I hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday had a lovely day. The enchiladas here were as fantastic as always and the pumpkin pie was to die for. Today is let’s do it again in leftovers day. Tomorrow will be how much more leftovers are left day. And Sunday will be thank goodness these are the last of the leftovers day.
I spent most of yesterday reading but the reading was all for school. Interesting stuff to be sure. I think I might try and put a little something together, a bite-size info snack, a list of resources sort of thing as an extra tab on the blog for digital preservation of personal documents. If there are other sorts of library or information related things you might like to know more about let me know and I can see about putting other pages together in my copious amounts of spare time. Or at least make a plan to do it when I do get spare time which won’t be much longer now!
For those who are out shopping this weekend and wondering about good science and technology books, Booklist has a top ten of 2010 sci-tech list. One of them The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is already on my personal TBR list, but I’ll be adding a couple more. That book on the list about Galileo looks good as does the math-free quantum mechanics book. And the Einstein and Bohr book and the book about snails, and, oh heck I might as well just put them all on my TBR list. Do you ever find yourself wishing you weren’t curious about so many different things? It sure would make life simpler. And cheaper. But then again, it’s also one reason why I am in library school.
I hope you all have a good weekend!
Yes, curiosity does lead to big piles of books–I agree! And one book always leads to another one and generally messes up my carefully laid out reading plans. I might do a little online shopping this weekend, but you couldn’t pay me to stand outside in the cold dark of night for the chance to buy something cheap. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Happy Thanksgiving Stef
We enjoyed a “turkey free” thanksgiving! I was thinking of you the other night I was watching the TV show THE MIDDLE & Brick (the little boy in the show) was SO EXCITED b/c one of the guests for Thanksgiving was bringing a LIBRARIAN as his date…. It was really very cute.
Hmmm, intriguing list. I’m looking for Mister Litlove, really, and will have to see which of those books has made it over to the UK. Lots there I can see him enjoying. And I did laugh at your remarks about leftovers. That made me feel like Christmas is almost here!
Your idea of putting information up about digital preservation is great and would be greatly appreciated (although no pressure!). The science books sound fabulous! I should read the science books already on my shelves, though, probably …
Happy belated thanksgiving (I’m always late at this since we don’t celebrate here). I hope you’re not too fed up with leftovers!
Cool list! A subgenre of a larger subgenre of a genre of books that’s typically less discussed… thanks for sharing. Now, to muse…
Danielle, I love how one books leads to another but oh, you are right! It messes up the best laid reading plans. How are we ever going to read everything we want to?
Helen, yay for turkey-free Thanksgivings! I had no idea librarians elicited so much excitement!
Litlove, I hope you find something good for Mr. Litlove. You’ll eventually have to share the title
And yes, Christmas will no soon be upon us!
Dorothy, thanks! I was hoping it might be useful and it gives my project more purpose than a paper. I’ve got some unread science books on my shelf too, but news ones sometimes look too good to resist.
Smithereens, thank you! Leftovers are now gone and it is back to regular eating at least until Solstice!
Bibliobio, I am a wannabe science geek so I love booklists like this one. I hope you find something on it to enjoy!
The only thing I regretted about going to Chicago for Thanksgiving was not being able to bring back leftovers!! They are almost better the second time around. From the list, the book about predictions that never came true sounds like fun!
Grad, too bad you didn’t get any leftovers. Maybe for Christmas? If not, I’ll send you some of mine
Yes, I constantly find myself wishing I weren’t curious about so many things! (Which is why I am making an effort not to click on that link. Let’s see how long I last.) Hope the leftovers are all gone now before you really began to wish you had no more. I love the idea or your new tab when you have the time.
Emily, you need to click on that link Emily. There are some books there I know you would like. Oh, wait, maybe you shouldn’t click on it then