Look at the beautiful logo for our blog, made by Elaine. To me it illustrates the stream of images, impressions and ideas that we encounter as we are reading. You can put your boat in anywhere and travel as far as you'd like.
Anne Treeger-Huck tells me that she can't put down Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann. The novel opens with an account of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightwire walk between the unfinished towers of the World Trade Center. There is a fantastic children's picture book about Petit called The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, by Mordicai Gerstein (it won the Caldecott Award for illustration).
Keith is reading Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869, by Stephen Ambrose. Keith says, "It's amazing how they set off to do this thing without much of a real plan--making it up as they went along."
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