank you Wikipedia!
My title selections will come from a cross-reference from the best rated biography for each president on Amazon or from word of mouth and the books currently offered by my local library. If I was rich and super cool I would just download all the books at once onto my Kindle and enjoy the thought that all those books and all that historical knowledge was in that little piece of technology... but no dice. My job of staying at home with our baby and working on growing the next one (I'm 20 weeks along right now, due in early June) doesn't pay me well enough to do that.
I am personally excited and overwhelmed by this undertaking, but I know I will come out a better, more educated and thoughtful American for doing it. No toddler will EVER be able to show me up with her place mat knowledge again!
Please feel free to read along; I'd love to be able to have some intelligent comments posted along the way, and if you ever have a book referral you'd like to send my way, do it!
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