History is sooooo so so so interesting. To everyone. Young, old, rich, poor, everyone loves history. Something about it is wonderful, magical even. I get to give tours now of the U-505 submarine at the Museum and I'm totally digging everything that goes into it. It's like previous to this I had never heard of a submarine or something. All of a sudden doors have opened up and wars seem interesting to me. Never before have I been so intrigued by military machinery, no offense all the boys I know, but I just never have up until this point. I have three books that I'm going to try and get from the library so that I can read through them. Three boring-sounding books about submarines that I am so excited to read I could pee myself. I got to walk some kids through the submarine tonight and I decided that at the point I'm at now that was maybe a bad idea because the kids and I just kept going back and forth about how totally sweet it was to be on the inside of a real life submarine. I then realized that maybe I need to do my research and get over this fantasy of old-timey war. Most of my friends will be excited to know this spark of history interest has ignited a fire that may be difficult to put out anytime soon because not only am I now interested to know more about WWII (not that I didn't know a lot before I mean come ON we're all required to learn about that stuff in school just now I WANT to know) but I also am excited about US history in general. Ok, enough.
Aside from that, I went on a coal mine tour today, also very interesting. The machinery coal miners use is heavy duty stuff! Man alive, to think so many men got paid so little money to do so much work, and right here in Illinois no less!!! Yikes! Also, Billy Corgan was in the Museum today.
Hope your Wed was spectacular!!!
Lisa B.
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I've been reading history books almost exclusively on my trip. (and that's a lot of books). Currently I'm reading "American Caesar" the biography of Douglas MacArthur and the History of the Civil War audiobook by Shelby Foote.
I've also read a lot on the history of Rome, the British Monarchy, WWI, China, and the Khmer Empire.
I almost never read fiction, which is good and bad I guess.
It's like Mike said when we were talking about fiction, "why read about a guy somebody else made up when I could read about real guys that were more interesting and did some stuff?"
you should dig into Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon - all spies, codes and submarines.
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