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I managed to finish 'The Jungle,' Upton Sinclair's work about the Chicago stockyards and the people working them at the turn of the century. Brilliant discriptions through the first 2/3rds of the book, but then it got bogged down in political rhetoric for the last 50 pages.
I've switched to some swashbuckling historical fiction by Kenneth Roberts called 'The Lively Lady,' the name of the ship captained by a young man from Arundel, Maine during the War of Impressment with England in the early 1800's. I'd read all of Kenneth Robert's books as a teenager, and loved them, but was never able to find any in digital form until recently. Some of the very best historical fiction ever written, still grabbing me from page one. I can't put it down!
Stitchawl
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