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Post by Lucky Dan on Nov 29, 2022 5:37:03 GMT
Came home today from Half Price Books with a couple of volumes that I'm sure to find challenging.
A Chartwell Classics edition of The Republic translated by the respected 19th century scholar Benjamin Jowett, crisp and new.
And a worn but mostly unabused paperback copy of Emotion and Meaning in Music by composer and professor Leonard B. Meyer, first published in 1956, which examines "the meanings of music and the processes by which they are communicated." I probably won't be able to absorb most of it but I don't really need to. I'm sure to come away with something. 
Oh. And a 10th anniversary edition of The Big Lebowski.
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Post by Hrothgar on Dec 12, 2022 1:22:31 GMT
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Post by Hrothgar on Dec 12, 2022 1:25:22 GMT
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Post by Hrothgar on Dec 12, 2022 1:47:51 GMT
I found this copy of The Decameron some time ago at a City Library Book Sale. The book has about 700 pages with a least two of these illustrations on each page. So we're looking at about 1,500 in all (sometime there three). Many are quite smaller. We get intricate looks at the apparel, head dressings, architecture, multiple folk in town settings, etc. The articulate sketches are more sophisticated and detailed than you see from these uploaded here. I couldn't believe it when I ran across this book. I doubt it's worth anything but the taking in hand is enough. I still haven't actually gazed upon every single illustration, it will be an ongoing pleasure. In the future I may be liable to post a few of these fine illustrations, most smaller than the above and more than on one on a site page. With these smaller ones the detail will be much more gratifying.
This library had a monthly book sales that were wonderful. Libraries are great places for book sales. They are run by volunteers and sometimes I wonder if they what their selling. Alas, discontinued because of Covid and not yet (if ever) restored.
--Hrothgar
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Post by ando on Dec 12, 2022 17:14:02 GMT
This library had a monthly book sales that were wonderful. Libraries are great places for book sales. They are run by volunteers and sometimes I wonder if they what their selling. Alas, discontinued because of Covid and not yet (if ever) restored.
--Hrothgar
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Post by Mayo on Apr 9, 2023 18:22:42 GMT
Just ran across this title:
Eddie Muller's Noir Bar : Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir. "Eddie Muller--host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur--takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore. Eddie Muller's Noir Bar pairs carefully curated classic cocktails and modern noir-inspired libations with behind-the-scenes anecdotes and insights on 50 film noir favorites. Some of the cocktails are drawn directly from the films: If you've seen In a Lonely Place and wondered what's in a "Horse's Neck"--now you'll know. If you're watching Pickup on South Street you'll find out what its director, Sam Fuller, actually drank off-screen. Didn't know that Nightmare Alley's Joan Blondell inspired a cocktail? It may become a new favorite. Meanwhile, Rita Hayworth is toasted with a "Sailor Beware," an original concoction which, like the film that inspired it (The Lady From Shanghai), is unique, complex, and packs a wallop."
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Post by BunnyWhit on May 6, 2023 1:53:53 GMT
Came home today from Half Price Books with a couple of volumes that I'm sure to find challenging.
A Chartwell Classics edition of The Republic translated by the respected 19th century scholar Benjamin Jowett, crisp and new.
And a worn but mostly unabused paperback copy of Emotion and Meaning in Music by composer and professor Leonard B. Meyer, first published in 1956, which examines "the meanings of music and the processes by which they are communicated." I probably won't be able to absorb most of it but I don't really need to. I'm sure to come away with something.
Oh. And a 10th anniversary edition of The Big Lebowski.
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