General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783 Book

Yikes, so I didn't finish this. Barely read any of it beyond the preface, or perhaps it was an author's note. Either way, I enjoyed that. Then I started the book, which is skinny, and almost immediately began to struggle. This was right after I'd finished rating Founding Brothers, a book of essays about the same period of time in American history. I'd listened to that book after listening to Chernow's bio of Hamilton. I read others' reviews of Founding Brothers and was interested in the discrepancies. People either loved it for the subject matter or hated it for the writing, which they found unnecessarily complex or something similar I'm not remembering, and which I hadn't noticed listening to the book. So I came back to this book and re-read everything I'd read the night before, only this time I read it out loud. And it did improve my comprehension. I debated reading the entire book out loud to myself, but decided first to pick up Chernow's bio of Washington. At 800 plus pages, I was interested but also a bit anxious about reading it. Yet the first few pages and then the first chapter simply slipped by easily. It was readable. And I discovered an easy to read 800 page book is infinitely preferable (to me) than a difficult to read short book. So this one went back to the library. I will finish Chernow's Washington one of these days!