Maggie Smith can do no wrong! Cannot wait to dive in to this one that just came in the mail.

Just added to my currently reading list. #MrRogers #BobRoss

Big week at the comic book store. #Superman #AmazingSpiderMan

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. Then you had to learn how to miss, and then you‘d never stop missing it.” ~Marilynne Robinson, Lila

Currently Reading.

Let‘s do this!!

I love a good library book sale!!!

Knocking out three different tasks on reading challenges with this one. Superbly written. Obviously, I love Coates‘ prose. More than that though, I love his honesty about the things he has written in the past and the fact that he does not have it all figured out.

I cannot stop reading this book. Katy Tur does a great job of giving us an inside look at this insane election. She also does a great job of showing the importance of journalism in a free society.

Reading David McCullough. Listening to John Coltrane on vinyl. Drinking hot chocolate from my Mark Twain mug. All part of my best life now.

Book mail makes me happy!! About to dive into this one.

About to start my next #LitsyReadingChallenge book. #LRC15 #translated

Reading Mr. Penumbra's for the Read Harder Challenge task #3 (A book about books). Halfway through and it is AMAZING!!! Love it! #readharder2017

"Lafayette's concerns about finally taking his first crack at combat basically boiled down to Danger! Yippee!"

#LitsyReadingChallenge #LRC25 #freespace

Loved, loved, loved this book. Shapiro did a great job of weaving together the real and the imagined to create a compelling narrative. Beautiful work. #LitsyReadingChallenge #LRC10 #MultiplePOVs

Listening to Aaron Copland while reading Sarah Vowell's Lafayette in the Somewhat United States just feels right. Her writing is fantastic (smart and funny) and Copland is a legend. #LRC25 #LitsyReadingChallenge

Apparently, I accidentally ordered seven books off Amazon while listening to the @bookriot holiday recommendation shows. Oops!!

I am caught between wanting to read the whole book in a sitting and wanting the book to last forever. Love the two different time periods. Love the mixture of real historical figures with the fictional figures. I am hooked.

Going out of business sales are the best...and a little sad.

I love when great literature inspires great music. This great album from Lucero's lead singer Ben Nichols is inspired by McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Both are phenomenal.

71 years ago today the US became the first and only country to use nuclear weapons against another country. John Hersey's account originally appeared as an issue of the New Yorker. It's now a book I use to teach World War II to my sophomores each year.

My last Friday before going back to work. Going to be a good one.

Ida B. Wells is underrated and overlooked by many in the study of American History. She is one of my favorites and I'm looking forward to getting this biography started. She's the best!!!

Oprah is my new favorite person. I've been waiting for this one for some time now.

The Oh Hellos put out this album inspired by the Screwtape Letters. It is told from the perspective of the human being tempted by Wormwood. Great tribute to Mr. Clive Staples Lewis. Brilliant concept. Perfect execution. Beautiful album.

Book mail is the best mail!!!

Saga, Volume 6 was every bit as wonderful as volumes 1-5. This series is absolutely one of my favorite things to read. Great characters. Great story. Great visuals. It does everything I want a comic to do and then some. It's a home run every time.

This is how my day is beginning so it can really only go downhill from here.

Exactly what I teach my students in US history. "A complicated guy."

Reading on the back porch of my hotel in Eureka Springs. I could definitely get used to this.

Fun Photo Friday!!! Howard Zinn's masterpiece is the book I go back to again and again and again. It balances the normal US history narrative with what the overlooked and exploited peoples experienced.

Stopped in Oxford, MS so of course I had to stop at Square Books. I could have stayed forever and spent all the monies!!!

Visited Eudora Welty's home today. If you get the chance, it is worth it.

Going on a 3 week road trip. The fact that I'm only taking 5 (plus ebooks) shocks even me.

These two came in the mail today. Can't wait to dive in!!

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Sara Teasdale, "There Will Come Soft Rains"

Aw Yeah!!! Just came in.

"The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death." ~Jack Kerouac, On the Road

A one volume history of Ancient Rome is a difficult task. So far Mary Beard's work is tremendous.

Picked this one up because of Book Riot. Not sure I am emotionally ready to read it though.

Finished Home a couple of weeks ago and I can't stop thinking about. Marilynne Robinson tends to do that though.