Home after a good b'fast with Dad and a really nice kid/runner/Saki filled day. Yay!
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel PhilbrickMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A fascinating "listen"--another book that had me telling everyone factoids and left me with a major crush on Benjamin Church, tho I was a tad disillusioned by the fact that in later life he became so fat he needed two supporters to help him walk! I expected a heart-wrenching story, but the truth (as it so often is) was a tad more complicated: there were heroes and villains on both sides, and even the sides themselves changed and morphed. Squanto was not the hero I learned about in grade school (I'd accepted long ago that he didn't wear feathers stapled to the elastic from an old pair of briefs, either). . . neither was Miles Standish! Philbrick definitely does not gloss over the violence, but he doesn't dwell on it, either.
Mayflower would be great addition to any US History class!
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