Book of the Week

Well, the ALA conference in New Orleans is over, and I and my 67 pounds of books (not including the ones I mailed back to myself) have finally made it home. Due to really bad weather all along the east coast yesterday, our flight from Chcago to Philadelphia was delayed from 4:20 to 6:30 and then we sat on the runway for an hour and a half. Good thing I had a bag full of nifty advanced reading copies of upcoming books!

My new favourite upcoming book is by Ken Jennings, he of the record-breaking Jeopardy run a couple of years back. This is part memoir, part trivia history, all very entertaining. Jennings has a natural way with words and can occasionally be quite hilarious. I kept giggling to myself while reading it, earning strange looks from Jen and Liz.



This is the second year in a row that I've lucked out on a great book for the plane ride home (last year was Julie and Julia). It has already been passed along to Jen, who is enjoying it as much as I did.

And once I unpack, organize who is getting what books, and catch up on sleep, I'll let you know the highs and lows of New Orleans 2006.