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Book Report
Aug. 2nd, 2012 01:43 pmLots of grades of “B” here. And my last book report was posted July 21, so I knocked these out in about a week and a half.
A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, edited by Conlon, Emerick, and De Tessan – Maybe I’ve OD-ed on travel memoirs for the time being. These were readable enough but not outstanding and I started to get a bit bored with the book. The editors certainly did do a nice job of picking a wide range of travel destinations, and helpfully began each essay with a world map highlighting the respective destination. Grade: B-
Barnheart by Jenna Woginrich – In a world filled with snarky, sarcastic memoirs, this book comes as a breath of fresh country air. Jenna Woginrich is obsessed with wanting to become a farmer. She has very little money, no relatives who farm, limited experience – but she goes for it. She works a day job and then raises sheep and chickens and grows vegetables in her spare time. She doesn’t care what’s on TV and would rather hang out with her neighbors, playing her fiddle at potlucks. Unlike some memoirs of this ilk, there’s not a judgmental or negative bone in this book’s body. I love the fact that the author is sincere and sweet. This was a short memoir that left me wanting to hang out with Jenna. Grade: B
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A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe, edited by Conlon, Emerick, and De Tessan – Maybe I’ve OD-ed on travel memoirs for the time being. These were readable enough but not outstanding and I started to get a bit bored with the book. The editors certainly did do a nice job of picking a wide range of travel destinations, and helpfully began each essay with a world map highlighting the respective destination. Grade: B-
Barnheart by Jenna Woginrich – In a world filled with snarky, sarcastic memoirs, this book comes as a breath of fresh country air. Jenna Woginrich is obsessed with wanting to become a farmer. She has very little money, no relatives who farm, limited experience – but she goes for it. She works a day job and then raises sheep and chickens and grows vegetables in her spare time. She doesn’t care what’s on TV and would rather hang out with her neighbors, playing her fiddle at potlucks. Unlike some memoirs of this ilk, there’s not a judgmental or negative bone in this book’s body. I love the fact that the author is sincere and sweet. This was a short memoir that left me wanting to hang out with Jenna. Grade: B
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