Time to stop waiting
Today is the last day to order from Amazon with two-day shipping and still get it in time for you to toss a Santa label on it and put it under the tree. So if you want to give someone, say, the first box set of the paperback Complete Peanuts, …
The bookshelves get a little heavier
Three more items were added to the AAUGH.com Reference Library today, none of them at all large, but still, the bookshelves are filled and droopy. The more important one to me is one I’ve been seeking for years. It’s Your Town, Charlie Brown is an auction catalog/souvenir book for the statues …
Everything I Need to Know has This Cover
Here’s the cover for the new edition of Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Peanuts. I suspect they may capitalize “know” before they release the book. I sure hope they do; I’m a stickler for title case. Preorder now, and it should ship to you in March.
Time is fleeting
Just a reminder that the days when you can order stuff and get it delivered by Christmas are quickly running out (just 2 days left to do it with the Free Super Saver Shipping). And if you’ve not thought of anything: the complete Dick Van Dyke Show is on Blu-ray …
Friends Forever are coming
Shipping in September from Ballantine Books is Friends Forever, which they say little about, but given the other things they’re offering, it’s probably a themed strip collection.
Great book deal EXTENDED
EEEP! I just found out about this at the last minute – well, last few hours, this deal expires at midnight Pacific time Monday, so I apologize if you don’t read this until it’s too late. Amazon is giving 25% off of any one book, maximum savings $10; just enter …
Charlie Brown’s Stocking staging
The St. Augustine (Florida) Record reports that the Shores United Methodist Church will host the Children’s Express Theater performing “Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking” on Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. (via Religion notes for Dec. 12 | StAugustine.com.) I wonder whether they’re somehow adapting the story that originally ran in the December 1963 Good Housekeeping …
Recommended Peanuts book gifts
So, you want to get someone a Peanuts book present, but am not sure what? Here are my suggestions. The “I really want to impress you with a large, expensive, impressive gift” gift: Peanuts: Artist’s Edition, an amazing, seriously oversized book reproducing Peanuts from the original art The “You think you like Peanuts, …
a Schulz variant some got by Providence
If you’re a Schulz book collector who likes to get not only all the books, but every possible variant (not a path I recommend; that way lies madness!), you might want to get in touch with bridge-playing pals from the Northeast. Yesterday was the last day of the 2014 Fall …