The Book
The Book: A Cover-to-cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time, by Keith Houston Well, I did manage ten books of summer, but I failed to write about the last one. And I've been very slow with my reading in the last month or so. As far as I can tell, I've been under enough stress that I don't have a lot of brainpower left over for reading; there are lots of big, heavy tomes on important topics that I want to read, but I mostly take refuge in stitching and fluffy reading. Of course, I also spend too much time doomscrolling! I'm trying to spend more energy and time in the real world, but we all know how difficult that can be. ANYWAY.... I purchased this fun history of books for the library at work several years ago, but didn't plan to read it. Then Robin Sloan, author of Moonbound , said he'd had a lot of fun with it, and I thought I'd give it a whirl. It is a fun read! Of course I know quite a bit about the history of...