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In honor of Labor Day, I wanted to get your input on choosing a longer book. I get restless easily, and even if I like the book, I get tired of being in the same world if it takes me too long. But every now and then, I like going down the rabbit hole of a longer work, especially if it's a little weird. These 3 have been on my list for awhile: are any of these favorites of yours? Or did any disappoint, even if you usually like the author?

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

The narration was excellent, but the way it was written was confusing for me as someone new to the study of 17th century England. I didn‘t understand why some aspects were heavily covered and some were barely touched on.
3/5 Read for a brief history of the British Civil War, a long history of the religious turmoil that led to it, & a smattering of history of thought, including an in depth but limited in scope discussion of The Blazing World

“When captain Lewis called out the names of those brave heroes, my name was not included. That‘s when it first became clear that my return home would not be celebrated as everyone else‘s.”

This book could be used in a classroom to help tell a little know story, I think it would be an excellent addition to a lesson done to help highlight an amazing man who gets little credit. This book will probably tie in really well to Black History Month.

This book tells the little known story of an enslaved man on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Illustrations in this book were really really good and the story itself was very impactful. Overall, I rather enjoy this book.

💙 I read every day, but the page count varies widely depending on the book, my mood, and my schedule.
💙 Empress of the East (tagged). I was so looking forward to an interesting history, but the author was far too biased.
💙 The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
Thanks for the tag @Deblovestoread

I was disappointed by this. The history is interesting enough, but there was clear Western bias on the author's part that I just couldn't get past.

Medieval imposture? Arnault Du Tihl learned and remembered every aspect of the missing Martin Guerre and lived as him for 3 yrs, having two children with his wife before he found himself accused of imposture. Then he almost won his case. Fun stuff - a 1980 history book that‘s still quite fascinating, and short. (3.5 hrs on audio, and free on audible)

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