Happy Picture Day!

It is for Sarah and Jeffrey, anyway -- we helped them get showered and get ready to go, amazing how fast they're growing! Amazing too, to pay for pictures twice a year, in the fall AND in the spring ... but that's ok, although we do have to figure out who we're sending the extra pictures in the package to; we still have quite a lot upstairs in storage. Anybody wants one pair, just tell me where to send them. Wink wink nudge nudge.

After bringing the kids to school today, I stopped at our Adult Learning Center where all week they are having a book sale. All the books you can fit into a plastic bag for three dollars each. It's easy to get carried away with that, as I know I have done and did and do. I'd also welcome advice on what books I should read first that I haven't read already (and some of them I have, I just have fond memories of them). And some will go right out again -- but that's in my lifetime. Books don't die.

David

At Least This Place Sells T-Shirts                                                    Bill Amend

[I separated them in groups of ten to make it easier to count!]

Who is Alaska's Favorite Bear?                                                       Kyle and Lisa Forbush
Man's Search For Meaning                                                              Viktor E. Frankl
Heavy Water                                                                                     Martin Amis
Five-Minute Mysteries                                                                      Ken Weber
Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!                                 Barbara Johnson
Bust-Up                                                                                             Wallace Reyburn
The Devil in the White City                                                               Erik Larson
Eichmann in Jerusalem                                                                     Hannah Arendt
The Great Little Madison                                                                  Jean Fritz
The News From Paraguay                                                                Lily Tuck

Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House                                               Alexander L. & Juliette L. George
The Rescue of Miss Yaskell and Other Pipe Dreams                       Russell Baker
the Life you long for                                                                         Beth Moore
Little Brother                                                                                    Cory Doctorow
The Empress of Weehawken                                                             Irene Dische
The Courtier and the Heretic                                                           Matthew Stewart
The Seven Rays                                                                                 Jessica Bendinger
I Am An American                                                                            Jerry Stanley
First Ladies: Women Who Called the White House Home              Beatrice Gormley
Foreign Affairs                                                                                 (September/October 2012)

Code of the Life Maker                                                                    James P. Hogan
The Red Badge of Courage                                                              Stephen Crane
Nectar in a Sieve                                                                              Kamala Markandaya
A.D. Anno Domini                                                                            Kirk Mitchell
Why We Can't Wait                                                                          Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great Unsolved Crimes                                                                    Louis Solomon
Time at the Top                                                                                 Edward Ormondroyd
The Silver Pigs                                                                                  Lindsey Davis
Startide Rising                                                                                   David Brin
Write Yourself Thin                                                                           Toni Lynn Allawatt

Moving Mars                                                                                      Greg Bear
Tristessa                                                                                             Jack Kerouac
Crime and Punishment                                                                       Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance                                      Robert L. Pirsig
QB VII                                                                                                 Leon Uris
Star Trek: New Frontier -- House of Cards                                        Peter David
The Great Train Robbery                                                                    Michael Crichton
The Lord of the Absurd                                                                        Raymond J. Nogar
Their Eyes Were Watching God                                                          Zora Neale Hurston
Why Not, Lafayette?                                                                            Jean Fritz