Nine years elapsed between the publication of The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fourth novel, Tender Is the Night, which went through 3 plots and 17 separate drafts before publication. When Fitzgerald was nearly finished writing Tender Is the Night, he wrote to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons, that he would … Read more
For a great laugh, hop over to Reading Mama’s blog, where she reveals the dark secret of the library force field that hinders our best efforts to return all of our library books on time: http://homeschoolblogger.com/readingmama/78724/ Mary Jo Tate
One of the best business books I read last year was Good to Great by Jim Collins. It’s based on an impressive five-year study of companies that made the leap from good to great . . . and comparable companies that failed to make the leap. Even though its focus is on corporations, most of … Read more