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Books Are Like Ships
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.” - Roald Dahl
Currently reading
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Winter's Tale
Cleopatra: A Life
Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent---and How to Reclaim Our Skies
Peril at End House: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat
Progress:
71/279 pages
Cloud Atlas
Who Invented Peanut Butter?
In the middle of reading this book. Fascinating (no, it really is fascinating) look behind the scenes of how peanut butter came to be such an iconic staple of American cuisine.
What I've learned so far is that George Washington Carver, the African-American scientist who is attributed with inventing peanut butter, DID NOT invent peanut butter and all of the things I was taught about him in school were false. Very surprising indeed.
The downside, of course, of reading this book is that I'm now constantly craving PB&J sandwiches.
 - Jon Krampner)