pickYou‘ve used a pencil all your life. You think you know all about pencils. WRONG! Petroski‘s book tells all about pencils, their history, their development, their manufacture, their uses. Possibly more than you ever wanted to know. However, in Petroski‘s hand, the history of the pencil becomes a metaphor for the history of engineering and how the artifacts of life evolve from crude ideas to useful tools that we seldom give a second thought to.
I found a pen shop in my new town and holy wow, such wonders. Just in time for Inktober.
I got an E+M mechanical pencil with thick lead and a new dip pen with excellent range of motion.
Not strictly book related but I know you all love some writing/drawing tools as much as I do.
#pens #pencils #drawing #writing
I was searching my shelf for a #sharp book, and this seemed perfect! A long time member of my #tbr list. #anditsaugust @RealLifeReading
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance | 
