Sereste & Ruth by Wild and Trish Mbanga

Date Started: July 11, 2015
Date Finished: July 12, 2015
Book Acquisition: Purchased after reading Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
Overall Rating: 3/5

This book is not a sophisticated history of the famous couple. It was clearly well researched, but it also was ineptly written. Literature snottiness aside, I really enjoyed this book. Sereste and Ruth were a remarkable couple and reading about the formation of modern Botswana was surprisingly interesting. I don't tend to gravitate to African history, honestly. I think in school I actually subbed out my African History requirement for one of the Middle Eastern classes.

A couple years ago I did read a book called Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness that was the author's account of growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia at about the same time that Botswana came into existence. I would totally go back and reread that right now because I'd be interested to see what it says about Botswana but some asshole kept the book in a bad breakup (fuck you, Montana).

Anyways, I don't have a lot to say about this book. It was good, I liked it.

Side note: I've done a poor job of updating this blog (and even reading) recently. The last book I finished, before this one, was read on the plane back from visiting Chris and Rachael. Then like eleven seconds later they were out here for a visit so I've been pretty busy. And I got that boyfriend thing happening which occupies the Sundays I used to spend reading. He did just lend me a Chuck Klosterman book, though, and I am super looking forward to it. Maybe that will be next? I did just purchase The Far Pavilions but I had completely forgotten that the damn thing is literally a thousand pages long and the print is super fucking small.