Monday, May 23, 2011

Library Monday, 5/23/2011

No books from the library today. Not even the copy of Jane Eyre my wife specifically requested. (I offered to find her an electronic copy for the laptop. She demurred.) But, on Saturday we all trouped off to Ithaca, where my wife watched the newest film version of Jane Eyre (which sounds delightful in its costuming, and dreadful in its subject matter. Ugh, the Brontes.), which, naturally, prompted her desire for the book. Which we don't own. Anyway, the Ithaca library was having its big book sale (it was the last weekend of it, in fact) so I grabbed a copy of:

John Munschauer - World War II Cavalcade


This is an autobiographical presentation of Munschauer's experiences in the Pacific theater during WWII. I grabbed it for research, but it looks readable.

We also got a whole stack of old Peanuts books (the old ones, where Charlie Brown is hapless, and the Peanuts gang actually does things that kids do, like play aliens and earth folk. You can see how the earlier Peanuts influenced Calvin and Hobbes, especially in the winter sketches.) and some cookbooks. So, not bad, I think.

Next week, the library is closed on Monday, so Library Day will be Tuesday. I will be picking up trashy books, because the week after I'm headed to Kansas City, MO to do research - so you can expect some sort of a post on that, if I have internet access. Fingers crossed!
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Beth · 723 weeks ago

Ugh the Brontes? For shame! Jane Eyre is a fantastic book with depth and honesty and pure awesome. Coincidentally, it's one of my absolutely favs. :)

I wonder if the movie was true to the book at all. Hrm....

Why the research to Kansas City? Travel safe, and I look forward to hearing all the news! :)
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MTimonin 40p · 723 weeks ago

Everything by a Bronte that I ever read was gloomy and depressing, full of gloomy and depressing people engaged in gloom and depression. They generally featured a moor at its most gloomy and depressing. Additionally, they were long and unnecessarily descriptive. Of course, it's been years since I even tried to read anything by a Bronte. I did survive my foray into Dickens at Christmas time. Perhaps I should - maybe I should start with Austen. (I love Austen's stories and characters, but hate her writing.)
Lora says the film was fairly true to the book.

Kansas City - Independence, actually - is where Pres. Truman's papers are. I'm looking at his correspondence circa 1945 for the dissertation.

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