It's been a long day, starting with the roofers showing up at 7 AM and banging away and ending with a delicious birthday dinner followed by lemon meringue pie and the opening of presents, so before I toddle off to bed I will just list books I was given and trust that the LH readership can guess why each of them is particularly appropriate to the recipient. I will doubtless be posting about most of them individually as I make my way through them.
Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
Krazy & Ignatz 1939-1940: "A Brick Stuffed with Moom-bins"
The Stalin Epigram: A Novel
Unforgiving Years
When Russia Learned to Read : Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917
The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times
Good thing I'm a fast reader.
Posted by languagehat at July 1, 2009 09:48 PMHappy birthday, Language.
Posted by: AJP Crown at July 1, 2009 10:14 PMHB, LH!
Posted by: read at July 1, 2009 10:47 PMDr Mugglestone is a cartoon character, surely?
Posted by: agnes at July 1, 2009 11:18 PMHappy birthday, and many happy returns!
Posted by: Yuval at July 2, 2009 12:41 AMHappy, uh, twenty-ninth again, I presume.
Posted by: Nijma at July 2, 2009 01:47 AMHappy belated birthday!
Posted by: Laura Brown at July 2, 2009 01:59 AMBest wishes as always, LH.
Posted by: Noetica at July 2, 2009 03:57 AMHappy Birthday, LH!
Posted by: Trey at July 2, 2009 08:34 AMHappy birthday, LH. Thanks for the party that you host here day after day.
Posted by: nafahthi at July 2, 2009 08:36 AMAh, a kat enthusiast. I happen to be one of the lucky few who bought the Turtle Island/Eclipse series of kat comics spanning 1916-1924-- the Fantagraphics series picks up from there and goes to 1943.
The Eclipse series started out with the title "The Komplete Kat Komics" and was meant to be comprehensive-- but the company succumbed to what appeared to be a publishing Kurse of Krazy and went out of business. But with Fantagraphics recently issuing a reprint of the final 1943 volume, all of the Krazy full-page comics have now been reprinted. My understanding is that Fantagraphics will do the right thing and republish the early stuff in one volume-- so Herriman, at long last, is accessible in one place.
Posted by: MattF at July 2, 2009 08:40 AMС днём рождения and happy birthday! I second nafahthi's thanks and wish you happy reading. I hope the roofers have either finished the job or worked quietly this morning!
Posted by: Lisa at July 2, 2009 09:29 AMyesterday i was to link to the article in oreg/nlive.com about Mercy corps and their rally and the opposition to them of some equine explorers
and say that they are not welcome and can have their safe and sanitary adventures elsewhere
then i thought i shouldn't spoil people's birthdays complaining and the site seemed banned here too
http://www.oreg_nlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/06/mercy_corps_mongolian_horse_ra.html
Ah, now I see... The state below Washington, when 'live', is "questionable content", which must be why read put a slash through it. So in the url put in the O in the middle of that state's name.
Posted by: AJP Crown at July 2, 2009 10:48 AMС днём рождения! No hats? No music?
Posted by: vanya at July 2, 2009 11:13 AMI hope the roofers have either finished the job or worked quietly this morning!
The job is far from finished, but it's raining today, which means they didn't show up and we were able to sleep in, which was nice.
Posted by: language hat at July 2, 2009 11:32 AMi meant the Mercy corps are welcome they are doing charity and some good hopefully and the article is okay, was surprised it is banned
about the equine explorers guild i wanted to say that we don't want them for any covrijki and please don't leave their usual derbys
Read are you in Oregon?
I saw that article too. It was very odd. I thought it was pretty clear that it was trip only for the adventurous.
My nephew did an off-road trip in Mongolia a few years ago and loved it. He saw the Gobi desert in the spring when it's just coming to life. It didn't look like a desert at all -- in fact some geographers call it a half-desert (where camels can survive, but not horses).
Posted by: John Emerson at July 2, 2009 01:17 PMno, i'm not in Oregon, just found the article thanks to my Mongolia related media monitoring activities :)
bubonic plague! very scary, yeah, really, and one can't go without GPSs and call it adventure
in August i'll be in Khentii for a week though
Cheers! and more wonderful birthdays to come...
Posted by: Cornelia Cunningham at July 3, 2009 12:54 AMHappy birthday, Hat! Some of your new books are on my shelves, so will be curious to hear your comments. Meanwhile, keep celebrating.
Posted by: mab at July 3, 2009 11:35 AMHappy ever so belated birthday.
I'm an ever increasingly slow reader. Quite annoying, really.
Posted by: Sili at July 4, 2009 11:04 AMHappy birthday.
Posted by: JCass at July 4, 2009 11:44 AM