Tag: I luuuuurv reading books about what it is like to have a particular job

Note: I received an e-galley of this book from the publisher, via Edelweiss, for publicity purposes. Remember before when I said that academics had sometimes made my life difficult in the past? And that it prevented me from enjoying Dear Committtee Members, or even giving it its due? Well, the group of academics who never made my life difficult was archaeologists, and the opposite force was at work while I read Lives in Ruins, the newest book by the author who immersed us in the world of librarians in This Book Is Overdue! and obituarists in The Dead Beat. Archaeology,…