I’ve got a few new additions to the collection this month, thanks to the Library of Congress used booksale (oh, don’t worry, they’re not selling off the collections, staff donate books and the sales go to charities), and a visit to the DC Big Flea at Dulles Expo Center (lots of browsing yielded only two […]
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Sears Discovery Charm School – ring any bells?
Kelly, a fan of this site, wrote recently with a question about a book from her childhood that she’s been desperately looking for –The Sears Make the Most of You Discovery Book (described a bit but without working links here. It was from a charm school that Sears ran back in the early 1970s; Kelly […]
Evelyn Millis Duvall
As you probably are aware, the first book I ever collected in this genre is called the Art of Dating, written by Evelyn Millis Duvall. So needless to say, this book and author are pretty important to Miss Abigail. Well, I got a nice surprise this week. Duvall’s grandson was doing some searches on her […]
Flickr Fun
This set of scans of a 1960 home economics book are fun… The flickr user that posted them (Millie Motts) has got a great little collection. Have a look-see of her other sets here. Thanks Millie, whoever you are! I plan on spending a lot of time browsing…
Bad, Bad Blogger!
I’ve been back from Norway for some time now, but you’d never know it by this blog. Oh well, life just gets in the way of the Internet sometimes. Just before traveling I picked up some new books at The Book Thing in Baltimore, I’m in the process of adding them to my LibraryThing catalog. […]
Hello from Norway
I’m in Norway this week, of all places, for work! I’m currently in Mo I Rana, just south of the Arctic Circle, after a few days in Oslo. There’s a branch of the National Library of Norway here, and the steering committee of the International Internet Preservation Consortium is meeting here, and I’m involved in […]
Sad news
I just learned that one of my all-time favorite used bookstores, Ace Books and Antiques, is about to close. Unfortunately it’s about an hour and a half away and I don’t think I can get there before they go out of business. My mom and stepdad called me from Culpeper this morning after seeing a […]
Love in the Age of Texting
In cased you missed it, there was a fun article in the opinion section of the Washington Post this weekend called Rule of Thumbs: Love in the Age of Texting. My next post will have some advice from a time when our ancestors would have reached for the pen, instead of the keyboard or cell […]
Handbuch für Verliebte
I’ve just received word that Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage will be published by Lübbe in the summer of 2008. I knew the German rights had been sold but hadn’t heard anything specific until now. I’m very excited! The title for their edition will be Handbuch für Verliebte, which translates as Manual […]
UMass Dartmouth Alumni Magazine writeup
A feature about me and the collection and site and book appeared in the Spring 2007 edition of the UMass Dartmouth alumni magazine. I did the interview back in January I think. The magazine came out in June, and their Web site recently posted it online. UMass Dartmouth used to be called Southeastern Massachusetts University, […]