Biographies
Today I went to the new Boca Raton library. It is a beautiful facility and they have a great selection of books. It was a pleasure to go and do some reading there. I got to read some biographies today and they had some I hadn't read before. My favorite one was called "Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable life of Bass Reeves" by Vaunda Michaux Nelson. It's about a law man named Bass Reeves who started his life as a slave but ended up a famous sheriff. It was a great story with lots of interesting details about Bass (who could shoot straight with both hands and was pretty tricky about arresting bad guys). Here's a book trailer about it. The second one I read was "To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt" by Doreen Rappaport. I love the way Doreen Rappaport writes biographies. She weaves together a story of the person's life, along with quotes from their own writing or spoken words in that is visually pleasing as well as ...