Although little K is sleeping well (considering she’s only a week old), 4 1/2 hours of sleep is considerably less than what I’m used to getting. So, forgive me if this doesn’t make a whole lotta sense. 🙂

I picked up this biography of Anne Hutchinson by Eve LaPlante mostly because I didn’t know anything about Anne Hutchinson, and the book itself was billed as “Anne Hutchinson: America’s founding mother” type of thing. So, I figured, let’s see what LaPlante had to say.

Well, not much. At least not much that was convincing about Hutchinson being American’s founding mother. The biography itself — which was mostly about Hutchinson’s trial and banishment from 17th century Puritan Massachusetts — was interesting. I found the whole idea of these authoritarian men confronting and banishing a woman during that time quite fascinating. Especially since LaPlante quoted extensively from the transcript of the trial.

However, the book kind of fell apart in the end. It’s not just that Hutchinson had an incredibly sudden and violent end to her life. It’s that I’m not sure you can make a case for a 17th Century Puritan woman who just happened to have had some strong opinions being the mother of modern American religious freedoms. The last two or so chapters just didn’t work, in my opinion.