It is fun to read any book I want just with a click of the iPad. Last night I finished a biography of the Duchess of Devonshire, and it brought back memories of the romances I read when I was very young. All the people from the Prince of Wales (Prinny) to William Pitt, the Dukes, Earls, and Lady this or that were the same. Yet, the truth was both better and worse. Women like the Duchess did more than think of romance and the next ball. But, unlike the fiction, they did not find true love in marriage, and there is no denying that their lives as women were terribly circumscribed.
I fear the movie, The Duchess, based on the book would end up more of an R-rated Barbara Cartland novel than an actual biography. But, that's because there is more of an audience for romance novels than biographies! Phil says I'm probably the only person to even have a favorite biographer (David McCullough), but at least a few of his biographies have been made into mini-series (even if it is just on HBO and PBS)!
In other "education" news, I read the new fourth grade social studies text and started to set up my new classroom. Today, I'll do a little more unpacking, at 1:00 we leave for Madison to watch the USA vs. Sweden's World Cup game. Then, it's on to Sasha's softball game in Sauk. Yesterday, when we lazed around Madison and enjoyed a relaxing evening at home is the only type of day I like better than this one.
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