I've been wanting to read Hamilton by Ron Chernow for ages now. This 2004 release has been on my mind since I first saw Hamilton the musical on Disney Plus. I quickly became obsessed and watched it a million times.
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| Update: DNF. Chernow is a great writer, but I'm ill in the mood to read about slavery as economic trade. I DO NOT CARE about the "times". |
For my mom's birthday, I took her and my daughter to Broadway to watch it live and now I can't stop thinking about it! I met someone at the theater who helped me to realize that I really need to read this book!
I barely got sleep last night, and after making it home from the hospital today, I downloaded the ebook AND the audiobook from my library. At 818 pages (and 1.0x speed), I am going to take my time with this one and make a goal to finish it before the end of the year if possible, if not, no worries.
I love having nonfiction stories in the background of my reading.
They are so grounding and as a someone who studied psychology for years and years, I am fascinated by what and why people do the things they do. To study and learn the ways that people lived their lives will always astound me.
This is what happens when we live our lives out in the real world.
Literature always mixing with it. We don't do it to impress anyone. We don't do it in order to garner any "followers" or "friends" online, but rather because we HAVE to. (Double negative coming)... we can't NOT do it. We MUST mix these worlds, lives, stories, and characters together.
I love my kindle. I absolutely love having all my books with me at one time. I'll travel with one of my paperwhites and enjoy pulling it out everywhere from standing in line, to hopsital waiting rooms.
Sure I can't connect with a fellow reader who can see the cover of my book, but I CAN go between 600 and 800 page tomes with the turn of a finger. It's pure magic.
Happy times connecting life + literature my slow living friends.
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