[LMB] OT: Books per year

[PAT MATHEWS]

>From: "Michael R N Dolbear" <m.dolbear at lineone.net>
>Reply-To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [LMB] OT: Books per year
>Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:36:06 +0100
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>That was Anon's review of the telephone directory ?
>
>My grandfather read ours when visiting (he had never had a telephone, if
>wanted at the dock they would have sent a messenger) and found it of
>interest and indeed I read a French one when on holiday (instructions on
>renewing identity cards and upteen alphabetic sections, one per commune).

When I was visiting my daughter in Charlottesville, Virginia, I read the 
telephone directory one long afternoon. At least the yellow pages. I was 
truly surprised to find a Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church ... Jefferson and 
Church seem like a contradiction in terms.

It was, of course, the city's one and only Unitarian church.



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>And there are libraries (and book pushers as on this list) to add to the
>readers but not the sales.
>
>And _Bird Biology for Beginners_ which I had for several years before
>opening.
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>Little Egret
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