Joy in the Morning, P.G. Wodehouse [1881-1975], 1947, 296 pages, ISBN 1585672769
... the super-sticky affair of Nobby Hopwood, Stilton Cheeswright, Flo
Joy in the Morning, P.G. Wodehouse [1881-1975], 1947, 296 pages, ISBN 1585672769
... the super-sticky affair of Nobby Hopwood, Stilton Cheeswright, Florence Craye, my Uncle Percy, J. Chichester Clam, Edwin the Boy Scout and old Boko Fittleworth--or, as my biographers will probably call it, the Steeple Bumpleigh Horror. (Chapter 1)
The root of the trouble was that she was one of those intellectual girls, steeped to the gills in serious purpose, who are unable to see a male soul without wanting to get behind it and shove. (Chapter 2)
'Jeeves,' he went on, emotionally, 'you must have that brain of yours pickled and presented to some national museum.' 'Very good, m'lord.' 'When you've done with it, of course.' (Chapter 29)
/Nicholas and the Gang/, René Goscinny (1926-1977), drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022), 1963 as /Le Petit Nicolas et les copains/. English tra/Nicholas and the Gang/, René Goscinny (1926-1977), drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022), 1963 as /Le Petit Nicolas et les copains/. English translation by Anthea Bell, 2007. Sixteen episodes in 110 pages. This is book #4 of 5 in the series. ISBN 9780714846781
Nicholas Again (2006) = Les récrés du Petit Nicolas (1961),
Nicholas on Vacation (2006) = Les vacances du Petit Nicolas (1962),(view spoiler)[
Dad Makes the Decisions The Beach The Life and Soul of the Party Spindrift Island Doing Gymnastics Miniature Golf Playing at Shops Home Again Being Sensible Going Away Courage Going Swimming Stormy Point The Afternoon Rest Treasure Hunt Fish Soup Crispin's Visitors Vacation Memories
Nicholas and the Gang (2007) = Le Petit Nicolas et les copains (1963),
Matthew Has Glasses A Breath of Fresh Air My Colored Pencils - shows at least 55 desks and 33 kids in the classroom. Going Camping Talking on the Radio Mary Jane Collecting Stamps Max's Conjuring Tricks A Rainy Day Playing Chess The Doctors The New Bookstore Rufus Is Sick(view spoiler)[ "Well," Rufus explained, "I tell my mom I don't feel well every morning, so she wasn't to know, was she? But this time I really and truly don't feel very well." (hide spoiler)] Athletics The Secret Code Mary Jane's Birthday
Nicholas in Trouble (2008) = Joachim a des ennuis (1964) (later edition Le Petit Nicolas a des ennuis)(view spoiler)[
Jeremy Has Problems The Letter The Value of Money Going Shopping with Dad Carrying Chairs My Flashlight Roulette Granny Comes to Stay Road Safety An Interesting Project Pot Luck The Raffle Our Badge The Secret Message Jonah A Piece of Chalk
/Nicholas in Trouble/, René Goscinny (1926-1977), drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022), 1964 as /Joachim a des ennuis/. English translation by A/Nicholas in Trouble/, René Goscinny (1926-1977), drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022), 1964 as /Joachim a des ennuis/. English translation by Anthea Bell, 2008. Sixteen episodes in 121 pages. This is book #5 of 5 in the series. ISBN 9780714848136
Cute and funny. Vignettes in the school life of an apparently-about-six-year-old boy. Each is 5 to 8 pages of story and pictures. Originally printed in a newspaper.
Nicholas Again (2006) = Les récrés du Petit Nicolas (1961),
Nicholas on Vacation (2006) = Les vacances du Petit Nicolas (1962),
Nicholas and the Gang (2007) = Le Petit Nicolas et les copains (1963),
Nicholas in Trouble (2008) = Joachim a des ennuis (1964) (later edition Le Petit Nicolas a des ennuis)
Jeremy Has Problems The Letter The Value of Money Going Shopping with Dad Carrying Chairs My Flashlight Roulette Granny Comes to Stay Road Safety An Interesting Project Pot Luck The Raffle Our Badge The Secret Message Jonah A Piece of Chalk
Nicholas Again, René Goscinny (1926-1977), drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022), 1961 as Les Récrés du Petit Nicolas = Little Nicholas's Recess.Nicholas Again, René Goscinny (1926-1977), drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022), 1961 as Les Récrés du Petit Nicolas = Little Nicholas's Recess. English translation by Anthea Bell, 2006. 120 pages (110 plus front and end matter). This is book #2 of 5 in the series.
Cute and funny. Vignettes in the school life of an apparently-about-six-year-old boy. Each is 6 or 8 pages of story and pictures. Originally printed in a newspaper.
Luckily, I'm very good at telling time, not like last year when I was little and I'd have had to go around asking people what my watch said all the time. --"My Watch."
Last day of school: All the way home I was telling myself how great it was, no more school, no more lessons, no more homework, no more detentions, no more fights in break, and now I couldn't see my friends for months and months, and we wouldn't have any chance to play around together, and I was going to be dreadfully sad and lonely. --"Prizegiving Day."
The Penguin Book of American Folk Songs, Compiled and Edited with Notes by Alan Lomax: 111 ballads, sea shanties, love songs, lullabies, reels, work sThe Penguin Book of American Folk Songs, Compiled and Edited with Notes by Alan Lomax: 111 ballads, sea shanties, love songs, lullabies, reels, work songs, cowboy songs, and spirituals popular in America from Colonial days to modern times. Piano Arrangements by Elizabeth Poston, guitar chords. 1964. 159 pages. Dewey 784.4
16 Yankee songs
18 Southern mountain songs
Includes this version of "Darlin', you can't love one," p. 54: Darlin, you can't love one (x2), You can't love one and have any fun, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love two (x2), You can't love and to me be true, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love three (x2), You can't love three and get along with me, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love four (x2), You can't love four and come knocking at my door, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love five (x2), You can't love five and get honey from my hive, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love six (x2), You can't love six and keep me in this fix, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love seven (x2), You can't love seven and expect to go to heaven, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love eight (x2), You can't love eight and keep this business straight, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love nine (x2), You can't love nine and see me all the time, Darlin' … Darlin, you can't love ten (x2), You can't love ten and be welcome here again, Darlin' …
18 Lullabies and reels
including Go to sleepy, little baby, p. 54 Mockingbird, p. 54 Frog went a-courtin', p. 61 Get along home, Cindy, p. 69
19 Spirituals and work songs
including Cherry Tree Carol, p. 77 Poor wayfaring stranger, p. 78 Nobody knows the trouble I see, p. 79
14 Western songs
including Whoopie-ti-yi-yo p. 107
26 Modern times
including The Midnight Special, p. 125 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, p. 129, parody of Baptist hymn, Hallelujah, Thine the Glory St. James Infirmary, p. 134 The Titanic, p. 136 Worried Man, p. 137 Irene Goodnight, p. 138 Which Side Are You On?, p. 139 Blowin' down the Road, p. 140
American Folk Guitar Style, including chords and rhythms, pp. 147-151
This #32 is the best yet. Good characters, good pacing, some humor. Murder at a posh girls' school.
Dear Mummy, We had a murder last night. ... It happe
This #32 is the best yet. Good characters, good pacing, some humor. Murder at a posh girls' school.
Dear Mummy, We had a murder last night. ... It happened in the middle of the night and the police came and this morning they're asking everybody questions. Miss Chadwick told us not to talk to anybody about it but I thought you'd like to know. With love, Jennifer
I hope they don't kill Chaddy next. I'd rather it was Mademoiselle Blanche, wouldn't you?
Great historical novels. The story of the making of England, behind the human story of individual people (fictional and historical). King Alfred "The Great,” 866 CE and later. Many times it seems that England should have been Daneland—Saxons eke out one unlikely victory after another. Cornwell writes as though he’s stood in a shield wall and gutted his enemy; as though he’s raced a viking longboat through a rocky channel on a flooding tide. Cornwell puts you there—much better than either a dry recitation of facts or a worshipful biography. Each book ends with an exciting battle. Protagonist Uhtred of Bebbanburg was born 857 CE.
Sword of Kings (The Saxon Stories, #12) Uhtred has sworn to kill three Saxon leaders, so heads south to join a Saxon civil war which, if Uhtred succeeds, will hasten the day when Saxons attack Uhtred's Northumbria. Set in 924 CE. Uhtred is 67 years old.
The Flame Bearer (The Saxon Stories, #10) 917 CE, Northumbria, East Anglia. Uhtred hopes to retake the almost-unassailable fortress of Bebbanburg. Against him are the warriors of his usurping cousin, of the West Saxons, of the Scots, of the Norse, and of a treacherous mad bishop.
Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3) England and surrounding seas, 878–880 CE. Danes, Saxons, Scots and churchmen contend for control of Northumbria. Exciting finish. Slavery and sea trade.
The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2) Southern England, 877–878 CE, Alfred's West Saxons try to keep Guthrum's Danes from completing the conquest of England. Bernard Cromwell writes with "you are there" immediacy. Wonderful stories.
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1) Great historical novel, England 866–877 CE, Danes take northern England, Alfred's West Saxons fight to save the south. Our protagonist is the son of an English earl, captured and raised by the Danes who kill his father, age 9–20. Well-drawn characters, a page-turner.
Cornwell’s approach is to put his heroes in a difficult situation, then see how they get out of it. Works a treat!
Uhtred is delightfully irreverent: “small group of priests I admired and liked, hugely outnumbered by the corrupt, venal, ambitious clerics who governed the church.” (book 9 p. 132 of 481) “Good decent men rarely achieve power in the church. Sly and ambitious ones gain preferment.” (book 8 p. 141 of 296) “I wouldn’t trust your god to save a worm.” (book 9 p. 271 of 481) “The Christian god was just as capable of losing his temper and slaughtering children as any god in Asgard. If the purpose of life was to be an unpredictable, murderous tyrant, then it would be easy to be godlike.” (book 9 p. 308 of 481)
The books are fiction but mostly consistent with what’s known to have really happened. Cornwell will take a terse note in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and write a story around it. Uhtred is fictional—but people like him existed. There’s a Historical Note at the end of each book where Cornwell “confesses his sins”—admits some of his main departures from history.
The chronology is pretty close to true, with departures for the sake of the story. In Cornwell’s books, Alfred’s grandson Æthelstan (actually born 895) is about 9 or 10 in 911 CE (book 8, pp. 4, 48, 56 of 296), 14 or 15 in 914 CE (book 9, pp. 10, 56 of 481), and 22 or 23 in 917 CE (book 10, pp. 138, 281 of 284).
Cornwell says he started writing because he was refused a green card by the Carter administration: writing novels was a job you don’t need a government permit to do.
Cornwell says it takes him about 6 months to write a 125,000-word book. Amazingly prolific: and his stuff is good.
There's a TV series, The Last Kingdom, but it bears little similarity to the books.
By Goscinny & Morris, originally published in French in 1975 as /La Guérison des Dalton/ (A Cure for the Daltons). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_CBy Goscinny & Morris, originally published in French in 1975 as /La Guérison des Dalton/ (A Cure for the Daltons). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cur... Very funny.
/Nicholas/, René Goscinny (1926-1977), drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022), 1960 as /Petit Nicolas = Little Nicholas/. English translation by A/Nicholas/, René Goscinny (1926-1977), drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022), 1960 as /Petit Nicolas = Little Nicholas/. English translation by Anthea Bell, 2005. Nineteen episodes in 127 pages. This is book #1 of 5 in the series.
Cute and funny. Vignettes in the school life of an apparently-about-six-year-old boy. Each is 6 or 8 pages of story and pictures. Originally printed in a newspaper.
"On my report card it said: 'A rowdy and often inattentive pupil, given to fighting with his friends. Could do better.'" --"Our Report Cards."
The front and back covers show a picture with 38 kids and a harassed teacher.
Nicholas books: 222 stories in 8 collections (of 223 originally written): https://www.goodreads.com/series/6358... https://www.petitnicolas.com/livre/le... Nicholas (2005) = Le Petit Nicolas (1960), Nicholas Again (2006) = Les récrés du Petit Nicolas (1961), Nicholas on Vacation (2006) = Les vacances du Petit Nicolas (1962), Nicholas and the Gang (2007) = Le Petit Nicolas et les copains (1963), Nicholas in Trouble (2008) = Joachim a des ennuis (1964) (later edition Le Petit Nicolas a des ennuis)
The Coming of Conan, Robert E. Howard, 2002 compilation of the first 13 Conan stories Howard wrote, in the order he wrote them, 1932 - 1934. Drawings The Coming of Conan, Robert E. Howard, 2002 compilation of the first 13 Conan stories Howard wrote, in the order he wrote them, 1932 - 1934. Drawings by Mark Schultz. 464pp. ISBN 9780345461513
Lad lit. Sword-and-sorcery.
1. The Phoenix and the Sword. Conan is king in Aquilonia. "I did not dream far enough, Prospero. When King Numedides lay dead at my feet and I tore the crown from his gory head and set it on my own, I had reached the ultimate border of my dreams. I had prepared myself to take the crown, not to hold it. In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless." p. 11. ****
2. The Frost-Giant's Daughter. Conan is a reaver in the frozen north. ****
3. The God in the Bowl. Conan is a thief in Nemedia. ***
4. The Tower of the Elephant. Conan is a thief in Zamora. "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." p. 63. ****
5. The Scarlet Citadel. King Conan of Aquilonia is captive in Koth. ****
6. Queen of the Black Coast. Conan is a pirate on the coast of Cush. ". . . the judge squalled that I had shown contempt for the court, and that I should be hurled into a dungeon to rot until I betrayed my friend. So then, seeing they were all mad, I drew my sword and cleft the judge's skull . . ." p. 123. "Crom. . . . is grim and loveless, but at birth he breathes power to strive and slay into a man's soul. What else shall men ask of the gods?" p. 133. Bêlit. ****
7. Black Colossus. Conan is a mercenary captain in Khoraja. ****
8. Iron Shadows in the Moon. Conan is a rogue on the borders of Koth, Zamora, and Turan. Vilayet, the inland sea. "As she tore her tender skin and bruised her soft limbs on the rugged boulders over which Conan had so lightly lifted her, she realized again her dependence on the iron-thewed barbarian." p. 208. ****
9. Xuthal of the Dusk. Conan is survivor of an army destroyed on the borders of Kush. ****
10. The Pool of the Black One. Conan is a pirate off the southern coast of Zingara. The pirate captain "made the mistake so many autocrats make; . . . he under-estimated the man below him." p. 254. ***
11. Rogues in the House. Conan is a thief in a nameless city. ***
12. The Vale of Lost Women. Conan is war-chief of the Bamulas in Kush. "Women are cheap as plantains in this land, and their willingness or unwillingness matters as little." "If a man is strong enough, he can enforce a few of his native customs anywhere." p. 308. "You're not the proper woman for the war-chief of the Bamulas." p. 317. ****
13. The Devil in Iron. Conan is chief of the /kozaks/ harrying the borders of Turan. p. 324. ****
Howard's world is the land that would one day be Europe and northern Africa--but it's set after the sinking of Atlantis, yet before the last glaciation, before the formation of the Mediterranean, North, and Baltic Seas and part of the northeastern Atlantic, and before the massive inland sea of Vilayet evaporated down to what would become the Caspian. Howard's races are ancestors of today's races. Howard drew maps, pages 423 and 425, and wrote a thorough prehistory, history, and posthistory of the Hyborean Age, pages 381-398. The Conan stories take place during the heyday of the Hyborean nations.
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