I’m reading a door-stopper of a book that’s taking me two weeks.

But don’t worry, I still have reading ideas for you. Here’s a post about developing a canon of Mormon literature. It’s intended for scholars and critics — “Mormon literary critics need something to criticize” — but includes a list of ten Mormon-themed books.

Ten for one! Just like a big sale week at your supermarket!

The covers make me feel like I’m searching the cramped shelves of a great used-book store, and the authors are, to paraphrase the blogger, some of the most famous people you never heard of.

But every book piques my interest. Half are written by Mormons, half by non, but all treat the Mormon experience sympathetically, which marked a turning point for the era in which they were written.

All but one are available on Amazon.

==================================

I visited Utah a couple weeks ago. Seeking an only-in-Utah, sunbonnet-culture food experience, I skipped the ever-popular Cafe Rio and hunted down Sconecutters, which looks to be a longtime local chain. It isn’t fancy. The building might have been an old taco chain.

In this sandwich shop, your turkey, cheese, lettuce and tomato are piled onto scones. These are not your wedge-shaped, tea-and-crumpet scones, mind you, but more the Navajo fry-bread kind. (They also offered fry-bread tacos.) Anyway, it was a tasty lunch, the bread puffy and yeasty, very much like a donut somebody forgot to frost.

Served with fries. And fry sauce, of course.

I forgot to take a picture, darn it.

We’ll have to make do today with another bonnet-people food: Amish Breakfast Casserole.

20160731_180502_resized (2)

I served it with toast made from Brioche, a loaf of which I nabbed on a recent visit to Jungle Jim’s in Cincinnati. It cost . . . Well, it was obscene how much it cost, but at Jungle Jim’s, I behave the same way I behave at the library. Look at all these shelves, filled with good stuff. I can take home whatever I want!