A Weekend of March Madness and Editing

My wife and kids are on spring break, having left for Florida a few days ago. At home by myself, I have been meticulously going through the copyedited files for Early Evangelicalism: A Reader that I received from OUP (67 files to go through by early April!) and watching some of the incredible March Madness games.

I was disappointed that Iowa State didn't beat Ohio State (Michigan's main rival), and saddened by the Butler loss (I use to live near Indianapolis). But I am thrilled that Michigan (my home state), Michigan State, Indiana and especially FGCU advanced. My wife attended FGCU for graduate school, and my parents and in-laws continue to live in the Fort Myers area. It will be exciting to see if FGCU can beat Florida next weekend.

The Books Keep Piling Up!

My reading list continues to grow. I just received Timothy Larsen's A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians (Oxford, 2011)--props to Andy Tooley for being mentioned in the intro for his "expert knowledge in the field of nineteenth-century British studies"--and David Hall's A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Reforming Transformation of Public Life in New England (Knopf, 2011) in the mail. I ordered both books at a discount during the 2012 AHA meeting last month in Chicago. So many books... so little time!