How They Croaked

I know there was a large gap between review, over a year to be exact.  But that doesn't mean I didn't read.  Before I moved to Salem, I tried to read at least a few books during that period.  While I worked at an elementary school as a volunteer teacher assistant, I participated in a reading competition each year.  Usually I read my favorite series, The Robert Langdon Series by Dan Brown.  But last year I did read one other book, How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg.  So while I'm still reading Hollow City, here's an extra review just for you Cierra, the only person that reads these reviews!

If you scroll down, well, not right now, you'll see that I did another book by Georgia Bragg called How They Choked, a collection of historical facts about how historical figures screwed up in life, which eventually lead them to their deaths.  How They Croaked is basically the same concept, but about the bizarre deaths of famous historical figures.  Some of the people Georgia Bragg talks about are:  Cleopatra, George Washington, Albert Einstein, Henry VIII (in the other book they discuss his 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn), the famous beheading of Marie Antoinette, and even Pocahontas ... The real story, not that Disney crap!  Okay, before the hate mails come flying in, I have nothing against the movie, I love Pocahontas, but let's face it the Disney sequel was more historically accurate than the first movie.  

Just like Hidden Figures, it's really hard to explain a plot where there's more than 1 story.  But what I can say, Ike How They Choked, it's a fascinating book to read.  Now this books is mainly designed for pre teens, yes, I read those kind of books, and yes, I read books for little kids too.  I wil read The Day The Drayons Quit a million times and never get bored with it.  Before I get carried away, let's get back to the book.  This book is reallly made for anyone to read, because it discusses real things that happened to real people in a basic text.  Also, it talks about the way people died that kids would NEVER see today.  

Kids today will never really understand the struggle people lived in those times because mainly we hospitals and the technology to stop the crazy life threatening diseases.  Also, they will never experience the bizzare deaths that wasn't from illness.  Okay, yes, the last guillotine beheading execution was in 1977, about 40 years ago, but let's face it, kids today weren't even alive to remember that ... I was born 13 AFTER that happened.  What I'm trying to day is that, kids kind of have it a little easy with survival.  They don't have to witness an execution 3 blocks from their house, or play with their friends one day and out of nowhere one of the kids drops dead due to the cholera.  Yes, there is a lot of violence today, especially recently due to the 2016 election (not gonna get political at all), but trust me when I say this, it wasn't like back in the day.  And I think it's a good that kids learn about these kind of things, just so they don't make the same mistakes as our ancestors.

So there is another long review for you people.  I'm gonna try to get reviews posted here and there, I ain't a quick reader like I used to be.  But I will post some other random stuff here and there as well, just to let you all know I'm still alive and well.  Make sure to check out my other reviews and I will see you in the next one!

- BorenNerdy