Pink Floyd and Hilaire Belloc
Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd liked Belloc's famous children's book
[http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/07/barrett-and-belloc.html].
Books
ISI
The Tory Anarchist offers a great overview of the new ISI catalogue
[http://toryanarchist.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/cataloging/]. At least it sounds
great. I haven't received my copy of the catalogue yet, which is odd since
they're one of this blog's sponsors.
Brews You Can Use III
Also via A Good Beer Blog: Essential Reference of Domestic Brewers and Their
Bottled Brands [http://www.essential-reference.com/]. AGBB gives it a good
review [http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2006/may/bookreviewthe1]. Excerpt:
> For the beer geek like me, the DBBB can be used in one or two
Senior List
Remember my post earlier this week about monks in eastern Oklahoma (actually, it
wasn't a post, as much as a link to a Chesterton and Friends post
[http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-gilbert-is-here.html]
about the monks). Anyway, the post mentions John Senior, the University of
Kansas
Brews You Can Use IV
For my transcendentalist, beer-drinking readers. You can't judge a book by its
cover, but this cover is beautiful:
Amazon link [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1584654694/thedailyeudem-20]
.
And speaking of regional beer news, readers in the tri-state area of Ohio,
Kentucky, and Indiana will be glad
History Primer
A reader notifies me that Diane Moczar has just published two books that
introduce readers to Catholic history. Moczar is good. I've read her history
columns in Latin Mass. If you go to this link
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933184159/thedailyeudem-20], then click
on the
Manly Pages
I received Harvey Mansfield's Manliness
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300106645/thedailyeudem-20] on Friday.
It's pretty good so far. It prompted me to go through my study and pull out ten
manly books.
The glared-out one is A'Kempis' On the Passion
TAC
The new American Conservative [http://www.amconmag.com/] arrived today. It looks
like a good one (note: no links to the articles are available yet):
A review of The Brothers Bulger
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446576514/thedailyeudem-20]. For me,
it's a great example of how
Sobering the Drunk
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit
in a library."
From The Great Gatsby, Chapter III.
For my drunken readers, I present this shot of the northwest corner of my study:
Too bad the quality
Bibliomaniacs
The Washington Post ran a piece recently that speaks to me
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032200557.html?nav%3Dmost_emailed&sub=AR]
:
> Books, it turns out, inflame a particular kind of passion. They inform, they
amuse, they provoke. They keep us company