I’m pretty much willing to do anything to build up my kid’s library. Without overstating it, I think reading is magic. It has been a constant in my life, from my leisure activity to a huge component of what I do for a living. I read for fun, I read for work, and I readContinue reading “Baby Bingo”
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Read: Clarence Saunders and the Founding of Piggly Wiggly by Mike Freeman
Clarence Saunders and the Piggly Wiggly have ended up being oddly important to my professional career. I work at the museum housed in Saunders’ never-lived-in mansion that was funded by his creation of the self-service grocery chain. I wrote a graduate seminar paper on the city’s transformation of the mansion into a museum. Currently, IContinue reading “Read: Clarence Saunders and the Founding of Piggly Wiggly by Mike Freeman”
Read: Atonement by Ian McEwan
Atonement absolutely blew me away. I have never read any of McEwan’s work before this novel, but I certainly plan on working my way through his repertoire. I especially admired the way that he wove three perspectives together and then shifted my entire perception of the story in the last few pages.
This week I’m reading:
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester One of the things I’ve been reading this week is The Professor and the Madman about two of the many makers behind the massive Oxford English Dictionary that took seventy years to compile. One of myContinue reading “This week I’m reading:”
Caroline Mitchell Carrico 