Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017--San Gil, Colombia
I finished The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride late last week. I really enjoyed the book which won the
2013 National Book Award for Fiction. It is about John Brown of
Harper's Ferry fame back in the mid-1800s just before the official
beginning of the Civil War. It tells the story of his private efforts
to free the slaves in the Missouri/Kansas border area through the
observations of a slave he took with him when the father was
accidentally killed and concludes with Harper's Ferry 5 years later.
Although I enjoyed the story, I gave the book a rating of 4 out of 5
because the writing could have been a bit better.
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