2 book recommendations

I have been spending a large amount of my time lately reading. Gosh, I love reading.

One thing about being here that I enjoy most of the time is the public transportation. When I was in college I used to drive long distances to get to school. Anyone who knows me knows I disliked small towns (ha, funny that I live in one now) and that I like the finer things in life, therefore I used to live far from where my University was and way in the heart of a nice city. I used to spend so much time driving that I would get irritated thinking about how much time I was wasting and how I wish I could have a driver or an alternative form of transportation so I could make good use of that time I had to spend traveling.

Now, the tables have turned and I am living in a small village (also known as a suburb but a small village nonetheless) instead of the city and traveling to the city, but I still spend at least an hour traveling to get into the heart of Paris every time I want to go. Since being here I have told myself time and time again that I need to make good use of that time I am sitting on a bus, train or metro as that is exactly what I had been wishing for for the past several years and that is what I have been doing.

I spent so much time listening to podcasts, music, reading, sleeping, etc, but lately, with the weather being nice and inspiring me to learn new things, I have been spending quite a bit of time reading.

All that to say, here are a few books I highly recommend. Now, take these recommendations as you wish because I have come to realize I have a very specific type of book I like to read: American heroism. haha. So if you aren't American or don't like biographies/auto biographies then you might not be as interested in these books, but I think they are worth reading and if you have the same interests in books, then I say its worth your time!!

1. When Hell Was In Session
This book is about Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. who was a POW in North Vietnam for 7 years during the Vietnam War. He was tortured for many of those years by the North Vietnamese and refused to give up or give in. This book is incredible but also very gory. It tells of how he was put on tv at one point and blinked in morse code that he was being tortured for the world to known and the Vietnamese never caught on until after he had been released. It's incredible to learn the lengths these POW's went through to not give any information to the Vietnamese that could harm the Americans during war, but took all the penalties in the world.

2. Let's Roll
This book I just started yesterday, but I am reading it for the second time. It's another rather sad story as it was written by Lisa Beamer, the wife of one of the heroic men and women who were tragedy killed on 9-11. Her husband was on the plane who crashed into the field in Pennsylvania and she tells about his life and what an incredible man he was to all around him, but also, the great lengths he went to on that plane with the hijackers and the people aboard. I read this book when i was in high school, for the first time, and had requested to have it sent to Paris so I could reread it and I am already enjoying it again. It's an easy read but a good one.

Anyways, I hope you find these recommendations useful and I hope you are all enjoying some book under the warm sun some this week or weekend!

Love, me