Recent books
Dec. 28th, 2008 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ezekielsdaughterWell, I have another book to rave about: Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. A member of the Carl Brandon Society recommended it in the yahoo forum. It’s just become another one of those books that I wish that I could convince others to read. It’s the first of a pair, so I have to make a journey to the youth section of the library to find the second book. Yes—the kids’ section. I would argue that the adult section of the library needs its own copy, but I am too glad to find it anywhere.
It’s such a marvelously subversive historical fiction. The summary on the copyright page reads: “Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.” The only thing that the summary does not mention is that Octavian is an enslaved African child.
Next up (and already checked out) is Generation Kill. I was curious to find out how the book differed from the TV show.
It’s such a marvelously subversive historical fiction. The summary on the copyright page reads: “Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.” The only thing that the summary does not mention is that Octavian is an enslaved African child.
Next up (and already checked out) is Generation Kill. I was curious to find out how the book differed from the TV show.
