freddy and fredericka

i'm not going to regularly do this, but i just finished a book that i really enjoyed so i'm just going to link to my goodreads review. not everyone is going to like this book -- i don't really think my husband would, and i know my mother wouldn't -- but i really did. for me it read like a love letter to my country, and after what the last two years of presidential campaigning have done to us, it made me happy to remember what is great about us. i like Mark Helprin.

Freddy, on America: "I was born to be a king, and you were born not to have one. America does not need and cannot have a king, for it is majestic in itself as perhaps no country has ever been.... Its greatest majesty, its gift to the world, is that it has carried out God's will to make each man a king, subservient only to Him."

Freddy and Fredericka

My review