Books, books, and text books.

Crystal Soldier continues to be one of the best reads I've had in years. It's one of those books you want to hit people with because they're not reading it.

Circuit Rider's Wife has been assigned for Documentation and Interpretation of a Historic Site class (we're going to be working at the Corra Harris house...doing something...) and it's a better read than you expect. Sort of weird, and raw, and her attitude towards the people around her is eye opening, especially for the late nineteen hundreds. This and the book we had three semesters ago of Diary and Letter excerpts are nothing but primary sources- one of my favorite things about being a History Major.

And then there's the textbook that came in the mail today that wound up being topical to the news. Mom says there's some big to-do about having Southern Belle dress up people at the inauguration since it could be seen as racist, but it's the only thing besides people dressed up as cans of Coke that could stereotypically represent the South in my mind. It's Slavery and Public History. I've got another one coming about the fiasco at the Smithsonian when they showed the Enola Gay; History Wars.

Prize winner for weirdest book discovered this week is Bones: Burried Deep. It's for a tv show based on a series of books by Kathy Reichs about a forensic anthropologist named Temperence Brennan. In the show Temperence writes books about Kathy. And now you can get a book written by a guy, based on the tv show, since the books are a bit different from the show. It's so chicken-or-the-egg I was baffled to see it.