Here's a fun book of trivia and (maybe) little known facts. There are several in the series, but this time the subject is music: The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales From Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy, by Rick Beyer. A favorite song of the south, for example, was actually with by a Northerner! Something then new saved a breakfast cereal (it was singing commercials). "Do, re, mi" is older than you think!

Is Arthur Fiedler the reason we hear the 1812 Overture (or at least part of it) around the 4th of July? Could be! And just how did a local (Tacoma) orchestra provide the cannon sounds for an indoor concert on a low budget? Who Knew?: Answers to Questions about Classical Music You Never Thought to Ask, by Robert A. Cutietta has the answers and more. This was just a great read! Lots of fun, great variety to the questions, easy to read writing style, this would be of interest those who know a lot about classical music as well as those who know very little. :-)

I have found that books about books are almost always fun, and The Secret Library: a Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of History, by Oliver Tearle is no exception. He ties common themes between books down through the ages with surprising insights on the 'first' ... vampire book, cook book, and so forth. I was reading this about the same time as America's First Daughter (August 12, 2017, post) and had learned that Jefferson started each morning with plunging his feet into ice water so was intrigued by an observation that if you keep your feet warm you can avoid headaches. Jefferson suffered from terrible headaches!

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