"The Wedding Gift" by Marlen Suyapa Bodden was a moving story of Sarah, a slave who dreams of being free, and her white half-sister, Clarissa. They grow up together, first Sarah is Clarissa's playmate, and then her maid. Sarah's mother teaches them both to read and write, even though it's against the law for slaves to have that knowledge. Sarah marries Isaac, her mulatto cousin, while Clarissa puts off her marriage to wealthy Julius Cromwell for as long as she can, until she discovers she is pregnant. A scant five months after marriage, she gives birth. Sarah recognizes the child as Isaac's, and the Cromwell's throw Clarissa out because it's obvious the baby is partially black. Clarissa, Sarah, and the baby go back to Clarissa's family but her father is having none of it and send the child to an orphanage and lets Clarissa die of childbed fever. I really liked the ending, it was a good story.
"History Decoded" by Brad Meltzer was fun. I'm not a huge conspiracy theorist type of person, like Area 51 for example, I don't particularly care what's being hidden (if anything) out there. But it's still interesting to read about the different mysteries that have never been solved, like D. B. Cooper and the Confederate gold.
P. J. O'Rourke always makes me laugh, and his latest "Baby Boom", was very funny. He turns his wit on himself and his generation. It made me nostalgic for a life I never even lived.
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