Printers Row Book Fair

[wendyzski]

Tally of Loot:

• The Gangs of Chicago (Herbert Asbury) - to go with The Gangs of New York en route to me from a paperbackswap.


• Rum - a social and sociable history (Ian Williams) - just because


• Children Of Dune (Frank Herbert) - because I didn't have it and I did have twenty-five cents


• 1215 - the year of the Magna Carta (Danzinger/Dillingham) - because it was $3


• The Art of Courtly Love (Capellanus) - a translation of the 12th century original


• The Man in the Ice (Konrad Spindler) - about the Ice Man found in the alps a while back


• a bag of handouts about London - because it came with a free bottle of water


• Ghiardelli samples (caramel and peanut butter) - I went back 5 times


• A Comcast tote bag - because it was free


• One fairly nice-looking Chicago Tribune notebook/portfolio thingie - because I let them put me on camera telling 2 "jokes of the day" for their website (how to get a musician off your porch and the difference between a violin and a viola)


• One mild sunburn - I am SO not used to being in places and clothing where my shoulders can burn

Timing worked out pretty well - ashtalet and I wandered for a bit and were just getting tired and hot when it was time to head back to the library to pick up the tickets for the Tom Cahill presentation (The guy who wrote How The Irish Saved Civilization among other things), and then there was enough time for a lunch at Panera across ths treet before the actual presentation. Which was rather interesting despite suffereing from an overabundance of introductions. I'll not likely buy his latest but will look for it at the library.

Stopped off for some useful things at Walgreens and the fabric store on the way home and now that I've had a nice shower and a popsicle I'll be settling into my AC with my feet up and a pile of books. Yay me.

Comments

[nukekitty.livejournal.com]

So, what is the difference between a violin and a viola? (lol, the punchline, I know the real diff)

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

A viola burns longer.

[ladyniniane.livejournal.com]

And you get the musician off your porch by paying her for the pizza...

(rimshot)

[nukekitty.livejournal.com]

/snickers

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

My brother plays viola. "Violas burn longer" is my automatic response to that question even when people ask it in earnest. I've heard it too many times.

(Actually, I prefer the viola's sound to the violin's, meself. But who am I to talk? I play the BASS. Or, as some idiots call it, the "cello.")

[melissasutton.livejournal.com]

some very nice choices in that pile - I'd raid your book stash if i had the chance =)