One of my math textbooks actually had a "lagniappe" section.

Speaking as a reader with no scholarly reading bent aside from hockey books, I'd say adding a little "see figure n" footnote in the appendix and adding it to the end might work. But an appendix to an appendix definitely evokes the image of Burgess Meredith in coke bottle glasses pulling a book off a top library shelf and blowing an inch of dust off it.

Yeah, I was afraid of that. The problem is, after I put together, it is not just a table. It needs some explanation. I've avoided appendixes to appendixes everywhere else.

OK- I can borrow from journalists and textbooks - put in a long sidebar, or pullout or whatever they call it.

Or else I can just suck it up, and make the appendix a long one. If you've turned to the appendix presumably you are interested in the subject. So OK, this appendix is a bit detailed.

You could make Appendix B "Lemma to Appendix A" or "Details of Section 5 in Appendix A" or something like that.

In the interests of expanding my literary education, I downloaded Austen's "Northanger Abbey" from Gutenberg Project. I did not expect to laugh out loud twice before I got halfway through the first paragraph. Jane Austen can be snarky! What a lovely discovery. I might need to find a hard copy of this so I can read it on the bus and snicker in delight and have people give me funny looks. It always seems to amaze people that someone could be having a good time reading something in a "classic literature" binding. When I was reading "The Odyssey" and obviously getting into it, people kept asking me if I was reading it for a class. They looked utterly boggled when I said No.

Jane Austen can be snarky!

She kind of invented it.

Northanger Abbey was my introduction to Jane Austen. It was love at first snark.

Not to mention the second reading of Sense and Sensibility. Marianne's superior attitude at the beginning becomes so much more comic when you know what's going to happen to her later.

Pride and Prejudice was the first Austen I ever read. It was interesting, but not immensely engaging. The matter-of-fact acceptance that gentlemen occasionally had bastard children to support was refreshing after dealing with books that pretended people didn't have sex until marriage. I think I will now trust the judgement of history that's kept Austen's books around.

Has anyone read Sue Monk Kidd's new book, The Mermaid Chair? I'm pretty sure my mother loved The Secret Life of Bees, so I was thinking about getting this for her for her upcoming birthday, BUT the review on amazon says

"Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle."

And I am kind of wondering if it will be too much of a downer to give to a middle aged woman who spends a fair amount of time taking care of her ill mother.