Reading Rambo

I’ve never cared about Hawaii. Like…ever. They were the 50 th state brought into the Union, that’s all I knew. And a Brady Bunch movie had been set there. And its people liked to surf. Oh! and Dog the Bounty Hunter lives there, which is awesome. I was vaguely aware that we’d overthrown their queen, Liliuokalani, but I never really thought about it, or about what the people of Hawaii felt about that. I was a bit uncertain as to how I felt about this book until the end. I’m generally a big fan of tangents, but Sarah Vowell seems to go off on so many that I was struggling with the chronology of events (I’m big on chronology). Somehow, though, in the last few pages, she pulls it together and I felt like it had been a truly worthwhile reading experience. That’s the brief summary. Now for some specific thoughts. The nice thing about really liking a certain author and being willing to read whatever she writes is that you can be exposed to things you wouldn’t have se...