Friday, October 30, 2020
One Way Arrows in the Woods?
I finally got around to carrying my library sale items from the car into the house. Since I helped set-up, I had the chance to pick out books and pay for them ahead of the sale. That had been over a week ago and I forgot what I'd chosen. First was a jigsaw puzzle. I'm half-way to my goal of having at least 10 puzzles. When the fever hits me right after Christmas, I want to be prepared to do one a week until sometime into March. Then were two non-fiction books - Differential Equations and Physical Science with Modern Applications (5th edition). Both books have problems to solve and that might be a fun change of pace from doing crossword puzzles for awhile. A small book on The Finest Legends of the Rhine looked interesting. I'm not as familiar w/ Germanic mythology as I should be. Another non-fiction book called Naming Nature is about the historical tension between evolutionary theory and classification. I've read similar books but not w/ this emphasis on how the taxonomy developed. I also picked up two mysteries by Jill Churchill. Have never read her books but these two had nice shiny covers w/ Art Deco style illustrations on the front. Decided to judge these books by their covers and give them a try. The last book is the Works of Chaucer. I might have a copy of the Canterbury Tales somewhere but picked up this book in case I was mistaken. Should have looked at it more closely. It's written in the original Old English which I can barely read. However, it was printed in 1933 and it may go into my stash of old books. For the price of two bucks, I did really well.
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