Reading is my last true addiction. Mostly history only rarely fiction, even then my only escape from reality, since about 6th grade, has been Stephen King, only with rare breaks for Clancy. Sure I love the classics, always have - Hemingway, Golding, Bronte, Shelley, Poe, Orwell, Scott, Cooper, Solzhenitsyn, Dostoevsky, Capote, Heller, Salinger, etc.. Some others, however, even if I didn't enjoy Dickens or Hugo the first time I read them in AP LIT, I've gone back to them. This year has been tough but I've tried to make a concerted effort to read more, to distract and calm my brain. Here are the books that I have finished since December 20th, not necessarily in order, (but with my OCD, probably):
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation 1765-1795 by Edward J. Larson
Sheridan's Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War by Robert Cwiklik
Shenandoah 1862, Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign by Peter Cozzens
Modernizing a Slave Economy: the Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation by John Majewski
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America by Peter Silver
The Battle of Fallen Timbers: A Change of Worlds by David Westrick
Sitting Bull Speaks: The Life and Times of the Lakota Sioux Leader edited by Brad D. Lookingbill
The Conquering Tide by Ian Toll
Triple Cross by Peter Lance
Japan's Holocaust by Bryan Mark Rigg
Justice at Nuremberg by Robert E. Conot
Crucible of War by Fred Anderson
Great Society: A New History by Amity Shlaes
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War by G.J.Meyer
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan
The Cavalry at Gettysburg by Edward G. Longacre
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guezlo
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
The Gales of November: the Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon
Two things...maybe I do have a problem Crystal and perhaps there is a reason for my eyes to hurt so much?
