I've been on a big reading kick lately. And, of all things, reading biographies! It all started one day I was at work with mom--she works in a high school library--and I was just looking on the shelves and saw a biography on Joan of Arc. If you go to/went to Longwood, you'll know that I had to pick it up and least skim through it. Well, I read about twenty pages and I just could not keep going. No offense, to Longwood's patron saint, but those first twenty pages were so boring and I just could not get through it! I took it back to the shelf and saw a John F. Kennedy biography. I wrote about that book here, but after finishing it, I went to the county library and picked up five new biographies. I finished them all in a about a week and a half. They were so good! As soon as I finished those (and took pictures for this post...), I went back to the library and picked up five different ones, which I'm currently in the middle of reading.
I have no idea why there's the sudden interest in reading biographies. I remember in middle school I had to read a biography about Abraham Lincoln for summer reading, and I didn't like it one bit. It probably mostly had to do with the fact that it was REQUIRED reading and not just something I wanted to do for fun.
So, the first five biographies/autobiographies I picked up were:
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Michael J. Fox
- Tina Fey
- Betty White
- Jessica Lynch
