1. My book as available for sale! That is, you can’t actually *have* the book, but you can pay for it. So I guess it’s not so much a sale, yet, as a series of financial transactions straight out of 2nd 3rd year financial accounting, which is the year when nothing is ever just bought and sold, but always, always, passes through a whole series of special accounts that make perfect sense, I promise, if you can just keep ’em lined up right.
I think sometime this summer it graduates to an Accounting 101 exercise, where you can just pay money and have a book, done.
2. My favorite review-book supplier, MTF, seems to feel I need to get into the Year of Faith thing in a serious way. I broke down when I realized that there was no way I could ever remember on page 962 of Introduction to Catholicism for Adults exactly how I’d felt about Chapter 1, no matter how many little notes I penciled into the back inside cover. So I’m reviewing it a chapter (or so) at a time, over at the Happy Catholic Bookshelf. Chapter 1 is up. Hint: So far, so good.
3. Also in my candy box, as I mentioned before, was the 7th Edition of their Daily Roman Missal. I broke Lisa M.’s blog by posting about three-posts-in-one, but my review is up. With some notes on how you actually use such a thing for teaching kids. I don’t think the book fairy knew that I am the kind of catechist who reads from this exact book during class, but you had probably guessed that about me a while ago.
4. The post you really want to read at AC this week is this one.
5. I’m trying to improve my Spanish, which is more difficult if you don’t have cable TV. So I’ve resorted to mining the Spanish-language section of my local Catholic bookstore. I think you could make a sort of Catechist Spanish Language Evaluation test that grades you by which sections of El Youcat you can read, and which ones leave you absolutely puzzled. To give you an idea of my junior-linguist credentials, the bold print on Youcat #374 is no trouble at all. In contrast, that Blaise Pascal quote on the sidebar of p. 191? No comprendo. (I’m okay with that. I don’t think I much understand Pascal in English, either.)
6. I wish all catechisms came with flip-book animation on the bottom right corner. Sometimes I just watch the guy doing cartwheels in Spanish.
7. What I want to do is phone my Spanish-speaking catechist friend and arrange a play date for tomorrow. What I should do is start on my taxes. I think?
Is ya book gonna be in regula brick’n’morta Cat’lic stoahz?
Yep. Unless there’s a special vortex just for my book, in which all the other titles in the series show up in stores, but not mine :-). [It’s being issued as part of their “handbooks for catechists” series (or something like that, I might have bungled the name). I have one of the titles that was given out at a catechist day some years ago, and saw one of the newer ones at our local Catholic bookstore recently. I was very very happy to go with Liguori specifically because they offer a lot of value for the dollar with their titles like that. There should be a decent bulk discount for parish purchases too, I’m told, though I don’t know the details.
Re item 4, someone should go there and leave, like, a comment.
I hit the +1 button. I think. That was my big contribution :-).