Newberry Library Book Fair (Part 1)
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mojosmomTonight was Associates' Preview Night at the Book Fair. Quel haul! I shall be registering madly. Much of what I bought will be kept, but there are others that will likely be released once I've read them. I found two copies of a little book called The Night Before Christmas in Chicago that I'll save for holiday releases in appropriate spots in the city. A couple of Wodehouses and two Robertson Davies books that I didn't have, a pop-up of Forest Animals, a Truman Capote, a Calvin Trillin, a Katha Pollitt and more. But the pièce de résistance was the paperback edition of Leon Edel's biography of Henry James. Covers were torn, so all five volumes, boxed, were $1.00.
I got a couple of non-book items as well. Amongst the CDs, I found an Isaac Stern/Jean-Pierre Rampal recording of the Vivaldi Double Concertos. The bookstore was having a sale, too, and I got a very cool retro fountain pen for $1.00. Remember those little games we had as kids, a box with an illustration inside, and balls that you had to get into little holes in the illustration? Well, I found an excellent large one, a bit larger than 5" x 7",with Victorian pictures of a variety of household objects and you have to match the color of the ball to that of the object, so there's an added level of difficulty. Couldn't pass it up.
I'll go back Sunday for the final day's bargains, and perhaps take in a Bughouse Square debate or soapbox session.
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Lots of buzz about Barack today (no surprise!). I read a lot of the postings to the blog at his campaign website, and was thrilled, amazed and delighted by the number of people who said, "I didn't know about him before, but I think I just watched the first African-American president". Of course, my favorite post was the one that read, "I've always been a Republican, and I was going to vote for Bush, but Obama changed my mind." May you be one of many.
I got a couple of non-book items as well. Amongst the CDs, I found an Isaac Stern/Jean-Pierre Rampal recording of the Vivaldi Double Concertos. The bookstore was having a sale, too, and I got a very cool retro fountain pen for $1.00. Remember those little games we had as kids, a box with an illustration inside, and balls that you had to get into little holes in the illustration? Well, I found an excellent large one, a bit larger than 5" x 7",with Victorian pictures of a variety of household objects and you have to match the color of the ball to that of the object, so there's an added level of difficulty. Couldn't pass it up.
I'll go back Sunday for the final day's bargains, and perhaps take in a Bughouse Square debate or soapbox session.
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Lots of buzz about Barack today (no surprise!). I read a lot of the postings to the blog at his campaign website, and was thrilled, amazed and delighted by the number of people who said, "I didn't know about him before, but I think I just watched the first African-American president". Of course, my favorite post was the one that read, "I've always been a Republican, and I was going to vote for Bush, but Obama changed my mind." May you be one of many.
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Date: 2004-07-29 02:32 am (UTC)That's exactly what I thought--I'd never heard anything about him before. I was watching coverage on PBS, and one of the commentators said something like "forget uniters and dividers, what we have here is a transcender." He gave a remarkable speech and it will definitely be interesting to see what he does in the Senate.