fwiw I've been in a book club with some friends/couples for quite a while now. It can be fun and rewarding or a total slog, but we've calibrated it to be pretty low-key and enjoyable. I remember we really had to button it down after people kept joining just to assign everyone to read some book they loved, then never really come back.
I mean just me and her… lol.
This is what happens when you play Captain Beefheart.
I liked this one quite a bit too. A really fun read...and nice artwork.
I thought I had posted Book #1, but I hadn’t done so.
Book 3 - Educated - Tara Westover
This was... a lot. I had heard this was good but I didn't expect there to be so much abuse and gaslighting. It was definitely impactful and inspiring but I need a palate cleanser now...
It probably doesn't help that I grew up around very religious people (baptists, not mormon). My sister and I went to public school and had a relatively non-toxic upbringing (though I'm not religious anymore), but I knew a lot of anti-intellectual, homeschool families that had some similar opinions about family dynamics/control/the government.
A ton. What are you precisely looking for?
The buildup to the Civil War. That's a great part about the Alamo book. It's not just the stock Texas hero myth I was given in 7th grade Texas History class of "fighting against the oppression and overtaxation of Mexico and the dictator Santa Anna". It really dives into all the little things that started the Texas revolt and exposed the fear of losing slavery under further Mexican rule in a time when Texas was exporting a ton of cotton.
