Assassination Vacation is a book by Sarah Vowell, published in 2005, in which she travels around the United States researching the assinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley and James Garfield. While most of the book is devoted to facts about the assassinated presidents and the men who would murder them, Vowell intersperses the book with anecdotes of the adventures that she took part in on her self-proclaimed 'pilgrimage' of presidential assassination.
Please remember to bring an appetizer, beverage or something to share. We will be meeting at 6:30pm and it usually runs 2 hours.
NPR has an excerpt and review of the book at their website: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4646283
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Several books to consider for our next read:
1. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's forgotten walk across Victorian America by Linda Hunt. This is a true story about a local woman who grew up in the Pacific Northwest .
2. The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (this was recommended by one of the Oly librarians).
3. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: a novel by Jamie Ford. After we read the novel we can check out the actual hotel which is located in Seattle
4. Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
5. A Girl Named Zippy: growing up small in Mooreland , Indiana
