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[CajunFun]

Good Night Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown. My 2 yr Grandson loves it, great illustration.

Z

When my daughter was young, we went to NY, and the Public Library had an exhibit on children's books. It was brilliant.

Check this out.

[CajunFun]

I was once in a library in Baton Rouge that shall remain nameless, and I asked the Librarian where the card catalog was, and she said “I don’t know what that is”

When we were living in Spain, I would go to the library to work. They had an old card catalog tucked off to the side, and by chance I opened it to a random location. The first card I saw was Toole's Confederacy of Dunces.

There was also a little book kiosk in one of the parks near us, only opened up a few hours a week. But among other books, stacked against the window was La conjura de los necios. Same book, in Spanish.

[CajunFun]

Speaking of books….

Does the UL library still allow members of the Alumni Association the right to check out books even if not a student?

Not a lot of people ask, but I think it's still possible. When I first tried it, it took awhile but I finally succeeded.

I use the library for my research. I got a faculty member to sponsor me, so I also have Internet access (sort of... you now need a VPN to access the e-collections off campus). But I have to renew for that every year.

[JMV JustMyView]

Jim Ross...BUSINESS IS ABOUT TO PICKUP!

[CajunFun]

Has anyone ever heard of this book and know if it came out or when will it be coming out?
Frenchie by Jason Theriot

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/ab...on-theriot-phd

An interesting note on that, something some of you already know. The reason the Cajuns were such great assets wasn't just because they were fluent in French.

It's also because, even though they were three-and-a-half centuries removed from the Anjou and Poitou regions of France, with very minimal training (e.g., if I remember correctly, the Cajuns say barre la porte, literally 'bar the door,' but the French in that area say barre à clé 'bar it with a key', the result of newer technologies), they could drop them in the middle of those two départements and the locals couldn't tell they were American.

For those of you who dabble in languages, that is really weird. The languages should have begun diverging, but they didn't.

[NOCajun]

Just finished "Hillbilly Elegy" by Congressman J.D. Vance. A pretty gripping story of a kid born into a poor, country family who worked his way out of it into Ohio State University and then Yale Law School. A real American Dream story.

[Turbine]

For those of you who dabble in languages, that is really weird. The languages should have begun diverging, but they didn't.

You would expect a divergence on par with the divergence we see since the King James Bible till now. 1612

Since the Cajuns left France. 1604.

I'm going pick up some bouidin at the "shambles."

[CajunFun]

Just finished "Hillbilly Elegy" by Congressman J.D. Vance. A pretty gripping story of a kid born into a poor, country family who worked his way out of it into Ohio State University and then Yale Law School. A real American Dream story.

For a book with a similar story line, check out Rick Bragg's All Over but the Shoutin'. Man, can he write; there are just stunning passages throughout (including a heart-breaking story he filed from New Orleans, an interview with the mother of a child who had died from a stray bullet in a gunfight).

There's a reason he won a Pulitzer. Great read.

[beavis11]

Brian Shannon's Maximizing Trading Gains with Anchored Vwap - a real barn burner I tell ya

[Boomer]

Just finished "Hillbilly Elegy" by Congressman J.D. Vance. A pretty gripping story of a kid born into a poor, country family who worked his way out of it into Ohio State University and then Yale Law School. A real American Dream story.

….Our next VP is a Hillbilly…..lot better than our present smiley

[Big Tyme]

PS: I just finished Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon. It was one of several nuclear apocalypse books that came out about 1960, which also include Neville Shute's On the Beach, and Eugen Burdick's Failsafe; all three were best-sellers, and subsequently made into movies. After reading them, I have wondered how much of the protests of the '60's and '70's were a reaction to the stark, dark future kids were facing at that time.

Babylon was fascinating because there is not a lot of action (a great ambush shootout late in the book), but he keeps your interest up. A really good read, there's a reason it's considered a classic.

One Second After is in this same vein. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nav_sb_ss_1_16
Alas, Babylon is probably the standard bearer for this genre IMO

[Clutch0364]

One Second After is in this same vein. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nav_sb_ss_1_16
Alas, Babylon is probably the standard bearer for this genre IMO

I’m enjoying working through that series. Not the best by any means but I like the post apocalyptic world building.