There’s a new biography out, by Mark Adams, about one of my favorite authors, Bernarr Macfadden. It’s called How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet. The Post had a review today – I haven’t read the book yet but plan to pick up a copy!
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Birds and the Bees Poll
My brother’s site iBrattleboro.com has a fun poll this week: I learned the most about ‘the birds and the bees’ from… My response was “books” of course. Yours?
Birthday Chats with Tomorrow’s Man – a little family history
cover Originally uploaded by Miss Abigail. I recently had the pleasure of hearing from a woman named Robin, the granddaughter of Louis Le Claire Jones, author of the 1940 Birthday Chats with Tomorrow’s Man. She had done a Google search after finding a photocopy of her grandfather’s book and stumbled across this site. She writes […]
New York Public Library Event of Interest
Looks like this NYPL event could be fun for those interested in vintage craft books (of which I have a few). Too bad I have to work (and live 4 hours away)!
Cataloging in the New Year
I’ve been spending the last few weeks adding more of my many, many books to my LibraryThing catalog. I’m up to over 550! Woohoo! About halfway there! (This is a slooow, manual process, since most of my books don’t have ISBNs or LCCNs I can’t take advantage of their auto-import function.) My book database originally […]
Full
So we’re wrapping up a week in Sanibel, Florida. I’m pretty dang full – of turkey, of sunshine, of family happiness, of grouper, of excitement (at seeing gators and bobcat and birds and dolphin and sunsets), of chlorine from the pool and hottub. Ahhh… Anyway, just wanted to say happy slightly belated Thanksgiving everyone!
Miss Abigail Officially Endorses…
Barack and Michelle Obama and Joe and Jill Biden! Based strictly not on their policies, of course, or their ability to govern this fine nation, but on some Miss Abigail-related silliness. Heck, I just like the Obama courting Michelle story. Michelle fell hard, but not at first. Perhaps she was reading The Intelligent Woman’s Guide […]
New Book on Emily Post
Over the last few years I’ve been in contact off and on with author Laura Claridge, who just published a book about Emily Post titled Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners. I haven’t gotten my copy yet but did spot this write up in Slate this week. If you are […]
Not exactly GOOD advice…
I stumbled across this today at work, an exhibit from the Stanford School of Medicine titled Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the Tobacco Industry Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Actually, browsing some of the “Images by Theme” is pretty entertaining (if not a bit scary). Check […]
Hello from London!
I’m writing from London, here this week for a work conference and meetings at the British Library. Today’s my one free day off, so the musician and I are about to head out for a canal ride and market browsing, and maybe some other low-key sightseeing. I’ve been here before, once in high school (when […]