Sometimes I wish I read books a little more slowly, but other times, it doesn't bother me. Last week, I sat down with a new book by Tamera Alexander, A Note Yet Unsung . It is the story of a young woman returning to the south during the Reconstruction Era after the US Civil War. The young woman, Rebekah, has been forced to return home from Austria, where she had been living for several years. It was not by choice that she returns home, but rather because of the death of her grandmother. She is a musician, but at the time women were not allowed to play in orchestras. They were a male-only profession. This fictional story is of her attempt to play and perform. She becomes the assistant to the local Orchestra Conductor and an invaluable aid to his work. Due to her home situation, she was also unable to return to her mother's home where her stepfather lives, but she finds a live-in position as a music instructor. The main plot of th...