January 2021 Reading List

I got off to a solid start this new year towards achieving my reading goal of 52 books a year. Here are the books I read this January:

I really enjoyed Kristin's follow up to her first book The Dirty Life. I would definitely read both books again. I really enjoy reading books about people who farm land themselves. I have a huge amount of respect for people (not corporations) that do so. 

I am not a huge fan of Bill O'Reilly's politics, so I have avoided reading his books for years. I figured that they would just be an extension of his political beliefs instead of facts about history. I cannot tell you why I picked up this book, but I did, and I can say that I actually enjoyed it for both the story it told and the way it was told. 

I don't know if it is just me, but I thought based on the title of this book that it would be all about Crazy Horse and the Sioux Indians. Wrong. Crazy Horse does not show up in this book until about 2/3 of the way through it. The book is mainly about Indian wars throughout the country - which is cool and all, but I felt that the title was very misleading. I don't like being bamboozled by an author especially when I feel that he used Crazy Horse to sell more books. I was willing to read this book because I enjoyed O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln - I don't know that I will pick up another one of his books now because this book had so little to do with Crazy Horse. I felt like I was misled. 

I cannot tell you why, but I had an itch to read this series over again, and so I am. I am pretty sure I will be team Jacob for ever. 

Total Number of Books Read: 

January - 5