April 23, 2007
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Random Thoughts
First things first:
The winner of the book giveaway is ……. Janie! She guessed $54 and I spent $53.63. Is it the Cullum you’d like, my friend? I’m headed to the post office this afternoon. I’m delighted to have found something for which you’ve long been looking. [Addendum: How fun! The book she was excited about was Shake Hands with Shakespeare by Albert Cullum. Today is Shakespeare's birthday and deathday. Have you ever thought about dying on your birthday? Yeah, I'm weird.]
When the price was 50¢/inch I usually spent $35 at the sale. So it makes sense to me ($35 * 1.5 = $52.50) that when the price rose to 75¢/inch I spent $53. Happily, my husband just bought new arrows for his bow so we are both indulged. For incredible bargains, check out what Carrie got at her library sale for a total of $1.75!! Woo hoo indeed!
☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼Here’s a sample quote from the book Conversation by Theodore Zeldin. I’m not impressed with the book, but I liked this quote (emphasis mine):
Shopping for food is a game of hide-and-seek, with packagers concealing their secrets in small print. The time will come, I hope, when those who influence our ideas on food, the writers of newspaper articles about restaurants, and the makers of TV cooking shows, will begin to discuss the quality of the conversation which their delicious meals induce, and not concentrate only on the decor of restaurants, or the technicalities of recipes.☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼If you like choral music, I’d recommend Morten Lauridsen’s setting of O Magnum Mysterium. The Lauridsen is number 5 on this CD. The first sentence would be a good lesson for a young Latin student (with help given on the hard words). The music is perfectly paired to the text. We heard this at a concert last night and the tears just rolled down my cheeks. It was so beautiful that it hurt.O magnum mysterium,
et admirabile sacramentum,
ut animalia viderent Dominum
natum jacentem in praesepio.O great wonder, miraculous sacrament:
the beasts of the field have seen the Lord,
new-born and lying in a manger.
Comments (3)
Oh, darn! I forgot to submit my guess. Silly me! I was measuring the length of the book, rather than the width….so my figure would have been waaaay off. Guess you can tell I havent been to too many library sales.
I did receive a book for my birthday….a new bio about Lady Jane.
Dana in GA
PS I read about 1/3 of The Virgin of Bennington. I’m not sure whether it’s worth finishing or not. Ms. Norris has an interesting background….but when I reflect on the sixties, it is not so odd.
Oh, goodie, goodie, goodie! My seasoned bookbuying helped the estimate.
I’ve really been looking for that Cullum book for probably six or seven years. The cost of a used copy was way more than I was going to pay. And now all that bookbuying paid off! Thanks so much, Carol!
And I’ve put that CD on my wannabuy list. Sounds like something just up my alley!
Janie
Lauridson’s O Magnum Mysterium is lovely! I don’t know how many times I have listened to it over and over again. Now that you have mentioned it I am going to have to search out my recording of it so that I can have another listen. You are right, it is so beautiful that it hurts.