6: The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, Karen Elizabeth Gordon

The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed. Have had this lying around for years, and I've read bits and pieces of it before, but I battled my way through it cover-to-cover for the first time now. Gordon is funny in an obnoxiously erudite manner.

Can I remember any of it? No, probably not consciously, but hopefully some of it stuck somewhere, and the next grammar book I pick up will be more intuitive reading.


Disaster on the book acquisition front:

The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Karen Elizabeth Gordon

The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction, Christopher Tyerman

The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction, Julian D. Richards

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Ian Shaw ed.—at least I can claim this is for an Egyptology class I want to audit this trimester.

Sources of World History, Volume II, Mark A. Kishlansky, ed. Kinda silly: a collection of sources for use in high school (?) history courses. I was mainly curious about Gempaku Sugita's "Anatomy Lesson", an account of his, and thereby Japan's, discovery of Western (Dutch) anatomy at the beginning of the 19th century. Sugita was mentioned in a book on decipherments for his efforts in learning Dutch from an anatomy book. (I cannot find the reference again; it does not appear to be in Maurice Pope's The Story of Decipherment—what else have I been reading lately?)

Introducing Kant, Christopher Want and Andrzej Klimowski. I don't know why I keep buying these, since they're really not that great. But it was $6 at Kepler's, and I was bored. (Of course I was bored...I didn't have anything to read, after all.)

Read: 6
Acquired: a sickening 13