Ah, back to mysteries. I'm trying to pace myself here, I promise you. I just own a lot of mysteries, so they're going to keep showing up in my posts. Have you ever read any Edmund Crispin? He was a British writer, who wrote during the golden age. His detective, Gervase Fen, is an Oxford …
Continue reading 365 Books: Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin
I think I was drawn to this book initially by the cover: a photo of someone holding a pile of books that towers so high above them that it threatens to crush them. That's my kind of cover illustration! A.J. Jacobs books always kind of start the same way: he gets a crazy idea. In …
I bought this book while I was in college and it inspired a paper that I wrote for a history class on the politics of textbooks and the representation of Native Americans in elementary school textbooks.* It was a sweeping paper, covering textbooks from colonial America through the present, and I spent many hours in …
Continue reading 365 Books: America Revised by Francis FitzGerald
What, you are thinking, is a Limberlost? It sounds like Stranger Things' Upsidedown - but it's not. It's a wetlands forest in Eastern Indiana. It used to stretch for 13,000 acres but enterprising Americans drained parts of it in the late 19th Century. As many wetland forests do, it had a bit of a reputation …
Continue reading 365 Books: A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
To be honest, I thought I had a copy of this around here somewhere but my archivist checked the app on his phone and informs me that, unless I snuck a copy in without asking him to scan it into the app yet again, that book does not reside in my collection. This delightful book …
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