After three straight days of trying to listen to local radio, I knew I needed a new audiobook. My favorite authors were already checked out, so I decided to try something new. That’s the wonderful thing about library books; you can try new authors for free. I took home a shiny new copy of Mary [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Books’
22 Feb
What I wasn’t looking for but found: WPA Federal Writers’ Project manuscripts
While searching for something completely unrelated, I found myself digging through the vertical files at the library. I can’t speak for all vertical files everywhere, but I have found three general truths about vertical files: They’re rarely indexed. They are almost never cross referenced. You have to understand the mindset of the person responsible for [...]
4 Jan
Go read this book now!
And Hell Followed With It: life and death in a Kansas Tornado by Bonar Menninger Being both a weather junkie and Kansas history junkie, I scrambled to pull Bonar Menniger’s work off the new book cart at the public library. Beautifully printed, the book includes pages of award-winning photographs that ran in the Topeka Capital-Journal, [...]
