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- The Warden<\/i>\/Barchester Towers<\/i> by Anthony Trollope. Because it was an old edition, and I remember the name Trollope from something. Maybe I was thinking of Lionel Trilling, come to think of it. Oh, well, what will it hurt? I mean, other than these are the first two in a series of books set in Britain in the 19th century.\n<\/li>\n
- Finch’s Fortune<\/i> and Wakefield’s Course<\/i>, two novels in a series about life at the Jalna homestead, home of the Whiteoak family, which take place in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.\n<\/li>\n
- Mazo de la Roche of Jalna<\/i>, a book about the author of the preceding books. Apparently, I have the fruits of one of de la Roche’s two American fans.\n<\/li>\n
- How to Read a Poem<\/i>, in case I have been doing it wrong. I suspect most academics would tell me I have.\n<\/li>\n
- London in Dickens’ Day<\/i>, a book that should help ground the Dickens books I’ll be reading. As you remember, in my report for Oliver Twist<\/i><\/a>, I lamented that all pre-20th century books’ historical details kind of blurred.\n<\/li>\n
- The Sociopath Next Door<\/i>, so I can learn if I am tipping my pitches.\n<\/li>\n
- Spanish Step by Step<\/i>, so when I go on a refresher kick, I’ll have one more textbook to read.\n<\/li>\n
- Rhineland: Winter in a Missouri River Town<\/i>, a low print run, very local history sort of book just because I could.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Additionally, I bought three VHS tapes to watch on a tiny 25″ screen where the quality won’t suffer (yeah, verily, I said 25″ was tiny, because in the 21st century friends, it’s iPod screens or what we used to call “Big Screen” televisions). These include:<\/p>\n
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- Mallrats<\/i>, which I think is probably Smith’s second best work (after Chasing Amy<\/i>); reviewing this will help firm up or reject that thesis.\n<\/li>\n
- Dirty Work<\/i>, Norm MacDonald’s finest work excluding the Hardee’s star voiceover work.\n<\/li>\n
- Kentucky Fried Movie<\/i>, which I have never seen even though it’s Zucker\/Abrahams\/Zucker film.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Also, I got two record albums of jazz and big band sort of music and two CDs of the University City (Missouri) Symphony Orchestra. I didn’t even know U City had a symphony orchestra.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow is another Saturday, so no doubt I’ll be trolling for a couple more books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Dirty Work<\/i>, Norm MacDonald’s finest work excluding the Hardee’s star voiceover work.\n<\/li>\n
- Finch’s Fortune<\/i> and Wakefield’s Course<\/i>, two novels in a series about life at the Jalna homestead, home of the Whiteoak family, which take place in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.\n<\/li>\n