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my pie in the sky wishlist at powells. really though, i can get more book elsewhere for cheaper so i'm all about the gift certificates! ;)
i'm not interested in making any money off of any of this, i just wanted to be able to post the book cover pictures because that's prettier and more interesting.
theoretically, i would get a comission off of any purchases through this site, but a) i'm not expecting a dime, and b) if i do get a dime, it'll go to a charity. which? not sure. if you have any ideas/inclinations, please tell me.
also, check out the following sites for (usually) cheaper prices: bookfinder.com, alibris.com, overstock.com, & bookcloseouts.com.
this was a really sad book, filled with gruesome and horrible scenes. i have never been really interested in the civil war and definitely i’ve never been into reading about wars. i don’t know why, but this book, despite being a pretty realistic novel about the civil war, appealed to me for a long time and when i finally stumbled upon it, i started reading and couldn’t stop till i finished.
this book flat-out depressed me: just thinking about all the horrible things people have done to each other in the name of war, and usually in the name of someone else’s war. how the women and children and old people are affected even though they have no active role in creating or continuing the war… it just made me so sick to read, though at the same time, the way the story was told was so beautiful. that combination is incredible – i just got caught up in it all, impatiently waiting for the next page..
(review written 03/27/04)