I went to another branch library to checkout their sale shelf and garnered only this, with three wishes pending. I haven't had an Asterix book for several years and found it well plotted, with the colorful drawings printed on coated stock paper.
I was in high school during the JFK Administration, classmates begged students to take Latin, lest the class no longer be offered. Latin seems to have disappeared from high schools today, so apparently this popular series of books had no effect.
Unfortunately, while the book is ex-library, with usual markings, otherwise AF, the first two wishers wanted nothing that had been around smokers and I don't know where the book has been nor do I have a strong sense of smell. The third and last wisher has fairly stringent requirements for the
DJ and as I don't have the book with me, I fear that might kill the deal. I don't know if it was issued with a DJ. It is certain to find an interested reader if I leave it on the 'free' book truck at this branch library where I just left a Nat. Geog. map and the magazine that reviews video games.
On the bus I read several pages of De Grand's 'Italian Fascism' that I ordered with three other books to burn some credits (I find many wish-listed books, but our wish list is mostly obscure tomes wanted by gals and guys in the old soldiers' home that rarely pop up) and found it to be excellent. I am not that interested in Il Duce or Italy but will enjoy reading a couple of chapters today. It might find a reader at the old soldiers' home (few readers) and certainly at the VA Hospital lobby (many readers). The book probably only one previous reader, a student who highlighted the last chapter. But some defects are acceptable to us, rather than pass on an interesting book.
My point is that good things happen when we accept material that falls short of Alibris standards....
I was in high school during the JFK Administration, classmates begged students to take Latin, lest the class no longer be offered. Latin seems to have disappeared from high schools today, so apparently this popular series of books had no effect.
Unfortunately, while the book is ex-library, with usual markings, otherwise AF, the first two wishers wanted nothing that had been around smokers and I don't know where the book has been nor do I have a strong sense of smell. The third and last wisher has fairly stringent requirements for the
DJ and as I don't have the book with me, I fear that might kill the deal. I don't know if it was issued with a DJ. It is certain to find an interested reader if I leave it on the 'free' book truck at this branch library where I just left a Nat. Geog. map and the magazine that reviews video games.
On the bus I read several pages of De Grand's 'Italian Fascism' that I ordered with three other books to burn some credits (I find many wish-listed books, but our wish list is mostly obscure tomes wanted by gals and guys in the old soldiers' home that rarely pop up) and found it to be excellent. I am not that interested in Il Duce or Italy but will enjoy reading a couple of chapters today. It might find a reader at the old soldiers' home (few readers) and certainly at the VA Hospital lobby (many readers). The book probably only one previous reader, a student who highlighted the last chapter. But some defects are acceptable to us, rather than pass on an interesting book.
My point is that good things happen when we accept material that falls short of Alibris standards....
