Another load of books going out the door

 I talked to my brother last night and told him I was going through the books--it's like drowning puppies for me.  And he said, it seems like you're always cleaning out the bookshelves.  And it's true.  Got some hard core this time. Even my husband pulled a few from his shelves. They are in the back of the van now. 

Ten centuries of European hospital architecture. Denkwart Leistikow. Translation. 249 p. of plates. 1967. $30 at ABE.com

Space, time and architecture. Sigfried Giedion. 5th ed. rev. and enl. 1967. $15 at ABE.com.

The Wenger Book.  A foundation book of American Wengers.  Samuel S. Wenger. 1978.  $130.  One of my great greats was a Wenger, but it was a different branch.  I bought this used many years ago.

Vanity Fair selection from America's . . . 1920s and 1930s. Cleveland Amory, ed.  Viking Press, 1960. $15 at ABE.com 

Smithsonian Book of books. Michael Olmert. 1992 Reprint by Wings. 1995. $20 at ABE.com

Contemporary American Women Poests--anthology. Tooni Gordi, ed. 1936. $40 ABE.com

The Horizon History of Russia, Arts of Russia. 2 vol boxed set. 1970. $50

12 rules for life. Jordon Peterson Penguin Random House. 2018. $15

The story of Jesus. Edward Wagenknecht. Creative Age Press. 1946. $10

Caught in the Revolution. Helen Rappaport St. Martin's Press. Advanced copy. 2016. $7

God, Trump and the 2020 election. Stephen E. Strang. 2020  $12

The race to save the Romanovs. Helen Rappaport. 1st ed US. St. Martin's Press, 2018. $20

(The great ages of world architecture) Roman, Rococo, Modern, Gothic. 3d printing 1967. $20

Coronado's children; Tales of lost mines. J. Frank Dobie, Literary Guild of America $10.

Atlantic Monthly. Vol 1 no. 1 Nov 1857-1858

The Bookman; a literary journal vol 1 Feb 1895-July 1895 Dodd Mead and Co.

Columbus homes and lifestyle vol 1 no. 5 Jan-Feb 1985 (saved for watercolors of painters we know)

The charm of the chapel. Daniel L. Marsh. Boston University Press. 1950.

Live wire; long winded short stories. Kelly Ripa. Deyst. 2022.

Christian books looking for believers at the book sale

 Bernstein, Carl and Politi, Marco.  His holiness; John Paul II and the hidden history of our time. Doubleday,1996.

Smedes, Lewis B. Forgive and forget; healing the hurts we don't deserve. Guideposts, 1984. 

A heavy load--I hate to give them up, but they are going to the UAPL sale.

Jeremiah, David.  Revealing the mysteries of heaven. Study guide. Turning point. 2017,

Sullivan, Francis A. Magisterium; teaching authority in the Catholic Church. Paulist Press, 1983.

McKenzie, John L. Authority in the church. Sheed and Ward, 1966.

Nordman, Paul. Christ in me. 48 daily Reflections. Xulon Press. 2016.

William Tyndale's New Testament. Wordsworth Classics. 2002.

Streams in the desert.  366 Daily Devotional readings.     Zondervan, 1997.

Stedman, Rick. Praying the armor of God.  Harvest House.2015.

Bible stories. 2009,

Bibliia [Russian].Trinitarian Bible Society, n.d.

1001 ideas that changed the way we think. Atria books. 2013.

Hallesby, O. Prayer. Augsburg,1994

Used paperbacks off to the book sale

 Goldberg, Philip and Prevention Magazine. Pain remedies.  Dell, 1997

Rapoport, Alan. Conquering headache. 3d rev. ed. Empowering press, 2001.

Genealogy online for dummies. IDG Books. 1998.

iPad for seniors for dummies. 8th ed. 2016. 

Honeycutt, Kim, ed. What lurks  . .? Lakeside writing project., Blurb, 2012.

Howard, W.J. Doing simple math in your head. Coast Publishing, 1992.

Atkins, Robert. Art speak; a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1945 to the present. 2nd edition. Abbeville Press, 1997.

New or barely used hard cover books out the door

Babb, Valerie.  A history of the African American novel. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

McElhinney, Ann and McAleer, Phelim. Gosnell; the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer.  Regnery Publishing, 2017.

Levin, Mark R.  American Marxism. Threshold editions, 2021.

Murray, Charles.  Coming apart; the state of white America, 1960-2010. Crown Forum, 2012.

Hamilton, Alexander, Madison, James, Jay, John. The Federalist. Barnes & Noble Books, 1996.

McCullough, David.  1776. Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Gilbert, Martin. A history of the 20th century, vol. 3, 1952-1999. William Morrow & Co., 1999.

History, biography and Mary Higgins Clark to the UAPL booksale

 

Faces from the past. Richard M. Ketchum. American Heritage Press, 1970. Essays with photos. I think that's Zachary Taylor on the cover.

The 5000 year leap; the 28 great ideas that changed the world. W. Cleon Skousen. National Center for Constitutional Studies, 2006.

Blackout. Candace Owens. 2020.

Settle for more. Megyn Kelly. 2016.

Mary Higgins Clark mysteries. All hard cover. Bob has enjoyed these--most came from the UAPL sale for him to enjoy in his easy chair.

Daddy's gone a hunting. 2013

All around the town. 1992

The second time around. 2003

As time goes by.2016

All by myself alone. 2017

Cook books looking for a new kitchen

 These will probably go the UAPL book sale. Not even a splatter on these.  I think I read them, but didn't use them. Taste of Home are lovely to look at--originally were from Wisconsin.  The quilt shows by the Amish in Lakeside were fun--bought some there--given away over the years, but this may be the last.

Explore Ohio cookbook and travel guide. Christy Campbell. 2015.

The market fresh cookbook; Taste of Home. 2006.

Sara's family recipes Valentine & Sara Hershberger, Baltic Ohio.  c. 1996. Bought at the Lakeside quilt show, July 1998.

Best of the best from Illinois cookbook. Selected recipes from Illinois' favorite cookbooks. Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley. Quail Ridge Press, 1995.

Taste of Home Christmas 2011. Reiman Media Group. Reader's Digest Association. 2011.

Foods that harm foods that heal.  Reader's Digest Association. 2004.

Books leaving home, Architecture, January 2025

 Book lovers love to collect and grieve when the books need to go.  Here's the list leaving home in January, 2025

Architecture as space; how to look at architecture. Bruno Zevi. Horizon Press, 1957.

202 outstanding city house ideas.  Manuel Gutierrez Couto. Firefly Books, 2016.  We kept this on the coffee table for several years and browsed as needed.  Someone will enjoy.

The old house book of cottages and bungalows. Compiled by Lawrence Grow. Main Street Press, Pittstown, New Jersey, 1987. Here's the problem with "weeding."  On p. 103 is the floor plan of the home of my friend Lynne in Mt. Morris, IL described as California mission styled bungalow. Many adorable 2 bedroom homes.

The plywood house. Prepared by the School of Architecture of Pratt Institute. 71 p. Internet record says published in 1966, but I can't find it on the piece. I think it was part of an exhibition.

Your new house; the alert consumer's guide to buying and building a quality home. by Alan & Denise Fields, Windsor Peak Press, 1993.

Historic houses of America open to the public (An American Heritage guide) 1971. 320 p.

Twentieth Century American architecture; a traveler's guide to 220 key buildings. Sydney LeBlanc. Revised and expanded 2nd edition. Whitney Guide. Whitney Library of Design, 1996.

Arkkitehti [Finnish architectural review] v. 7, no. 8, 1976.  It's my guess this came from Erkki Alanen who lived with us when he first came to Columbus.

Plans for concrete houses. 3rd ed. Portland Cement Assocation, 1925. Insert is an order blank to buy more books, 79 p. This was my grandparents'.

F.A. Hayek on totalitarianism of the Leftists

How should we conservatives think about race and critical theory, CRT; the misnamed gender affirmation or transgenderism; the climate change cult; abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy; free and open borders ; mandates that didn't reduce the toll of the pandemic and had never been tried before? F.A. Hayek had some thoughts.

" Incredible as some of these aberrations [spirit of totalitarianism] may appear, we must yet be on our guard not to dismiss them as mere accidental by-products which have nothing to do with the essential character of a planned or totalitarian system. They are not. THEY ARE A DIRECT RESULT OF THAT SAME DESIRE TO SEE EVERYTHING DIRECTED BY A "UNITARY CONCEPTION OF THE WHOLE," of the need to uphold at all costs the views in the service of which people are asked to make constant sacrifices, and of the general idea that the knowledge and beliefs of the people are an instrument to be used for a single purpose. Once science has to serve, not TRUTH, but the interests of a class, a community or a state, the sole task of argument and discussion is to vindicate and to spread still further the beliefs by which the whole life of the community is directed. As the Nazi minister of justice has explained, the question which every new scientific theory must ask itself is: "Do I serve National Socialism for the greatest benefit of all?"

The word TRUTH itself ceases to have its old meaning. . . it becomes something to be laid down by AUTHORITY, something which has to be believed in the interest of the unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it. p. 178 "The Road to Serfdom; text and documents. F.A. Hayek, 1944, 2007. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo4138549.html

New and slightly used Bible study books being used in 2019

I'm in an (older) adult Sunday School class after church at Lytham Rd UALC; we're using "Hebrews (The people's Bible)" by Richard E. Lauersdorf. I'm in an (older) adult Bible study class on Thursday mornings; we're studying Hosea with handouts from Pastor Jeff. I'm in a women's Bible Study group on Saturday morning at Lytham Rd. UALC; we're using "God of Covenant, a study of Genesis 12-50" by Jen Wilkin (Lifeway Press, 2018) and as a couple we're in a SALT (Sharing and Learning Together) group using "Making sense of the Bible; rediscovering the power of scripture today" by Adam Hamilton (Harper, 2014).

A Republic if you can Keep It

I'm loving "A republic, if you can keep it," (2019) by Justice Neil Gorsuch. In the introduction he introduces us to his roots and branches, some fascinating people. All of us should have to write a paragraph or two about parents, grandparents, great uncles, etc. and their challenges and contributions so we understand how we got here. 

Of his mother (pgs 13-14): "My mother was brilliant and a feminist before feminism. Born in Casper, Wyoming, she graduated from the University of Colorado at 19 and its law school at 22. That was a time when almost no women went to law school. She studied and taught in India as a Fulbright Scholar and went to work as the first female lawyer in the Denver District Attorney's Office. There, she helped start a program to pursue deadbeat dads who had failed to pay child support, long before efforts like that were routine. Her idea of daycare often meant me [Neil] tagging along. She never stopped moving. When she ran for the Colorado state legislature, where she was soon voted the outstanding freshman legislator, she wore out countless pairs of shoes walking the entire district again and again. As kids, we just had to keep up. Later, she served as the first female administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington."

With a mother like that, how could he be anything other than a great lawyer and judge.

Wildhood

I am offered a lot of books to review, and occasionally I accept. If you've been baffled by adolescent behavior--your pupils, your kids, your grandchildren, or even your own if you can remember that far back, this is the book that explains it, and why it's probably necessary. "Wildhood; the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals," by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers (Scribner, 2019). I'm assuming that Barbara is the scientist and Kathryn the word magician, because it's both very learned, and easy to read.

Using the lives of four animals, Ursula the penguin, Shrink the hyena, Salt a humpback whale, and Slavc a wolf (plus dozens of examples of other animal species--salmon, bats, gazelles, seals, etc.) they provide a look at everything you see in teenagers from status, to anxiety, to bullying, to risk taking, to privilege to sexual coercion. Is your son living in your basement? If animal parents were that protective, the species wouldn't survive. 

"Animals will suffer pain, forgo food, give up sex, and betray others just to ensure they've not left out or driven from a group. You might say that for social animals, status is like gravity. It's powerful and inescapable. It's invisible. It exerts an omnipresent force, and it molds how a creature moves through the world and behaves around others." p. 97

Now, doesn't that sound just like junior high school?

Me in 1954, band uniform

Two new books

I'd been carrying 2 Barnes & Noble gift cards in my purse for a year, so today I stopped in and purchased, "A Republic, if you can keep it," by Neil Gorsuch, (2019) and "Call sign Chaos" by Jim Mattis, (2019). I rarely buy books, but these looked like keepers. In fact, I think it was Hugh Hewitt who said the Mattis book would still be read 100 years from now. I doubt that, but in today's environment a few months would be good.  So I’m calling them a present to myself, even though I think I got the cards for Mother’s Day.

White Africans and Black by Caroline Singer and Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge

I bought this book in 2001 from the wonderful used book store (now closed) Acorn in Grandview because of the beautiful pencil and charcoal drawings. There are no whites in the book so I was a little puzzled by the title—the authors say it’s because all Africa was controlled by whites. Originally written in 1929 and published by The Methodist Book Deport , Cape Coast, Gold Coast,  it is extremely respectful of the beauty and culture of black Africa, but the authors comment on the presence of the Europeans and their culture throughout the book as they travel in Africa for 14 months.  There is an inscription in mine from the original owners: January 1945, Marilyn Phyllis Birch, A memento of our field of foreign service. Daddy and Mother (beautiful script).

One of the first things the authors mention is that photographs do not do justice to the shading and tone of African skin--but their drawings certainly do. The people are all beautifully drawn--very well muscled, graceful, and beautiful. They comment on relations between men and women, slavery (which had been outlawed, but still was obvious in 1929 as it is 80 years later), funeral customs, polygamy, religion, the culture of the "Creole" West Indians who had returned to Africa but weren't really African, food, bathing, language, work attitudes. The illustrator is Cyrus Baldridge, and  his wife, Caroline Singer is the writer. Her writing style is unusual. She uses almost no active verbs, lots of descriptive clauses, and sometimes word repetition, and so her writing develops sort of a calming rhythm. I would love to see something else they've written--and they did a lot of traveling,

“Quiet is the bedroom which adjoins our own, occupied by a swaggering hawk-nosed Kissi, his childlike wife and half a dozen retainers who, though slavery is by law abolished, differ racially from their employer and obey him, without servility, but still as people owned obey.  That the young man is Moslem is evidence not by robes and sandals alone—for many pagans assume this dress without derangement of their inner life—but by his pretty one’s abasement, which has a subtly meretricious quality.  She is demure.  But I think she is so designedly, not unselfconsciously as pagan women are.  It is often stated by the governing whites—despite the missionary’s protest—that any pagan, Moslemized, has made an upward step.  This child, littered with European jewelry of dubious gold, is set apart from other women here by a mincing self-consciousness, equalled only by the preciousness of half-Europeanized women of the larger coast settlements, unduly inflated by newly acquired monogamy, Charleston sandals, and coverings for their upper parts.  A favorite toy, chosen for her charms and not her usefulness, the girl, as if in fearful anticipation of the day those charms may pass, undetected from behind her husband’s back, plunges long glances into the eyes of passing men, searching for reaffirmation of their potency.”

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/cyrus-leroy-baldridge-illustrator-explorer-activist/ If I were collecting books instead of giving them away, this is an illustrator/author I would try to locate. https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/media/documents/baldridge-C.pdf A WWI illustration from “ I Was There With the Yanks In France (1920), a book of sketches by the artist Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, who had served as a war correspondent in occupied Belgium and France before America even joined the war. Baldridge later joined the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) and became the chief illustrator for the new Stars and Stripes military newspaper.”  https://library.wustl.edu/wwi-archives-dan-bartletts-books/

How to Teach English Spelling

I used to think that if you learned a few rules for the exceptions, and memorized a few words that made no sense at all, English spelling wasn't that outlandish. Then I received this book to review. The author has 52 rules and 151 lists. And by my count some of the rules have sub-rules, like rule 20 for the suffix pronounced SHUN: tion, sion, ssion, tian, cian, cion, shion, xion, sian and cean. Because my computer often corrects me, I think my spelling has become impaired. I may be looking for a teacher who will give this one a good home after I finish it.

  

John J. Fulford, How to teach English spelling, Astoria Press, 2018.  ISBN 978-09963799-2-2, 125 p. PB, $15.95
He also has a title, “The complete guide to English spelling rules” 2012.
Fulford has lived and worked in several countries and has spent his life researching and perfecting English spelling rules while he taught grades K-12 through college, adult ed and ESL.

Book Club Selection 2017-18

Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard, led by Carolyn A., September 11, 2017

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, led by Norma Bruce, October 2, 2017

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot,led by Bev, November 6, 2017

Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly, led by Justine F., December 4, 2017

January (cancelled, bad weather, Leopard at the Door)

The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan, led by Carolyn C. February 5, 2018

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer, led by Jean, March 5, 2018

Hillbilly Elegy, by J. D. Vance, led by Adrienne, April 2, 2018

Cod, by Mark Kurlansky, led by Peggy May 7, 2018 (see movie Captains Courageous)

More books headed for new owners

Maybe I should rename this blog, "Off my Bookshelves." Some of these I read three decades ago, and haven't opened since.  I've been dusting them (occasionally).  Others I've used off and on for reference.

 Christian

Willard.  The divine conspiracy
Palms.  God guides your tomorrows.  PB
Smith.  The Christian's secret of a happy life. PB
Mow.  Your child.

Luther and Lutherans--these will go to the church.

Nelson. The Lutherans in North America. rev. ed. 1980.
Winter (translator). Discourse on free will, Erasmus Luther. pb
Lull. Martin Luther's basic theological wrings. 1989. pb.
Bayer.  Martin Luther's theology, contemporary interpretation. 2008. pb [decided to keep]
Pelikan, ed. Luther's Works, vol. 27, 28, 1964.

Not sure why I saved my college textbooks, but I did occasionally open them over the years.

Textbooks, history

Stearns. Pageant of Europe; sources and selections. Rev. ed.
Gewehr. American Civilization, a history of the United States.
Ergang.  Europe from the renaissance to Waterloo.

Children's books 

Over the years, I collected some lovely children's books for when I would have grandchildren and read to them as I did my own children.  But that was not to be.   I've pulled them off the shelves and I'll see if our niece who has 8 grandchildren wants them.  My priority in children's books is always the illustrations. I love these books, will be sad to see them go, but would love to have children read and enjoy them.

Kjelgaard, Jim.  Sam Savitt illustrator.  Two dogs and a horse. 1964.  I think I bought this at a library sale. It's short stories. The author wrote many animal stories, and I remember reading them when I was a child--he seemed fond of Irish Setters. This was published after his death at 49. Sam Savitt was a well known equine artist. He did a Guide to Horses poster that perhaps I had in the Veterinary library at OSU.

Henry, Marguerite. Wesley Dennis illustrator.  Misty of Chincoteague. 1947. 1951.  I read this in 3rd grade, but didn't own it.  I did own her Born to Trot and King of the Wind, so when I saw this at a sale, I bought it. In my opinion these two are the premiere dog and pony children's book authors/illustrators.  Can't be beat. There is a foundation named for this pony.

Mortimer, Anne, story by Matthew Sturgis. Tosca's Christmas. 1989.  Usually the illustrator doesn't have top billing, but in this case, she was an artist not known for children's books but for her floral paintings. Until the end of  2014 she had a painting blog, but is now doing that on Facebook.

Pryor, Bonnie.  Illustrated by Beth Peck. The house on Maple Street. 1987. 1992.  In the 90s I was doing some fiction writing, and I attended a two day workshop for children's authors and sat in a session by this author or artist, of which I remember nothing, but did buy two of her books.  She lives in Ohio and has written about 40 books.

Pryor, Bonnie.  Mark Graham illustrator. The dream jar. 1996. Pryor's specialty is writing historical fiction for children.

Rosen, Michael J. ed. Purr. . . Children's book illustrators brag about their cats. 1996. Rosen is a writer, artist and poet originally from Columbus and as I recall, we might have him at the Columbus Museum of Art or maybe visited an art exhibit about animals and bought this book--I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.  The proceeds of this book by illustrators that he edited went to benefit an animal organization.

"Scaredy Kate is a plump calico" belonging to Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan, who says she had "her first and only litter of kittens on Father's Day, and bore them in the corner of my husband's closet surrounded by his sneakers.  We called them his Father's Day presents, and named the kittens Adidas, Nike, Converse, Etonic and Reebok."

Chorao, Kay.  The baby's bedtime book. 1984. Familiar bedtime poems and prayers--Day is done, Lullaby and good night, Minnie and Winnie, Now I lay me down to sleep--illustrated by Chorao.

Delval, Marie-Helene. Ulises Wensell illustrator. Translated from French. Reader's Digest Bible for Children; timeless stories from the Old and New Testaments. 1995.  Table of contents includes the chapter/verse citation; glossary in back. Illustrator was well known artist from Spain who died in 2011. Author is French and has written a number of Bible based books for children.

Riddles, Libby.  Shannon Cartwright illustrator. Danger the dog yard cat.  1989.  On our Alaskan cruise in 2001 we met the author who talked about the Iditarod which she won in 1985. Cartwright is both a writer and illustrator and lives in Alaska.  A customer review of her Finding Alaska, "Cartwright's art is delightful and at times very humorous. I recently heard that on the train-ride from Anchorage to Fairbanks, an announcement is made at the spot, where the train makes a stop in the middle of nowhere, when a delivery is being made for her, or when Shannon needs a ride to do her errands in the city!!"

Walsh, Vivian and J. Otto Seibold, illustrator. Olive the other reindeer. 1997.  Olive is actually a dog (a Jack Russel owned by the author) who heard the Rudolph song and thought "All of the other reindeer," was "Olive, the other reindeer," and so the story.  I think I bought it because it was about Olive.   This couple has written and illustrated a number of children's books. See Wikipedia.

McGeorge, Constance W. Mary Whyte illustrator. Boomer's big day.1994.  Snow riders. 1995.  My recollection is I met Ms. McGeorge at an authors' workshop or gathering and then bought her books at a book store. Snow Riders I thought was especially exciting because my brother and I used to make snow horses in the winter in Forreston.  I met Mary Whyte at least 10 years later and we have another one of her books, Working South, although it's not a childrens' book. She will be the judge at the fall OWS show.  I think Ms. McGeorge lived in Upper Arlington when I met her. Boomer was the first children's book for both according to the flap and Boomer was the name of Whyte's Golden Retriever. 

There's a lovely blog about the art of children's books, "The art of children's picture books," but it seems to be on vacation since August 2015.

Adoption for the Lucky few.

Are you considering adoption? Zondervan (Christian book publisher) has a new book about a delightful family with 3 children under age 5 (lively group) as told by Heather Avis, the mom, about how she and husband Josh went from grief over infertility to joy in adopting two medically fragile babies with Down syndrome and one with a mixed racial heritage. It's very well written and an easy read--but ...the problems and snags like heart surgeries and meeting with birth families are folded in. Avis, Heather. "The lucky few; finding God's best in the most unlikely places." Zondervan, 2017. ISBN 9780310345466 I don't do Instagram, but I think that's how this book was birthed as the author shared her joys and sorrows with others in similar situations. Whether yours is a step parent, international, special needs, or plain vanilla adoption, I think you'll enjoy this book.

More books off the shelves and out the door

They are all off the shelves, some on the floor, some in boxes, bags, two multi-volume titles are tied with red Christmas ribbon (couldn't find any twine), but somehow, I really don't see much freed up space on the shelves.  Some titles came off, then I started browsing and they went back!  Looking through one of the architecture magazines I see a feature on the Thorncrown Chapel (E. Fay Jones), winner of a 1981 AIA honor and which we visited in 2006.  Also, addition to Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, which we visited in 1977

Books removed February 2017

Religion/inspiration
Bewes.  The top 100 questions.  2002. PB
Tozer.  Living as a Christian, teachings from First Peter.
Guideposts. Dawnings; finding God’s light in the darkness. 1981.
Guideposts.  Tapestries of life.  1974.
Thurman.  How to think about evolution and other Bible science controversies. 2nd ed. 1978.  PB
Kreeft.  Jacob’s ladder; 10 steps to truth. 2013.  PB
Sparks.  The mind benders. 1977. PB
Eastwood.  Priesthood of all believers. 1960
Davis and Hays.  The art of reading scripture.  2003. PB
Keller.  The Bible as history in pictures. 1964.
Sire.  How to read slowly; a Christian guide to reading with the mind. 1978. PB
Murray.  Like Christ. Reprint 1974. PB
Roberts.  Praying God’s will for my marriage. 1994.
Shelly.  Church history in plain language. 1982.
Tappert. The book of Concord. 1959.
Baille. A diary of private prayer. 1949
McDowell.  Evidence for Christianity. 2006.
Misc. small paperback, (14) devotion and study. 

Biography/history/politics
Maroscher.  Why can’t somebody just die around here.  2015.  PB
Boorstin.  The discoverers; a history of man’s search to know his world and himself. 1983.
Stoll. Samuel Adams; a life.  2008. PB.
Beck.  Broke.  2010.
Beck.  Cowards. 2012.
Stein.  How the states got their shapes.
Bloom. The western canon; the books and school of the ages. 1994.

Literature/fiction/skills
Saturday Evening Post Treasury. 1954.
Smith.  The miracle at speedy motors. No. 1 Ladies detective agency.  2008
Smith. Blue shoes and happiness. No. 1 Ladies detective agency. 2006.
Harper.  Black orchid. 1996. PB
Hursh.  The final hurdle, physician’s guide. 2012.
Famous Writers Course, 4 vol. + Annual volume.
Pei.  The story of language. 1949. 1965.
Dover. Dictionary of spoken Spanish. 1958. PB
Amsco.  Spanish dictionary. 1968. PB
Nassi Levy.  Spanish first year.  Workbook.   1996  PB.
Latin and English Dictionary, 1966. PB
Repaso y composicion. 1947
Loss Brief Spanish review grammar. 1954
Cassell's Spanish dictionary.1960
Latin, an introductory course. 2nd ed. 1960. PB
Hines.  Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House in the Ozarks. 1991
Hines. I remember Laura. Laura Ingalls Wilder. 1994.

Recipes/cooking/exercise/
Lee.  Semi-homemade cooking. 2005.  PB
Favorite brand name. Easy foil recipes. 2002.
Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cooking. 12 vols. 1966.
2 exercise DVDs, Denise Austin, Mari Winsor.
Gavin. Book of pilates. 2002
Pilates for weight loss with DVD, 2011
OSU Cooperative Extension.  The wisdom of exercise. Bull. 618. PB
Taste of Home, hard cover annuals
  Light & Tasty, 2003
  Annual 1999
  Christmas 2010
  Christmas 2011


Architecture
Backyard landscaper 40 professional designs. 1992
Biegeleisen. Complete book of silk screen. 1963
Sunset. Ideas for Great kitchens.1991
Victorian dream homes.  160. 1991
BHG. Outdoor projects. 1998
Sunset.  Patio roofs and gazebos. 1988
House Beautiful. Kitchens. 1993
Richards. An introduction to modern architecture. Rev. 1953. PB
Manual of steel construction. 6th ed. 1965.
Roycraft. Industrial building details 2nd ed. 1959.
Action. Housing choices and housing constraints. 1960
Origin of the skyscraper. 1939

Magazines
2014, 2015 First Things
National Geographic.  2 issues. Oct. and Nov. 1983
Ideals country roads.v. 42, no. 6, 1985
Ideals friendship. v. 43, no. 5, 1985
New miracles of the telephone age. Nat. Geog. mag. July 1954
The Adirondacks Forever Wild. New York Geographic series, no.. 1, 1988
Inland Architect, 9 issues, 1972

Animals and Cats
Turine World. Nat. Geog. Mag. Dec. 1925
Horse identifier. field guide.1980
Horses of the world. 1923
Bast. The poetical Cat, an anthology. 1995.
Lazarus. Keep your cat healthy the natural way. 1999.
Fogle.  The cat's mind; understanding your cat's behavior. 1992.
Shojai. The Purina encyclopedia of cat care. 1998.
Myron. Dewey, the small town library cat who touched the world.  2008

Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind"--again

Each time I peruse the bookshelves to do some clearing out, my hand pauses at this best seller of 30 years ago. It was about a year ago, I looked and put it back. Looked again today.

In Alan Bloom’s book, "The Closing of the American Mind” (1987)--a book that began as an essay and became a best seller--he discusses how the meaning and acts of sex and sexuality changed between the 50s and 60s and the 80s, and that the college students he knew saw a sexual arrangement as convenient, but not lasting or a commitment. “They are roommates with sex and utilities included in the rent.” (p. 106). 

With the looming strike of women (they are angry about the election of Trump and mad at the Electoral College) and the January 21 Women’s March in DC, I think he missed his mark in thinking the “rights” push was over.  It’s not over because it's never over for the Left which needs a victim, and over 50% of the population are women and 57% of the college graduates since the 90s are women.  For the Left  no matter what progress women, homosexuals or transsexuals make, there’s always a new victim to be found which can be folded into the original goal.  The push to normalize sex with children is the most recent one, as polygamy or polyandry will just be too boring and acceptable since sex with adults has lost all meaning. Relativism, Bloom said, makes students conformist and incurious. Their supposed open-mindedness closes their actual minds. And that continues as the students of the 80s are the parents and professors of today's college students.

Bloom writes about relationships in the mid-80s: “Men and women are now used to living in exactly the same way and studying exactly the same things and having exactly the same career expectations.  No man would think of ridiculing a female premed or prelaw student, or believe that these are fields not proper for women, or assert that a woman should put family before career.  The law schools and medical schools are full of women, and their numbers are beginning to approach their proportion in the general population.  . . The battle here has been won. . . They do not need the protection of NOW (p. 107)  And he goes on to note that not only do his students have nothing to learn about sex from their parents, but also believe they have nothing to learn from old literature or history  [and I would add the Bible, but he doesn’t] so when they have problems with relationships, they have nothing to go back to.

 http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-book-that-drove-them-crazy/article/634905

Transgenda; abuse and regret in the sex-change industry

The sex-change industry is a fraud, according to Alex P. Serritella.  They are hustlers in lab coats, peddling a product that doesn't exist.  There is no such thing as a sex change, but it is a billion-dollar industry.  You're being duped if you believe this.

Q.  What is the most shocking thing you discovered in researching the book?

A: The fact that child abuse is rampant in the sex-change industry. This is not a matter of “consenting adults only”, as people are led to believe. These are drastic, life-altering treatments done on children as young as nine. It sterilizes them for life and causes permanent damage to their bodies during crucial years of growth. Are children really capable of making such a huge decision? Obviously not. They will inevitably regret it, as most of them do.

Q: It seems like the transgender population has exploded in recent years. Why is that?

A: It all goes back to the reclassification of gender identity disorder in the DSM-5. The American Psychiatric Association had originally declared transgenderism to be a mental illness in 1980. Then they did an inexplicable reversal in 2012, and stated that it is no longer a mental illness. There is no medical or scientific justification for the change. There was no new evidence or discovery on which the change was based. It was purely a decision made to serve a hidden agenda. Since gender identity disorder, now called gender dysphoria, is officially not a mental illness, it is now considered a medical condition, meaning that it is covered by most insurance plans, and is now included in most anti-discrimination policies. This is basically an invitation for people to try a sex change.

Q: How prevalent is sex-change regret?

A: A lot more than people realize. From what I’ve seen and read, the rate of regret is virtually 100%. Transitioning will only bring a short-term, superficial satisfaction that will inevitably fade away when reality sets in. These people are delusional and they are being exploited. The doctors make a fortune on sex-change treatment, then they make another fortune on reversal treatment. That’s why it’s so unconscionable to perform this treatment on children. Eventually, trans people will accept themselves for who they are. It’s unfortunate that they will have mutilated bodies by the time they do.

 These and other trans-related issues are probed in the book, Transgenda; abuse and regret in the sex-change industry, by Alex P. Serritella.    It paints a far different picture of transgenderism than the one you hear in the news.

Bookstand Publishing, 2016

ISBN 978-1-63498-355-6, $17.95