“And I Was Just Getting Over My Chester A. Arthritis!” “You Had Arthritis?”: The Book List
Preznit (sorry, had to) Chester A. was heavily mentioned in the Vowell book I just finished reading (as he took the presidency when Garfield was assassinated), so it reminded me of that classic Simpsons line from the episode where Lisa discovers that Jebediah Springfield was the pirate Hans Sprungfeld. And he didn’t tame the legendary buffalo, it was already tame, he merely shot it. Just for your enlightenment. Ahem. Onto the revised book list:
Finished:
1) The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant by Robert Hutchinson
2) Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
3) Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
4) Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
5) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6) Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Re-read:
1) Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Currently Reading:
1) Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrmanl
Waiting To Be Read (Already Purchased, Got as Gifts, Borrowed from My Boyfriend, or Otherwise Accessible without the Use of Funds, But Not an Assurance That I Will Read These Before I Buy More Books):
1) Lost for Words: Hidden History of Oxford English Dictionary by Lynda Mugglestone
2) Whose Bible Is It?: A History of the Scripture through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan
3) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
A large soul embiggens the smallest man. Or something like that.
Isn’t it a noble soul?
Or something like that. ;)
Oh yeah, it is. How could I have messed that up, with my thorough knowledge of the Simpsons? Weird.