November was a fun books on Amazon reading month covering titles spanning categories like the Civil War, Coaching, and Spy Fiction. These books included Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, Coach Wooden One-On-One, and The Heist.
All of these books on Amazon are fantastic reads but I’ll give the top book from November to Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. Author Tony Horwitz knows how to tell a story by weaving together narratives from the point of view of many different individuals. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War is certainly the most unique book of these three books.
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
In this 10-state southern adventure, author Tony Horwitz tells the Civil War story in the present day (the book was written in the 90s) through the eyes of reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants, and other Southerners. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War starts in North Carolina and continues to South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Experiences that stood out to me include Horwitz’s tour of Fort Sumter in Charleston South Carolina; the carnage in Kentucky that erupted after a white teen with a rebel flag on a truck was killed by a gunshot from a car with black teenagers; the reenactment of famous Virginia battles including the Battle of the Wilderness, Manassas, and Antietam; visiting Shiloh National Military Park in Tennesse during its annual memorial; the massacre that happened to prisoners of war at Andersonville, Georgia; walking the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama, the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday in the 60s when police attacked Civil Rights Movement demonstrators.
Coach Wooden One-On-One
I’m getting toward the finish line of books written by Coach John Wooden. Each book has been enlightening in its own way. In Coach Wooden One-On-One, Coach Wooden teams up with Jay Carty. The book offers 60 daily readings, one page written by John Wooden and the next page written by Jay Carty. Wooden’s pages focus on leadership and life lessons he wants to pass on to the next generation. Carty’s pages are a reflection, scripture, and prayer.
The Heist
London art dealer Julian Isherwood stumbles into the murder scene of British spy Jack Bradshaw in Lake Como, Italy in The Heist. The Italian police catch Isherwood in a bind. The police know he’s not a suspect. However, the police implement leverage by convincing legendary Israeli spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon to come to help his friend. To prevent his friend Isherwood from staying in jail, the Italian police force Allon to find a missing masterpiece: Caravaggio’s Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence. To find this masterpiece, Allon decides it’s best to steal Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, a masterpiece in its own right. The hunt to find Bradshaw’s killers reveals a Middle East dictator and an Austrian bank are involved. Allon’s hunt takes him from Marseilles to Corsica to Paris to Geneva to Austria.
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