Today, as of 12:04 PM, I
became officially 59 years old. I had already had a wonderful birthday party
(observed) yesterday, as Sunday was a good day when the local family could get together,
and we had a very enjoyable kind of continuance on this, the actual day. Among
other nice things that happened, Kelsey took me by the library bookstore, where
I picked up these two volumes.
The first is Norwegian
Folk Tales, by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe, one of the
reprints of classic volumes by The Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library.
There are illustrations by the great Theodor Kittelsen, as well as by Erik Werenskiold.
It will go well with my other Pantheon collections of tales.
The second is Theodore
Rex, by Edmund Morris, the second book in a trilogy about Theodore
Roosevelt, which covers the years he was President. I had recently heard good
things about these books, especially the first one, the Pulitzer prize-winning The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. The
third book, Colonel Roosevelt, follows the post-White House years to his
death. For $3, I thought this was a good place to start, and the Universe
seemed to be suggesting it.
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