The biggest Sunday newspaper nearby has a "Books" section: it's the back page of the paper with the "cont." parts taking up about 1/3 of another page. There is a paragraph with a book jacket picture in miniature at the top; an author interview in the middle of the page the last few weeks, and two smaller book reviews, one of which is really a(nother) celebrity interview this week from a news service (McClatchy.) That's it.
What does your paper run on Sundays?

Calvin and Hobbes still rank very high--here's your daily strip if you need a hit--and there's a book: Calvin and Hobbes, Sunday Pages 1985-1995 by Bill Watterson. There's some essays, including by Watterson, but really get a look at this for the colored cartoons--Calvin and Hobbes ride again in mischievous, shining color.

by jazz pianist Kenny Werner.

Subtitled: Liberating the Master Musician Within.

Although this book is ostensibly about playing music, it is really about doing anything well. Kenny Werner knows about all the traps that people in creative fields (and I include my own field of mathematics here) fall into, and writes about how to get past the fear which often holds us back. Fear of sounding bad, fear that we are not as "good" as someone else, fear of believing in ourselves. There is much very practical information here, while Werner also addresses the spirit.

A wonderful aid in remedying "stuckness" in whatever it is you want to master.

Chinua Achebe had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: "The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger."
The title used? "Things Fall Apart."
One of its most famous lines? "Proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

here for the poem above:
http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/
here for literature on-line:
http://www.online-literature.com
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
The last one, Project Gutenberg (love the name!), has over 25,000 books and access to many more articles, etc. These are free books that you can read on-line or download; many of them are classics that are no longer copyrighted. It is a huge resource of common knowledge--and very useful when suddenly having to read a classic!--either for a class, a classical reference or a bedtime story. There are lesser known works by various authors as well, and reading here and there provides historical snapshots, for example, of empoverished times, particularly in England (Dickens, Nesbit, etc.)

"Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automo-
biles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?"

from A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsburg
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMI...

Especially if you know Whitman's work, it is nice just mulling over this poem and thinking about how we are haunted by that writing that captures our imagination...

Tools and
Electricity

and house repair. Other similar books can be had on medicine, boating, boat building and repair, and a variety of other topics.

These are worth having, even if you don't consider the source politically correct, because they are written and illustrated to teach people totally unfamiliar with the trades involved how not just to survive in the trades but thrive -- and what the best techniques are for durability and repairability of the results, which is important in today's economic climate.

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0

1 John 4:18

I read it in grade school, and all I can remember are the last two lines:

"And children dream, as still they do
Remembering what they never knew."

It was about, if I recall correctly, a home / castle /idyll.

I have tried Teh Google repeatedly, to no avail. The series of readers we used in my school was "Caravans," but I can not find the specific volume. I think this was a 5th grade book, but I read it in 3d grade (I had a teacher who helped me sneak out books over school holidays. If they did that now, they'd be fired if not sent to jail!).

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18

http://www.nurseryrhymesonline.com/autho...
I had a book of these poems by Robert Louis Stevenson as a child; it was great.
But I don't see your line here, do you?
I'll go look somewhere else, be back...

Looks like it!
Is that it, Sarah?
Would you post the whole thing?

I followed one of the links and found this in "My School Days" by E. Nesbit too, which reminded me of why dogs are so great:

"We had gauged the possibilities of the lofts correctly. With trusses of hay or straw, a magnificent fort could be made. I usually held the fort when the boys had built it, and the weakness of the garrison was lessened by the introduction of the two dogs, who defended it with me nobly, understanding perfectly the parts they had to play."

but the bit about knights seems right!

Can you find the author's name out for me?

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
That book I can borrow through interlibrary loan tomorrow!

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18

My SO is ill today. Since I no longer work for the university, I probably won't be able to leave the building with the book, but perhaps I'll be able to copy the poem into a notebook. I mean to find out!

If this works, I'm going to come back and ask y'all for help finding a song...

We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18

Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking

Lots of photos, step-by-step instruction, and a tone that says of course you can do what Tage Frid can do and just as well, if you apply yourself, work patiently, and respect the tools and the material.

And with no modesty at all:

Five Essential Steps in Digital Video: A DV Moviemaker's Tricks of the Trade

Some of it is a bit dated, though the concepts are still solid and the writing is good. Over 800 pages and weighs a hair over three pounds. If I had had more time, it would have been shorter.