a few more years shall roll

it’s been a long time since i read a good biography. i ate them up when i was a kid. seriously, i read a biography of mary, queen of scots from my school library at least ten times. one of my favorites was abigail adams. the more i read about her, the more i wanted to know her.

throughout high school and college, biographies didn’t really make the reading list for classes, but as an english major, history minor, i was always interested in the lives of authors and poets as i was reading their work. hence my concentration in “american literature and society,” i suppose. since college, most biographies i’ve read have been of church fathers, reformers, preachers, missionaries (i strongly recommend the story of Ann Judson’s life My Heart in His Hands).

At the library last week, while I was picking up some videos (This is Spinal Tap (my first ever viewing!), X-men, and Clueless), I grabbed a copy of John Adams by David McCullough. I’m trying to read it slowly, usually on my bus rides to and from work. McCullough writes really well, using lots of personal correspondence between John and Abigail, which is fascinating. Their love and respect for each other is a true model. I haven’t even gotten to the Declariation of Independence yet, but I’m really enjoying this in-depth portrait of the man and his times.

shoot–i did the no caps to caps switch again, didn’t i?