ABC a (sucky) novel

Last week when I went to the library, I happened to pick up this book from the new release shelf. I have a passing interest in the alphabet and cover the history of numbers and letters with my students. The idea that a man driven by grief would become obssesed with discovering why the letters of the alphabet are in that particular order seemed promising. But the book just sucked. I didn't even finish it.

Unfortunately, while hub did and excellend job of packing for my adventure, this was the book that was included in my bag. So I tried to plod through it. I even placed scraps of paper to mark two pages that I thought held interesting ideas about collections and being different that I thought I'd want to remember. But today when I went back to reread and post the quotes here...I couldn't find them. That's pretty bad.

Skip it.