America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines by Gail Collins

Hello there and welcome to my first Currently Reading page.

Non-fiction:
America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines by Gail Collins

I'm 314 pages into this bad girl and I can't seem to put her down. The book tells of the history of women in America from the late 17th century up into the 1960's. (The second book picks up from the 60's.) I'm hooked on this book because it's told as a story. Gail writes about the women as if she had personally interviewed some of them herself and it makes for a fun and entertaining read. I'm fascinated with the sheer determination and fight that these ladies endured just to get what some of us take for granted today. For example, voting or walking down the street without a male escort or role reversals, where some dads stay home and mom goes out to earn a living. We owe Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many more ladies before us our gratitude. For without their efforts, we would not have a voice today.

 Fiction:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Some people call me crazy or weird, but yes, I can read more than one or two books at a time. As for my fictional read, I have never read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and have always wanted too. I'm drawn to literature more now as an adult because I feel the pressure to find the same meaning of the story as a professor teaching a literature class has finally ended in my life. Thank goodness for graduating university.

I'm enjoying this read. Odd as it maybe, I believe that each of us at one point or another can relate to Alice. Disney's version is fun to watch, but truly doesn't compare to the story or message that Lewis Carroll left.


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