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The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shara

Another great Civil War novel by Jeff Shara. I have to say that I was having a rather stressful week when I was listening to this so a lot of the time I wasn't actually listening, but what I did pay attention to was very good. This is the last book in the series on the Civil War by Shara and his father, Michael Shara. I was very close to crying in the end, there were definitely tears there.
Shara is so good at putting a person behind the historical figures in his novels. There was emotion and reason behind the characters actions, they were all different and unique in their own way. There was a personal connection between the reader and the men who changed American and even world history.
That is the way I like to learn my history.

1984 by George Orwell

Good ol' George... Another political satire that just makes you think, "Oh my bob, this is scary...". There are way too many things in this book that relate to today, way too many. And the ending is just plain sad.
Gotta love it.

Read for school:

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Wow, dude has some serious reality issues... Very good to read and study when analyzing the lead up of the genre of science fiction. Horrible pleasure reading... Good thing I was reading it for the former purpose.

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

I remember reading this in the Illustrated Classics version a long time ago and I liked it then as well. Of course, I was able to get some new things out of it and actually figure out what it all means now but its still as entertaining as ever.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I loved this book. I laughed, I cried, I cringed. It was good times. And that's all I can really say.

The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

This is the book my first test in Journalism was on (see previous post). I learned so much from this book, probably because I didn't know anything about journalism when I started. It was incredibly informative and easy to understand.

Right now I am listening to Gods and Generals by Jeff Shara. I had started reading it on the road trip to VA but didn't finish it and don't have time to do the actual reading part so I'm finishing it up with the audio book version.

I'm reading short stories for my English class and am almost done with (or have to be done with by Monday) The Sociology of News by Michael Schudson, a professor at UCSD (University of California San Diego). Not as good as Elements but I'll talk about that later.

I do love books...

(Sorry about all the fuzzy pictures... They're close enough.)