tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16549448.post4019762110381994177..comments2023-10-22T08:20:13.694-05:00Comments on Allison Wonderland: ConvertAlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05557524279832095106noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16549448.post-48202839701645564452009-10-30T11:55:00.069-05:002009-10-30T11:55:00.069-05:00Yeah, I know what you mean. She writes popular hi...Yeah, I know what you mean. She writes popular history from a very personal perspective. It's like a history-memoir, from what I've read. There are bound to be simplifications. But I'm confused: Why did they only have access to the Geneva Bible? Was everything else sold out or something? Was it the cost? Saying it wasn't a choice seems suspect to me, though I don't know the story of the Mass Bay Pilgrims, so maybe I'm missing something. That seems like an odd statement to me.everything and nothinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778880845873967712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16549448.post-10835668290887365162009-10-30T09:48:03.918-05:002009-10-30T09:48:03.918-05:00AWESOME
Maybe I will just buy it - I have to buy J...AWESOME<br />Maybe I will just buy it - I have to buy Jamaal's niece a bday gift and am giving her the no. 1 ladies' detective agency books....I have to pick those up today, so maybe...<br /><br />Also, my bookclub kind of ripped her apart for her "historical inaccuracies" These including things like "the Mass Bay-ers didn't "chose" the Geneva Bible, it was the only one in print accessible to them at the time." I was like "seriously, how critical is this inaccuracy? if Vowell said "the pilgrims and indians then frolicked in a field and intermarried and live for the rest of their days in happy eternity" I would be more concerned than the bible version they used...BECAUSE IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE STORY" I just got stared at, lol. Then they talked about how Vowell is self-centered and this was all history through her eyes blah blah blah. The one woman I usually agree spot on with a bookclub turns to me and goes "maybe it is a singular view...but uh, nothing else could get me to read about the Mass Bay colonists." Then we cackled.Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05557524279832095106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16549448.post-43450655796338536392009-10-30T09:10:08.875-05:002009-10-30T09:10:08.875-05:00ASSASSINATION VACATION!!!
I hope you like it as mu...ASSASSINATION VACATION!!!<br />I hope you like it as much as I did.<br />Here is a fabulous excerpt:<br /><i>Now a person with sharper social skills than I might have noticed that as these folks ate their freshly baked blueberry muffins and admired the bed-and-breakfast's teapot collection, they probably didn't want to think about presidential gunshot wounds. But when I'm around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ash off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.</i>everything and nothinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778880845873967712noreply@blogger.com