Non-Fiction

JitterbugPerfume

(18,183 posts) Tue Dec 13, 2011, 12:57 AM Dec 2011

Sarah Vowell!

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I am half way through "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" , A collection of essays. She is funny , smart and well informed. Next is "Assassination Vacation" a learned , engagingly discursive, funny , sometimes even jolly ramble--literally--through the landscape of American presidential assassinations,

at least according to the book cover .

She has been on The Daily Show, where she proved to behe was charming and smart.

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Sarah Vowell! (Original Post) JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 OP

I've read "Unfamiliar Fishes", her account of the annexation of Hawaii by the U. S. Jim Lane Dec 2011 #1

I really liked her Evacuation Day bit. ellisonz Dec 2011 #2

+1 HuckleB Dec 2011 #4

"Partly Cloudy" is awesome! HuckleB Dec 2011 #3

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Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

1. I've read "Unfamiliar Fishes", her account of the annexation of Hawaii by the U. S.

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 01:29 AM

Dec 2011

I knew we'd done all kinds of bad stuff en route from the East Coast to the West Coast but I'd never really thought about Hawaii. The book is a case study of how imperialism works.

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)

2. I really liked her Evacuation Day bit.

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 01:19 PM

Dec 2011

HuckleB

(35,773 posts)

4. +1

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 10:19 PM

Dec 2011

That was awesome, too!

HuckleB

(35,773 posts)

3. "Partly Cloudy" is awesome!

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 10:18 PM

Dec 2011

"Take The Cannoli" is just as awesome!

Her books with multiple essays are best, IMO. She can get lost in her books that address a single topic of sorts. Still, even those are very entertaining and educational.