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Got 4 books read this week. When last we met I was reading Karma for Beginners by Jessica Blank. I do believe I mentioned it was a little "crunchy granola". Not meant to be pejorative, but yeah. And then it took a very strange turn. I guess you could call it a 'coming of age' type book? I don't know. Some of the stuff was very 'eat, pray, love', but not in a good way.
Next up a YA book about Catherine Howard called The King’s Rose by Alisa Libby. Fiction kids, very much so. Told from Catherine's, alleged, POV. It was okay; a good introduction into the genre for the younger set. There is a book I want to read about her called Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII by Gareth Russell which is non-fiction. I'm still looking for it.
The next two books I read, well, I'd read a bit about the story when it happened but I was a young mother with very young children and just didn't want to. Both books popped up on the digital loans so I checked them both out and read them back to back. First was Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. Oh my. And this version had the added bits in about Krakauer's speculation on exactly how Chris died. This is the 2nd book I've read by Krakauer (the first being Under the Banner of Heaven about the Lafferty brothers and fundamental Mormonism), and I'm still quite impressed with his detective work. He did juxtapose Chris' story with his own a bit, which in my opinion, made Chris' story all the more poignant. I think if I had read the book when it first came out, I would have been less sympathetic to Chris and his struggles. Now I can be more objective. I seriously doubt that he was trying to commit suicide, I think he fully intended to walk out of Alaska the same way he walked in. I do think he had the whole ICBM attitude of youth. The whole story is tragic.
Which brings me to The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless. This book was written about 8 years AFTER Into the Wild. There is a foreward by Jon Krakauer and I did wonder if this book would refute any of his writings. Not so, rather it enhanced and broadened the story. There are just too many people, living what they think is the good life whilst really not. The McCandless children were not living the good life. If you are going to read about this topic I recommend that you read Krakauer's book first, then McCandless'.
As I tend to get stuck in a rut, I'm now reading Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. He really is a fine author. In my opinion.
Next up a YA book about Catherine Howard called The King’s Rose by Alisa Libby. Fiction kids, very much so. Told from Catherine's, alleged, POV. It was okay; a good introduction into the genre for the younger set. There is a book I want to read about her called Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII by Gareth Russell which is non-fiction. I'm still looking for it.
The next two books I read, well, I'd read a bit about the story when it happened but I was a young mother with very young children and just didn't want to. Both books popped up on the digital loans so I checked them both out and read them back to back. First was Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. Oh my. And this version had the added bits in about Krakauer's speculation on exactly how Chris died. This is the 2nd book I've read by Krakauer (the first being Under the Banner of Heaven about the Lafferty brothers and fundamental Mormonism), and I'm still quite impressed with his detective work. He did juxtapose Chris' story with his own a bit, which in my opinion, made Chris' story all the more poignant. I think if I had read the book when it first came out, I would have been less sympathetic to Chris and his struggles. Now I can be more objective. I seriously doubt that he was trying to commit suicide, I think he fully intended to walk out of Alaska the same way he walked in. I do think he had the whole ICBM attitude of youth. The whole story is tragic.
Which brings me to The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless. This book was written about 8 years AFTER Into the Wild. There is a foreward by Jon Krakauer and I did wonder if this book would refute any of his writings. Not so, rather it enhanced and broadened the story. There are just too many people, living what they think is the good life whilst really not. The McCandless children were not living the good life. If you are going to read about this topic I recommend that you read Krakauer's book first, then McCandless'.
As I tend to get stuck in a rut, I'm now reading Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. He really is a fine author. In my opinion.
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