Winter Reading
One of the pluses to winter in Minnesota is that it allows me more time to read. There are a lot fewer distractions! So far this winter, I've been fortunate to follow my standard process of alternating between non-fiction and fiction works. I'm further fortunate that I learn something from all of them. I guess that's a tribute to the authors and one of the points of reading. Sometimes it's about writing. Sometimes it's about a time or place. Sometimes it's insight into people. There's always something! Book One- Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn- Non-Fiction. I'd heard the story of a shipping container full of rubber duckies that fell into the sea. It broke open, and the duckies floated around the world. This is their story. First, it was packages of duckies, frogs, turtles, and beavers. Somehow, only the duckies get any respect. But after that, they started to spread based on currents and storms, and other weather events. Some smart folks started tracking th...
