Another #sentenceoftheday #RichardRusso #BridgeofSighs #booksky #Venice #amreading "I'm starting with the squid ink risotto, and you should, too," Hugh announced once they were settled.

Half of the novel is set in Venice, the other half in Smalltown, USA. The Venice part: "Arriving ... at Harry's, Noonan's least favorite restaurant in Venice, he ... found Hugh ensconced at the bar, surrounded by young Italian men & holding court in flamboyant Italian ... #booksky #sentenceoftheday

#sentenceoftheday #RichardRusso #booksky "My mother had, more than once in my young life, suggested that she knew me better than I knew myself, so I supposed it was possible." I picked up this book because I thought it was set in Venice but it isn't. It's about WANTING to go to Venice, lol

#sentenceoftheday #amreading #BridgeofSighs #RichardRusso #booksky "You don't identify with people worse off than you are."

#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #roadtrip #booksky Final chapter: "By exercising historical discipline & not stopping anywhere else, we (the author took her son along 4 this trip) made it all the way 2 Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, bfore nightfall. "#recommendedreading

4th #sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #UShistory #booksky #RosaParks Final chapter: "In 1955, the same year Rosa Parks made her stand in Montgomery, Alabama, Walt Disney opened a theme park in Anaheim, California."

Still another #sentenceoftheday from #ThisLandIsYourLand Ch. 11: "I wanted to spend the night in a nuclear missile silo." #roadtrip #BeverlyGage #booksky

Still another #sentenceoftheday #booksky #BeverlyGage #UShistory #roadtrip #ThisLandIsYourLand, Chapter 11: "Manzanar sits just on the other side of Death Valley, near the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, on a flat dusty strip pressed up against snowcapped grandeur."

Another #Sentenceoftheday #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage #UShistory #recommendedreading Chapter 11: "Even today, #Manzanar feels remote."

#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #UShistory #LosAlamos #booksky Chapter 11: "The most impt day in Los Alamos history occurred on July 16, 1945, when Oppenheimer & his scientific team detonated a nuclear weapon in a remote desert grassland near Alamogordo, NM, a town of several thousand residents . . "

#sentenceoftheday #amreading #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #solotravel #roadtrip #USHistory #BeverlyGage #readmorewomen "I wandered down the hill and into the gathering, armed only with my notebook, camera, and voice recorder."

#BeverlyGage #SentenceoftheDay #roadtrip #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #solotravel Chapter 5: "Traveling alone as a middle-aged woman is an uneven experience: day after day of irrelevance & anonymity punctuated by the occasional moment of threat or contempt."

Yet another #UShistory #slavery #sentenceoftheday #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #BeverlyGage "In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery," something the Founders "had barely considered."

Ch. 3 of #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #sentenceoftheday #UShistory #expulsion "During the 1820s & 1830s, the federal govt expelled not only the Five Civilized Tribes, but also Delawares and Kickapoos, Potawatomis & Miamis, Peorias & Meskwakis & Ottawas -- some 80,000 people, all told."

#sentenceoftheday #amreading #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #UShistory "In the spring of 1838, Andrew Jackson's handpicked successor Martin van Buren began sending US troops to round up all Cherokee . . . thrusting them into hastily constructed concentration camps to await deportation west."

#sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #booksky #USNationalParks #SaveOurParks "Despite recent budget cuts & political attacks, there's no traveling the country's historic sites without encountering the Park Service's fleet of good-hearted, army-green-clad, campaign-hat-wearing rangers."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #amreading #UShistory #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #declarationofindependence The political theorist Daniel Allen has noted, "no more important sentence has ever been written" on the subject of equality than the Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal."

#quoteoftheday #sentenceoftheday #amreading #ushistory #roadtrip #booksky #womenhistorians #wisdom #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand "Americans can be patriots and critics, citizens and dissenters, all at once."

#booksky #sentenceoftheday #BeverlyGage #ThisLandIsYourLand #ushistory #womenhistorians "As a citizen, I love my country, & I hate when its patriotic symbols --the flag, the national anthem, the founding --are co-opted by narrow-minded people who claim that they & they alone are the true Americans."

Another #sentenceoftheday from #BeverlyGage #amreading #booksky #ThisLandIsYourLand #roadtrip: "I was taught early on that women had become equal too, and that 1972 was the best possible moment in all of human history for a little girl to be born."