Packing

Underwear is boring: let's talk about what I'm bringing to read.

The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl
Longfellow! Holmes! Lowell! A murder mystery! Welcome to my dorky side.

His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik
Napoleonic-era British Navy... PLUS DRAGONS. Automatically awesome.

The Gangs of Chicago, Herbert Asbury
"An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld." I will do research, I will do research, I will do research.

I am also bringing:
a journal
many pens
my enormous backlog of alumni magazines

It's a literary kind of vacation.