Two packages arrived in the mail yesterday.<\/p>\n
The first had Michael Moorcock’s Gloriana<\/i>, a fantasy novel about Elizabeth I’s reign. I’d seen the book, recently issued in a new edition, in Barnes & Noble a time or three but hadn’t, for whatever reason, picked up a copy. So when the Science Fiction Book Club offered a hardcover edition I sent off my reply card. It arrived yesterday.<\/p>\n
The other package was an order I’d placed through Edward R. Hamilton. I ordered five books. My package had six, and two of them I hadn’t even ordered.<\/p>\n
Star Trek: The Captain’s Blood<\/i>, by William Shatner? Check.
\nWatson’s Last Case<\/i>, by Ian Charnock? Check.
\nWhispers of the Dead<\/i>, by Peter Tremayne? Check.
\nLardner on War<\/i>, by Ring Lardner? Check.<\/p>\n
So, what’s this? The Stori of Beaded Embellishment<\/i>? It’s a book about affixing beads to hand-made quilts. I’m not a quilter. I certainly<\/i> didn’t order this. However, my mother does<\/i> make quilts, and when I sort this order out I’ll probably keep this and give it to her.<\/p>\n
But that wasn’t the fifth book I wanted. No, I wanted the companion volume to Lardner on War<\/i>, entitled Lardner on Baseball<\/i>. The former book is a collection on Ring Lardner’s writings on World War I, including two Jack Keefe novels which have been out-of-print since 1918. The latter is a collection of Ring Lardner’s writings on baseball, some Jack Keefe-related, some part of Lardner’s journalism on the sport. Suffice to say, no Lardner on Baseball<\/i> in my package.<\/p>\n
Instead, I received The Complete Encyclopedia of Golf Techniques<\/i>. I’ve no interest in golf. I’m going to find this book really<\/i> useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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