Time to get serious

All right, it's halfway through January and I've already been padding my count a little bit. (For the record, I did read Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy and it was surprisingly good. Dated, definitely, and a bit like a horoscope in that there were so many descriptions that obviously one of them had to apply to my situation, but refreshingly non-prescriptive.)

It's time to start the book that was the reason Dave and I organized this club in the first place: Braudel's The Structures of Everyday Life. I'll have to give periodic reports on this, since it's not quite a read-it-in-an-hour book. (And, because I can't read macrohistory all the time, I've also started a collection of Roger Angell's essays. What? Pitchers and catchers report in six weeks!)

Last night's read alouds: Eddie's Kingdom, Max and Ruby, The Camel's Lament, Curious George, and Clara and Asha