spit spot ~

[lookingland]

possibly two of the most obscure books in my 50bookchallenge:

no. 14 ~ History of Dentistry in Pennsylvania, 1868-1968 by isaac sissman. this book has some inneresting stuff about 19th century dentistry, but overall is too broad and too unparticular for my interests (if that's possible). it mostly focuses on the Pennsylvania State Dental Association, which isn't too useful to me. oddly enough, i found more relevent information on the training of 19th century dentists in a biography of Doc Holliday (who received his D.D.S. from the dental school i'm interested in). this had a few good tidbits, though, so not a total loss.

no. 15 ~ The Other Side of the Mountain by michel bernanos. sometimes, just cruising the aisles in the library, i randomly pick a book off the shelf. this is a little french book that tells the incredibly bizarre story of a man who gets semi-shanghaied onto a ship that subsequently suffers a mutiny after being becalmed for nearly 60 days. the crew eats the captain and several other sailors, then a storm finally blows everyone else overboard, and two men (the ship's cook and the narrator) float for days before finally finding land. then the island's fauna tries to eat them and eventually they are turned to clay.

yeah. k.
in writing: lotta little books. the challenge is on.

Comments

[rabiagale.livejournal.com]

*giggle* about no. 15.

You do have odd reading tastes. :D

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

that one was a total accident, i swear.

hahahahaha ~

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[rabiagale.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Out of curiosity, what do you do for work?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

what do you mean? at the library?

i work in periodicals ~ i'm in charge of the main campus electronic reserves.

~ and wander through the stacks aimlessly while on break.

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[rabiagale.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun! My very first job was a library job at my college. Two years as the mail-clerk assitant (you didn't want to get between me wielding a utility knife and a box of books!) and two years in serials binding (I didn't do any binding, just picked up, prcoessed, packed and unpacked stuff sent elsewhere to be bound).

I spent many long hours in the stacks, collecting musty old almost-forgotten periodicals. :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

ahhhh, how fond those memories must be ~ !

nothing quite like working in the library (though i think my head may explode at any moment some days).

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um ...

[(Anonymous)]

those books are too small---even with new glasses.

I'm jest saying ...

:-D

Re: um ...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

maybe i'll make mine not quite so little!

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[daregale.livejournal.com]

I love the little books!

Bernanos. . . any relation to the one who wrote Diary of a Country Priest?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

none whatsoever.

though it was on the shelf next to georges.

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[sparowe]

Number 15. Um. Wow.