"Albion's Seed" by David Hackett Fischer

 

Albion's Seed

by

David Hackett Fischer

This is a book that has taken me over a year to read.  There were months I did not even open my kindle app and work on it.  It is an overwhelming one thousand pages of what is very good information but not in any way light reading.  It is a social history of four of the groups of British immigrants to Colonial America and their enduring contribution to the formation and history of the United States.  The four groups are the Puritans,  the Virginia Planter,  the Quakers and what I have always known as the Scotch Irish, which he called the  Northern Border People.  With my interest in family history I considered this a must read and I do recommend other students of American Social History also wade through it.  But I am very glad to have reached the end.  It was work to read.  The book contains a great deal of extremely good information.  I am not sure I totally agree with the author but it would be interesting to hear his ideas debated by learned historians.  Please enjoy the video that follows about the book and click on the book title and author's name above to follow links to more information.  

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Horse

By

Geraldine Brooks 

It has been almost a year since I finished a book and posted about it on my blog.  I have had the same book on my kindle for that long.  I retired so no longer commute which is when I listened to audio books.  But some recent short car trips alone enabled me to complete and audio book.  It was a really good one!  Therefore I am able to share it with you.  

Geraldine Brooks is one of my go to authors.  I have read five of her six novels and will eventually read any book she writes.  Horse is a historical novel and one of its themes is  the racing industry in the United States during the time frame of just prior to the civil war.  Another theme that weaves throughout the story is equine art.  The book bounces between the 1850s, the 1950s and 2019.  Science is part of the novel as  skeletal reconstruction is touched on along with  the issue of race related to police brutality in our current culture.  This novel is timely and yet timeless.  I really enjoyed listening to it and recommend that others read it too.   

Please click on the book title and author's name above to follow links to more information and enjoy the video that follows.