The Plan.
So, the plan is (like I don't have anything else to do with my copious free time) to blog all the reading matter that comes into my house, and then figure out how much I get through in a year. Fun, right?
Anyway, today is the first dayof the rest of your life of the plan. Of course, tomorrow I leave for a trip that will take me through Sunday, and then I leave again next Tuesday for another week, so updates will be ... intermittent. But. Still.
Today's mail brought:
Books
The Uxbridge English Dictionary (gift from friend)
How To Put on an Amateur Circus (1923 antiquarian book, purchased because -- well, obviously purchased because it's ABOUT HOW TO PUT ON AN AMATEUR CIRCUS! Excellent purchase, includes beaucoup photos, diagrams, and line drawings, plus instructions for doing blackface so that you can be a convincing native "elephant" handler.)
Minute Epics of Flight (to replace a copy we gave as a gift to our friend Chris W. Lately we've been finding that we want to share crazy old books that we've found, so we are just using bookfinder.com and buying dupes. No more waiting for lightning to strike twice in a used bookstore!)
Journals
Language: Journal of the Linguistics Society of America
I also opened the journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names today, but it came last week so I don't think it counts.
Magazines
Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb. (Will read on plane tomorrow, most likely.)
Newsweek, 1/9/2006.
Threads, The Magazine For People Who Love to Sew, Feb/March issue.
New Scientist, Dec 10-16 2005. (Goddamn it, I am already two weeks behind the NEW SCIENCE!)
The New Yorker, 1/9/2006.
So, there you have it. I might come back and strikethrough stuff I've read; I might not. You'll just have to live with the uncertainty.
Anyway, today is the first day
Today's mail brought:
Books
The Uxbridge English Dictionary (gift from friend)
How To Put on an Amateur Circus (1923 antiquarian book, purchased because -- well, obviously purchased because it's ABOUT HOW TO PUT ON AN AMATEUR CIRCUS! Excellent purchase, includes beaucoup photos, diagrams, and line drawings, plus instructions for doing blackface so that you can be a convincing native "elephant" handler.)
Minute Epics of Flight (to replace a copy we gave as a gift to our friend Chris W. Lately we've been finding that we want to share crazy old books that we've found, so we are just using bookfinder.com and buying dupes. No more waiting for lightning to strike twice in a used bookstore!)
Journals
Language: Journal of the Linguistics Society of America
I also opened the journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names today, but it came last week so I don't think it counts.
Magazines
Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb. (Will read on plane tomorrow, most likely.)
Newsweek, 1/9/2006.
Threads, The Magazine For People Who Love to Sew, Feb/March issue.
New Scientist, Dec 10-16 2005. (Goddamn it, I am already two weeks behind the NEW SCIENCE!)
The New Yorker, 1/9/2006.
So, there you have it. I might come back and strikethrough stuff I've read; I might not. You'll just have to live with the uncertainty.
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