A devourer of books I am so when I read an article about the subject of this book, something told me that I just had to read it. My local library had a few copies so I borrowed one. Have to admit that this book is nonfiction but reads like fiction. My hats off to the author. It is an interesting subject as I didn't even know of Miss Vinnie Warren Bump, aka Mrs Tom Thumb. I could sing praises but that is what real critics do but for those like me, I recommend this as it covers her early life, her first time away from family as she learns the perils of wicked men and how what we call freaks were just average people born into extraordinary circumstance that changed their lives. It covers how she first meet Mr. P.T. Barnum and how she would end up marrying General Tom Thumb. Her marriage was one out of business, not love but throughout it all, the voice of the woman herself sounds not like the voice of a woman born a dwarf but the voice of a bold and confident woman who would not allow limitations to stop her. I won't say more as it would spoil the book but below is the information you'll need to get your hands on a copy of a great nonfiction book through the local library or amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com:
Mrs. Tom Thumb
author - Melanie Benjamin
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
9/11 - what is wrong with us as a nation?!
Before all of you jump my ass for this post, I believe that we should honor the memory of the fallen but its the length of time and this country's collective mindset that has me pissed off. TEN YEARS PEOPLE! that is way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way too long to be stuck in this damn rut. time to move on and focus on other things like a president that has jacked up the economy so bad that the unemployment rate is high and we're on the brink of falling in a depression. Yes I had my own personal experiences when 9/11 happened and to be honest, any one heard of the adage that goes like this : PRIDE BEFORE THE FALL. We as a country were prideful that since Pearl Harbor, we have not been attack on our soil. It was our own damn pride that allowed for security laxes to be evident for that whole thing to happen. Three years after the event is plenty of time to mourn and reflect but then move on. Life keeps flowing and ebbing. Should we expect that those widows of 9/11 (who by the way are now millionaires due to this event) to be pining away in some hole? They are living their lives and its sad to say but this country has forgot that it has to keep living. Look at our Capitol, its full of monuments to men that are dead (don't get me start on the MLK memorial -thats a separate post ).
All these damn specials about it makes Pearl Harbor look like a footnote. I have heard all the reasons for this overplayed drama and be lucky I'm not sitting in the White house. The NY 9/11 memorial would be reduce to a small park, that flight 93 memorial would not even be as by the time they crashed, our own fighters were up in the air and took it out (go ahead and argue with me but i do ask that you consider that we were smart enough to have fighters to scramble once upon a time when this was a what if situation) and the pentagon - we have totally forgotten that the pentagon has lives lost. No, the towers were the only ones attacked and therefore we must act like simple minded fools. For Americans to still get weepy eye and feel a pain that should be dull by now is ridiculous and Bin Laden and his group have succeed!!!!!! No longer are we a nation that can get back onto its feet while a heart full of pain so we can show our enemies that we are proud, strong and defiant. Instead we got knock down and HAVE STAYED DOWN, weeping over healed wounds while our foes are laughing at us, mocking us. So we got Bin laden but he got us first and as long as we pull this stupid stuff, we have lost respect in the eyes of the world. Proud to be an American, answer would have been yes before 9/11 but now seeing how much of a simpering, whimpering, blabbering, wimp we as a nation became, my answer is what is an American now?
All these damn specials about it makes Pearl Harbor look like a footnote. I have heard all the reasons for this overplayed drama and be lucky I'm not sitting in the White house. The NY 9/11 memorial would be reduce to a small park, that flight 93 memorial would not even be as by the time they crashed, our own fighters were up in the air and took it out (go ahead and argue with me but i do ask that you consider that we were smart enough to have fighters to scramble once upon a time when this was a what if situation) and the pentagon - we have totally forgotten that the pentagon has lives lost. No, the towers were the only ones attacked and therefore we must act like simple minded fools. For Americans to still get weepy eye and feel a pain that should be dull by now is ridiculous and Bin Laden and his group have succeed!!!!!! No longer are we a nation that can get back onto its feet while a heart full of pain so we can show our enemies that we are proud, strong and defiant. Instead we got knock down and HAVE STAYED DOWN, weeping over healed wounds while our foes are laughing at us, mocking us. So we got Bin laden but he got us first and as long as we pull this stupid stuff, we have lost respect in the eyes of the world. Proud to be an American, answer would have been yes before 9/11 but now seeing how much of a simpering, whimpering, blabbering, wimp we as a nation became, my answer is what is an American now?
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