Linda Laird

It is worth noting, as it is with many of my recent reviews, that this book came to me courtesy of Goodreads First Reads program. As such it was free to me but none the less (and as any viewer of my other reviews will believe) I will endeavor to give a completely honest review of the item in question.

To describe it succinctly, Laird's work is as close as any writer will ever come to a truly scholarly treatise on the humble grain elevator. She describes with much affection these sentinels of the prairie from their form to their function. Her presentation betrays not only great skill but obvious affection.

It must be admitted that this is a work of very specific and niche interest. I find it unlikely that Laird's work will find its way to the New York Times Best Sellers list but that should not diminish the warm affection that pervades this book. It is one of those simple and amusing books that makes one say simply, "I had no idea there was even that much to know about that topic." I'll be finding a farmer to pass this along to for Christmas. It is an apt tribute to our agricultural past.… (mehr)