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My knowledge of American history is lacking. To an extent, it's to be expected - after all, I am Canadian. Every year on the Fourth of July I'm reminded of this. I go and seek out books about American history and add that to that list of books to read to read some day in the future. (That list never seems to get shorter.) I thought that this year I'd share my findings on what to read on Independence Day.
Let's start with books. I found this huge list of Independence day reads on Myshelf.com. It is a list that truly does have something for everyone - mysteries, romance, non-fiction, young adult literature and even a cookbook.
I found fourth of July children's books recommendations from Parents Connect and Families Online Magazine.
The Boston Book Festival recommends nine books to start reading this Independence Day weekend.
About.com's Classic Literature maven, Esther Lombardi, offers up two reading lists for this weekend, The Top Ten Founding Fathers' Literature list and the Top Ten Books about Freedom and Liberty.
The Davenport Library Info Cafe has suggestions for reading this fourth of July, including James Patterson's 4th of July, which SuziQOregon calls "brain candy."
And perhaps because of the big movie releases about the same topic, I cannot think of Independence Day without thinking of H.G. Wells' War Of The Worlds. Nadia, aka Book Worm read it earlier this year.
The way Wells writes the story, it's almost like you are reading non-fiction. I liked his style of writing, the storyline was fun and i'm glad I read this one.
If we want to turn to poetry, Lisa is a Canadian but points everyone to Shel Silverstein for Independence Day. Don't you just love Shel Silverstein?
Elaine, aka Wild Rose Reader chose the poem "Independence Day Parade" for Poetry Friday, while Felicity posted the poem "I hear America singing."
Lesa posted The Declaration of Independence on her blog. What is more appropriate than that, except maybe listening to it? She posted a link to NPR's reading of it on her blog as well.
One of my favorite things to do on the 4th of July is to listen to the reading of the Declaration of Independence on NPR Radio. I just missed it this morning, but fortunately, they've published it on the website, and you can actually listen to their commentators read it. It's the best way to experience it, listening to those beautiful words read by those unique voices.
Happy Fourth of July! I hope you all have a fantastic Independence Day weekend!
Contributing Editor Sassymonkey also blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
