Good morning! This week is my mother’s birthday. Of my many memories of my mother, the greatest revolve around reading. The stories she read to us, her insistence we read, her buying sets of children’s and later young adults’ books that she insisted we read, the evenings in the family room, all of us reading, her membership in the Book of the Month Club, and the anthology Guy deMaupassant stories she won in the 30s for being the “best reader.” So today, in her memory, I thought I’d ruminate about reading…
#112 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Monday August 9)
#112 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Monday August…
#112 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Monday August 9)
Good morning! This week is my mother’s birthday. Of my many memories of my mother, the greatest revolve around reading. The stories she read to us, her insistence we read, her buying sets of children’s and later young adults’ books that she insisted we read, the evenings in the family room, all of us reading, her membership in the Book of the Month Club, and the anthology Guy deMaupassant stories she won in the 30s for being the “best reader.” So today, in her memory, I thought I’d ruminate about reading…