Long hours in the car driving from Minnesota to the northern tip of Newfoundland means lots of time for reading. Here’s a list of the books that made the cut for this trip for each of the road-trippers (my sister, brother-in-law, mom, and me), with excerpted blurbs from Amazon. Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True…
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2018 Books: Top Ten
Thanks to being part of a book club and the discovery of audiobooks, I did a lot of reading (and listening) in 2018. Here are ten of my favorites: The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia, by Michael Booth This is an interesting look at the cultures and societies of…
2017 Reading: American Stories
In looking over the books I read in 2017, it’s apparent that I somehow got on a kick of reading books that told stories about the history of the United States. Maybe it had something to do with the four 1000+ mile road trips across the country that I took. At any rate, if you…