3rd Post

This week I finished the book called, Norwegian-American Studies Vol. 19. It truly disappointed me. I was hoping for intriguing information about deep things and group history of Norwegian-Americans. Unfortunately I was in for something else.
After I read the general article about the immigration of Norwegians I began an article on a man named Rasmus B. Anderson. This article seemed promising at first but soon it told of his harsh personality and his whole history. This article revealed nothing intriguing about him and it was also really boring. It went on to tell all the things that he did which no weight in what happens today. To me, this great Norwegian immigrant seemed like a cranky and selfish man who never was happy with the way things were. The next articles I read with an easy manner. I focused little on what they were about. Often times they were about specific family in some small town. It might be interesting to some but I found it to be bland and have no effect on what is going on today. It was especially boring because the articles didn’t try to keep you interested. There were just too many articles about how an area was settled and what the neighbors thought of each other. I sifted a few good facts from the article, one of them being that immigrants often found and connected with immigrants from their own valley rather than just fellow countrymen. But I picked up another volume with what seems to be more interesting subject matter so we will see about how I like that next week.