I liked this book just fine. I am trying to figure out if I will never read any more of Sarah Vowell’s books or all of them. I think my issue is that I have to imagine it’s a lot of the same. Not to say that the different subject matters don’t change, but the format is similar. I listened to the audiobook version which has the same issue. You have to love Sarah Vowell’s voice, which is fine by me, but more so you […]
The Lancelot of the Revolutionary Set
So I starting listening to this last fall, pre the arrival of Little Beth Ellen. Then I didn’t go anywhere for months, so it took coming off of maternity leave and commuting to work again to finish it up. The reason I was excited for this one was twofold: I’m Hamilton obsessed, just like the rest of the world, but also I, like many others, grew up in a town named for the man (also the only one in the country spelled correctly, a fun […]
“Oui oui, mon ami, je m’appelle Lafayette! The Lancelot of the revolutionary set!”
Guyyyyys this book. It took me almost three months to read it, when I expected to finish it in a couple of days! I just didn’t like it very much, and I’m not sure why. It might be that it was the first Sarah Vowell book I’ve listened to on audiobook, but I don’t think so. I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and I love Sarah Vowell’s voice (not to mention the voices of her many stellar audiobook guests, including John Slattery as Lafayette, […]
Everyone Give it up for America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman
Like many people, I’ve been listening to the Hamilton soundtrack non-stop and learning more about the American Revolutionary War than I ever did in school. Lafayette is easily one of the coolest characters in the musical, but also in real life. I’d been meaning to get to one of Sarah Vowell’s books, so when she published Lafayette in the Somewhat United States in October, it was kismet. Vowell tells the story of the teenaged Marquis de Lafayette leaving his family in France to join the […]