The Ingenious Library Thing
There are now more than 1750 books catalogued in My Library Thing with the latest additions several books by Keith Devlin, an author I have heard (on NPR) express his admiration for the author of Scientific American's Mathematical Puzzles, Martin Gardner. I loved to find the latest Scientific American to read that column when I was growing up in the 1970s. It was his column about the game "Life" that drove me to write a computer program to use the same rules to generate these bit-forms which "moved" and "reproduced." Anyway, I am not disappointed with the several books I bought by Devlin, having skimmed most of them and found his writing as equally conversational and witty as his oral repartee on the radio.
Also in the latest raft of books were many photoplay novels, a book about Art Acord who was in one movie with Theda Bara (there is a single Theda anecdote which is amusing, but otherwise no more information about Cleopatra), a book about San Simeone Castle with a picture of Theda Bara in costume as Queen Isabella next to Charlie Chaplin as Napolean, and a book about Oregon artist Ed Quigley (who did a painting of a burlesque performer in 1940s Portland, which I gave to Marisa).
Also in the latest raft of books were many photoplay novels, a book about Art Acord who was in one movie with Theda Bara (there is a single Theda anecdote which is amusing, but otherwise no more information about Cleopatra), a book about San Simeone Castle with a picture of Theda Bara in costume as Queen Isabella next to Charlie Chaplin as Napolean, and a book about Oregon artist Ed Quigley (who did a painting of a burlesque performer in 1940s Portland, which I gave to Marisa).