Recent obsession: books

It all started a year ago when I first purchased a book called 'Classy' by Derek Blasberg. This book basically defined my life, plus it was hilarious.

We were at the downtown bookstore on 13th and Jackson several months ago, and my friends came across The Good Citizens Handbook. This book was written in the 40's but reprinted in the last few years. The book is extremely comical explaining citizen tasks such as: how to be a good, clean neighbor and to how to make the proper checkmark in a ballot box.

After my purchase of The Good Citizens Handbook, I found other books written in the 30's and 40's also reprinted in recent years. I cannot get over the fact that these books were at one point in time taken seriously and in today's world are outrageous and provide quite a few giggles. A few of the titles are: How To Get Along With Boys, How to Date, How to make Love, and How To Be A Good Housewife.

My most recent purchase was Someone Had To Set A Bad Example by Anne Taintor which consists of old fashioned photographs with funny sayings attached to them.

Coming Soon: I'm currently in the process of building a special bookshelf for these treasures.