Give Eula a notebook that's unmistakably hers. Eula's Notebook has her name in elegant script over a pink watercolor apple blossom cover.
Eula is a short form of Eulalia, says Behind the Name. Eulalia comes from the Greek eulalos, “sweetly speaking”, from eu, “good”, and laleo, “to talk”. It was the name of an early 4th-century saint from Mérida in Spain, and of another martyr of the same time who is a patron saint of Barcelona; the two may be the same person.
Behind the Name lists Lalia as a variant of Eula, and Eulalia as the full form. In Spanish the name becomes Olalla or Olaya, and in Catalan Eulàlia or Laia.
Eula Biss, born in 1977, is an American essayist. Wikipedia says her book Notes from No Man’s Land won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and On Immunity: An Inoculation was one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 best books of 2014. She taught writing at Northwestern University for fifteen years.
Eula was a turn-of-the-century name. US Social Security data has it in the top 200 from the 1880s to the 1920s, peaking at 126th in the 1900s, with more than 12,100 American girls named Eula in the 1920s. Behind the Name says it last ranked in the US top 1,000 in 1960.
Barcelona throws a week-long party for Eula’s patron saint. Wikipedia says Saint Eulalia of Barcelona was martyred in 303 at the age of 13. Her remains were moved in 1339 to an alabaster tomb in the crypt of the city’s cathedral, and the Festival of Saint Eulalia is held every year for a week around her feast day on February 12.
Eula’s Notebook works just as well for a teenager as for a grandmother. It’s 6" x 9", which fits in most bags, with 160 lined pages and no printed layout to work around. Use it as a diary, a school notebook, a planner or a place to collect quotes and ideas. A name on the cover turns an everyday notebook into something personal.
A plain notebook is useful. One with her name on it is a gift. Seeing “Eula’s Notebook” on the cover tells Eula it was chosen for her, not grabbed off a shelf, and that small touch is often what makes people keep a notebook going instead of abandoning it after a week.
How big is Eula’s Notebook? 6" x 9", or about 15.2 x 22.9 cm. It’s a paperback with 160 lined pages inside.
Where do I buy it? Eula’s Notebook is available on Amazon, which prints each copy to order and looks after delivery and refunds.
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