Decades ago I sat at a bar next to a older man who – with great pride – pulled a stack of library cards out of his wallet.
“I’ve moved a lot in my life, and the first thing I did in any new town was get a library card,” he said.
Writing this post triggered this memory I hadn’t thought of in years but it speaks towards the variety of people who use libraries. This man was a character although an intelligent one. And at that point in my life (early 20s) I wasn’t necessarily using my library although I had grown up visiting the library. These days, however, I am there at least once a week if not more. So when I heard great things about a book that is about libraries I had to check it out! And add it to my winter reading list.
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so when my cousin reminded me that this author, Paula McClain, had a new book out about Ernest Hemingway’s third wife Martha Gellhorn, I was on it, immediately. This new books is:
certainly kept my attention for a few days.
by Therese Anne Fowler
as much as any book this year!!
that won the Pulitzer more than a decade ago. Thank you to my sister-in-law for handing this book to me a couple of weeks ago.