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New Books
I totally made out at the Half Price Books sale today. I got a paperback dictionary--I like to have one in each room. I got a Spanish-English dictionary. I got a book of stories with Spanish on one side and English on the other. For visits to the local Hispanic eateries, I got a book on Mexican foods. And I got a book to give to someone. (And I've read half it and it looks like it might actually be good!) All for about $12.
Warning: They now have scanners at Half Price (the one I go to anyway). And if they scan a clearance book, you won't get the clearance price. But they also have a little screen so you can follow along. I suggest you do.
Robin got a book from the 1880s that tells a story via (fake) documents, each of which are pasted into the pages of the book. These were popular at the time. This one starts with an announcement from a newspaper about someone. It has love letters and other letters and other newspaper clippings. The ones Robin's read before didn't have the greatest plots, but this one was so beautiful he couldn't resist. Hint: if you make one of these, make the handwriting beautiful and, of course, legible. Haven't read it yet.
I was going to do something like this for my final project in the Parageography class I was auditing. Parageography is a word the professor coined (the study of places that don't exist) so he could have an excuse to teach this class. It is offered through the Classics department. One-third of the class involves studying classics set in places which may or may not exist, such as The Odyssey. One third involves modern books such as an Oz book and a Narnia book. And the rest was about you creating your own worlds. This classes had a substantial writing component (students need two of these) and was popular with gamers.
The professor was not a fan of narrative at all. So my final project, where you create a world of your own and create "artifacts" to turn in for your grade, was going to be a bunch of newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries, and the like that would end up telling a story. But I got tied up trying to make my world realistic. To help me, I studied astronomy, geography, biology (morphology and biochemistry), world history, sociology--let's just say it got completely out of hand and I never finished. I always thought I would finish it one day and hand it in to the professor, but it's been a decade and I still haven't.
I never thought of making it look like a giant scrapbook with these things cut out and pasted to it. That would have been cool and also closer to the intent of the assignment. I would have just had something that looked more like just a research paper. But with a scrapbook, you get an additional story, the story of the person creating the scrapbook. I wonder if Robin's book has such a story. I should go read that. But it's late.
Warning: They now have scanners at Half Price (the one I go to anyway). And if they scan a clearance book, you won't get the clearance price. But they also have a little screen so you can follow along. I suggest you do.
Robin got a book from the 1880s that tells a story via (fake) documents, each of which are pasted into the pages of the book. These were popular at the time. This one starts with an announcement from a newspaper about someone. It has love letters and other letters and other newspaper clippings. The ones Robin's read before didn't have the greatest plots, but this one was so beautiful he couldn't resist. Hint: if you make one of these, make the handwriting beautiful and, of course, legible. Haven't read it yet.
I was going to do something like this for my final project in the Parageography class I was auditing. Parageography is a word the professor coined (the study of places that don't exist) so he could have an excuse to teach this class. It is offered through the Classics department. One-third of the class involves studying classics set in places which may or may not exist, such as The Odyssey. One third involves modern books such as an Oz book and a Narnia book. And the rest was about you creating your own worlds. This classes had a substantial writing component (students need two of these) and was popular with gamers.
The professor was not a fan of narrative at all. So my final project, where you create a world of your own and create "artifacts" to turn in for your grade, was going to be a bunch of newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries, and the like that would end up telling a story. But I got tied up trying to make my world realistic. To help me, I studied astronomy, geography, biology (morphology and biochemistry), world history, sociology--let's just say it got completely out of hand and I never finished. I always thought I would finish it one day and hand it in to the professor, but it's been a decade and I still haven't.
I never thought of making it look like a giant scrapbook with these things cut out and pasted to it. That would have been cool and also closer to the intent of the assignment. I would have just had something that looked more like just a research paper. But with a scrapbook, you get an additional story, the story of the person creating the scrapbook. I wonder if Robin's book has such a story. I should go read that. But it's late.