So we’re in the process of moving into a bigger apartment. I’m not allowed to lift anything more than 20 pounds. I have mounds and mounds of books. Our new apartment is an upstairs apartment. All this to say, Shaun is a saint.
Here is the back of our little truck just a couple of days [...]
The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
I don’t know where we got it, probably from a garage sale or a thrift store or something, but when I was growing up we had this giant copy of Grimm’s Fairytales. It didn’t have pictures, but some of the letters were done in this fancy [...]
Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
I really, really want to like this book. I have had a thing for Frank Lloyd Wright since we studied him in a class my junior year of high school. I only know a small amount about his personal life, so I was really intrigued by this book since it came [...]
The Book: Pharmakon…or the Story of a Happy Family, by Dirk Wittenborn
The Story: In 1952, William Friedrich is teaching psychology at Yale. In a bar one night, he overhears another professor talking about a trip she took to South America and a leaf that the tribes would take to calm people down or help after [...]
The Book: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival, by Norman Ollestad
The Story: Yet another survival story. That’s kind of been my “thing” for the last month or so, no idea why. I don’t have any more in my pile, so this may be my last one for awhile, but I’ve probably read 5 [...]
As I’m sure you’ve gathered over the last 8ish months, I’m having a baby here real, real soon. Shaun and I are both more excited about this than anything ever. We even got the crib put together in the baby’s room and everything is getting way real. I do however, have these little fears that [...]
The Book: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, by Robert Alexander
The Story: This is the story of the last weeks of the Romanov family, told through the eyes of Leonka, the kitchen boy. When they were moved to the “House of Special Purpose” during the Revolution, only 5 servants went with them [...]
I have thought about renaming Sundays “Unload that folder of Bookish Comics on readers” day, but it is just too long… I have decided, however, I am only going to unload my big old folder of comics on you on Sunday mornings. So leave on your pjs, grab your bowl of cinnamon toast crunch and [...]
The Book: The House of Tomorrow, by Peter Bognanni
The Story: Sebastian’s parents died when he was very young and since then he’s been living with his grandma in a glass dome outside of town. She has all these semi-crazy beliefs and, while Sebastian is allowed to leave the dome from time to time, he is [...]
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
I’m sure that most bibliophiles have fond memories of this book, whether they read it when they were 10 or 18 or 39 or whenever. It’s one of those classics that is pretty much universally loved, so probably nothing I’m going to say here will blow your mind, but [...]