Happy Labor Day weekend! For some of you, that may mean putting together a giant puzzle. Or maybe just reading about puzzles. A. J. Jacobs has published another charming book this year, The Puzzler, detailing his adventures in the many-faceted world of puzzles. Even though I don’t like puzzles or crosswords or sudoku, I will read anything Jacobs writes. He’s got a quirky mind and he’s a good writer. Some of his other several self-improvement books include The Year of Living Biblically and The Know-it-all: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. In these, he chronicles his efforts at following the Old Testament rules for Jews and reading the Encyclopedia Britannica in a year. I also enjoyed Thanks a Thousand, in which he traces all the people it took to get his morning cup of coffee.
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What I’m ReadingI began working in libraries as a seventh grader, courtesy of scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon wrote me a pass to miss gym class, so I began working in the school library to feed my love of reading. Even after my surgery to correct the curvature, I kept getting out of gym to work in my high school library and then in my college library (for pay, at last!).
So began my eventual career as a college reference librarian—after a detour into teaching high school English. Later I worked for an educational publisher before going back to libraries.
I have a reading and writing life now. I devour both fiction and nonfiction, and will tell you about some of my favorite reads, both old friends and new discoveries.
Here's some library-themed music to get you in the mood.
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