The best book I’ve read this year is Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore.  Highly recommended.

Lepore’s got a new book out: The Secret History of Wonder Woman (yes, the one with the invisible plane) that looks like a good read.  I never read the comic books but I was a young fan of the TV series with Lynda Carter.  I even had a Wonder Woman doll though I spurned Barbies…and most other dolls.  And I used the empty plastic reels that ribbons came on as bracelets “just like” hers.