These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The President's Lady: A Novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson; by Irving Stone.
In this Stone takes up the era of exploration of the land and large part of continent that is now USA, and the story of a good woman and a good man who were maligned due to the then conventions for no fault of their own - the fault in fact lay with the man who had lied and allowed them to believe that there had been a divorce, while he had simply not done it. Much life threatening dangers were braved by the explorers, which is difficult in this era of mobile (cell) phones and GPS and so on to imagine.