Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Some books I happen to be cataloguing...

This one is twisted, but FUNNY!!: The Rejection Collection: Cartoons you never saw, and never will see, in The New Yorker. Don't say I didn't warn you, but you will laugh out loud and say, oh, that is just SO wrong. From the jacket flap, "Too risqué, silly, or weird for The New Yorker, the cartoons in this book offer something no other collection has: They have never been seen in print until now." Bonus features: a handwritten questionaire filled out by each of the cartoonists. DDC: 741.56973 (Caricatures--United States)

Weird and Wonderful Words. On the cover (illustrated by Roz Chast, one of my favorites) are illustrated the words Hodmandod, Pollictor, Gammerstang, Mammothrept and Batie-Bummil.
Inside you'll find definitions to such words as iconomach, "a rare word meaning 'one who is hostile to images.'" DDC: 423.10207 (Speller-dividers--English language, . . ./Humorous Treatment)

Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey, the sweet liquid gold that seduced the world. From the back cover, "Honey has been waiting almost ten million year for a good biography." DDC: 638.16 (Honey processing)

Just in time for Christmas or any other gift-giving holiday: Gifted: 1,000 gift ideas for everyone in your life. Chapters are broken out into types of giftees: The Gadget Geek, The Princess, The Mommy-any-Minute. There's even a chapter of Get Well Gifts (I had to see what The Laid up and Lonely was.) Some suggestions, should you have to come up with a last minute feel better friend gift:

(Yes, each gift has its own website listed, and a nifty system of letting you know how expensive the gift is: one box with a ribbon is up to $25, five boxes is over $500.) DDC: 394 (General customs)

Yes, this is the glam life of the Technical Services Librarian. New books, I love them so! They even smell wonderful.

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This just in: Pittsburgh has a new neighborhood, Eastside. Yes, it's not quite geographically Shadyside, but they don't want to call it East Liberty (too ghetto?) so retailers (and some residents) have taken on the name of the development company as the geographic label for the area where we now have a Whole Foods, Walgreens, Starbucks, and YES YES YES, a new Borders. The Grand Opening is this weekend, click on the link for the schedule. I have never seen Joe Grushecky in person, so I might have to wander over...I adore acoustic live music...

2 comments:

Katy said...

That Whole Foods? Its in S'Liberty, no doubt about it. They might want to call it Eastside, and it might work, but its still just gentrified East Liberty.

That is all.

Well, maybe not. Did you find the Al Jazeera book? Where did you catalog it?

Sarah Louise said...

I'll go looking for the Al Jazeera book.

What makes me madder than the East side thing (which I'm like "meh" about) is that Christmas trees at the Union Project are $90.

Um, who are we trying to sell these too? Surely folks that live in the 'hood can't shell out that kind of cash...I may post about this later once my white heat rage has subsided...

Merry Happy Christmas!! (I'm thinking about that song from South Park right now...)