Yesterday, I went to Barnes and Noble to look for a new book to read on the subway. Sadly, my most frequented Barnes and Nobles will be turned into a Century 21 in the New year (think low class Loehmann's...) so they have ceased to restock. The book I was seeking was not there, so Kat and I wandered around looking at other books. I actually got a BASKET because all the books were discounted and I was getting classics fro $2-$4 - I couldn't help it! As I reached the check out with about 7 books totalling $16...I passed a display that had a HUGE gorgeous Franco Zefferelli opera/screen table book on it. (Zefferelli directed MY favorite movie version of Romeo and Juliet.) So I opened it and drooled and put it back as it was not $2. Then just below I noticed "COLONEL ROOSEVELT" by Edmund Morris with two stickers on it - "30% off" and "Autographed copy." I started totally freaking out and Kat thought I had been possessed by some crazy book demon. I couldn't explain why this was so monumental.
Back in my summer of dreams in Stratford - JLF told me to read two behemoth books about Theodore Roosevelt - "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and "Theodore Rex." He told me they were part of a triology, but the author, Edmund Morris, has stopped writing it for another writing pursuit(s) - one of which was the extremely controversial "Dutch," about Ronald Reagan. So I painstakingly read the first two, and periodically checked for the third book to come out - but soon lost hope (and perhaps interest) and totally forgot about it. Until - yesterday - at B&N. It turns out it came out November 23rd, and I apparently missed the author signing copies. That being said - I GOT an autographed copy, e-mailed JLF to tell him, and am currently reading about Teddy's post-presidential pursuits in Africa. Wooohoo!
And no one understands --- why I care...
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