In honor of Book Lover’s Day (Observed) and a November bloggy giveaway idea I stole , I am giving away a book I love. Leave a comment on this post any time from now until November 30th and you could win my copy of For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by Donald T. Regan, with my underlined passages of what I thought justified USA Today’s front cover review of this book, “Spicy!” This book is also autographed. By me.
If for some reason you don’t want Regan’s book (like who needs two copies) you could choose another book that I love, The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten by Jeffrey Kacirk. From this book you can learn that a “glee-dream” isn’t just a nightmare about living at a musical high school. If the reviewers of Regan’s book had had a copy, that book would have a much more interesting front cover. I didn’t write in or underline anything in this book, but on the other hand, it will teach you NOTHING about the Gipper.
Book Lover’s Day is tomorrow, but like refrigerator cleaning and donuts, books deserve more than one holiday.
I like Gretchen‘s suggestion, so if you want to, leave your favorite word in a comment. If you want the Regan book, be sure to include an exclamation point.
If we pick the Word book, will you sign that one too?
I'll sign it and highlight my favorite word.
Count me in! Do I have to do anything like tell you my favorite word? 'Cause it's diaphanous.
That is an excellent idea. One I like from the Word Museum is begrumpled or displeased.I can see myself marinating a chicken in that.
Both books sound good to me!!!!! I love words. One of my favorites is kibitz.
Fun thing I just learned that is more Reagan than Regan:Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis appeared together in the 1958 TV Episode "A Turkey for the President". Ahem.
Since you mentioned it, I have been searching all over for a video of it, but unfortunately it seems like GE hasn't yet released a DVD of their old programs. Archive.org and Youtube are no help.I just realized that both Jack Donaghy and Ronald Reagan worked for GE, a happy little connection for my favorite moment from that Reaganing episode of 30 Rock.
Turns out there is a DVD, hooray Netflix!
Khaki. Since I find Mr. Burns' archaic language to be the funniest part of "The Simpsons", I have to go with the word book. (Though the Donald Regan book sounds great, too, and my inner Alex P. Keaton would dig that one.)Fun fact: I was Ronald Reagan for Halloween in 6th grade.