eunrose 's review for:

Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell

4.0

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I've been rating a lot of 4's lately. Consistency like that makes me nervous, but I do think that's what they've all deserved. They've been very good books, but not great ones that make me really sit up and think about them after they're done. Unfamiliar Fishes is a good history of the US annexation of Hawaii and the history behind why it happened when and how it did, but it's not a great Sarah Vowell book. The kind of commentary I expect from her was a bit lacking, especially in the middle third of the book, which was much drier and played much more straight than the opening and ending. Again, very good, but short of great.