Again this week, there weren't a lot of book boxes to unpack, so I put out a lot of what was there, and then had fun filling up two display racks with everything I could find about hearts and love. How to love your spouse, how to love your kids, God's love...and Maeve Binchy's
Heart and Soul. Something for everyone.
Last week's funniest title (that I forgot to post here) was
How to Get Rid of a Telemarketer. Since it was published in 1996, I think it could use some updating...cordless phones have ended the plausibility of your large, barking dog suddenly chewing through the phone cord. But there were one or two still-current ideas I might try next time somebody offers to clean my ducts or offers me a free cruise.
Here's what came home today:
Vintage copy of
Great Books as Life-Teachers, by
Newell Dwight Hillis. "Leaving to others the problems of literary criticism, these studies emphasize the importance of right thinking in order to right conduct and character, and the uses of great books as aids and incentives to the higher Christian life." Hillis was, according to the Wikipedia entry, a supporter of eugenics and definitely somewhat controversial...but the book looks interesting.
Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology, by Ricard Solé and Brian Goodwin
Praise, prayer & worship; 70 Songs of John Michael Talbot.
Hold On To Your Kids, by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté
2 comments:
I figure I'm being "nice" to telemarketers by not wasting their time when I have no intention of being drawn in by the sales pitch. When we lived in the US, we'd say (speaking right through the telemarketer if necessary) "We never make purchases from unsolicited callers." And hang up. We've been free from telemarketers for years here in Europe, but no longer. They have arrived. They usually get an much more abrupt "not interested". I'm not sure how to say "unsolicited"....
In Canada for awhile you could say "We are on the national do-not-call list. Please inform your supervisor that you are not legally allowed to call us." I don't think it did a lot of good, really, and I think the list was eventually scrapped and we've been getting more unsolicited calls than ever, no matter how politely (or not politely) we just say NO. Maybe one of these days I really will try barking like a dog...
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