What's in the trunk of your car?: i’m kind of prepared for the apocalypse. sleeping bags, tools, change of clothes, toiletries, heavy duty jumper cables. Picnic blankets. Emergency chocolate (not kidding). Cloth bags (save the planet), emergency books on tape (in case I get carjacked and the carjacker lets me listen to a book on tape for the roadtrip?), the stl white pages and yellow pages, silverware in case of an impromptu picnic so that we don’t use plastic, umbrellas. . .
Favorite memory: working Wednesday nights (2-10) with barry leibman in 2001. and meeting garrison keillor, david eggers, and david Sedaris.
Using only one word, describe yourself: wordy.
Favorite smell: old books. Duh. (not moldy books)
Porn star name: Maggie Westwood (first pet/first street) (these are the first I remember anyway: otherwise it would be Gypsy 72nd terrace. Which is not as poetic)
What do you think your job is at LBB? chief denial-officer about barry leaving. Self appointed. Also, most-obsessive card-organizational nazi. Which is hindered by working one day a week.
ISBN-13: 9780968876831
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Published: Simply Read, 4/2003
The Red Tree is a lovely book with meditative text and dream-like
illustrations. A wonderful book for children, and one that won't get
old upon many bedtime readings. A good gift.
love, jen
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780385733137
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 9/2006
Wonderful young adult novel
reminiscent of laura ingalls wilder, but for a young adult instead of
a child (but nothing that you wouldn't want your child to read).
about a young woman who is self sufficient. a true story about the
author's ancestor. really great book. I just read it for the first
time last year, and would recommend it for adults too.
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9781845073909
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Published: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 3/2009
This book has touching watercolors of a family preparing for the day
(no words, just pictures). It is very true to life, with the adults
reading the newspaper and drinking coffee, and then rushing around
like crazy to get ready to run out the door. I just love it.
love, jen
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780385014854
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Published: Anchor, 10/1995
Elizabeth Fernea went to Iraq in the 1950's with her anthropologist
husband, and was totally unprepared for the experience. This account
of her time there is just wonderful. I just happened across this book
in our used section one day, and luckily bought it. I was immediately
absorbed by it. My copy is so well-worn that the pages are mostly
separated from the binding. It is a pile of paper by now. This is
another book that I buy copies to have on hand to give to people. I
love it.
love, jen
Dawn (Mass Market Paperback) $17.99
ISBN-13: 9780446603775
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Published: Aspect, 4/1997
$11.95
ISBN-13: 9780375758003
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Published: Modern Library, 9/2001
D. H. Lawrence sure can write. I pathalogically buy copies of his
work, especially different editions and different versions of Lady
Chatterley's Lover (John Thomas and Lady Jane). The first and last
paragraphs of Lady Chatterley's Lover alone are proof of his writing
genius. I love them (see below).
love, jen
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build
up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard
work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round,
or scramble over obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many
skies have fallen.” . . . “But a great deal of us is together, and we
can but abide by it, and steer our courses to meet soon. John Thomas
says good-night to lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful
heart--”
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780679778431
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Published: Random House, 3/1997
I received this book as a gift from a bibliophile friend (Barry). I
immediately read it and loved it (as he thought I should). It is a
little weird (it is sci-fi), but wonderful. As soon as I found
another copy of it (here) (used) (it was out of print for a while), I
got it and mailed it to one of my sisters. My coworkers here love it
too. It has been Erin G's staff pick too. Now that it is back in
print, it can be read by everyone again!! Yeay!
love, jen
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781593761868
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Published: Counterpoint LLC, 1/2008
I picked up this book because I have a friend named Scott with whom I
sometimes go to breakfast. Upon reading, I fell in love with this
writer's style. He uses zero cliches. Rather, he uses unexpected
descriptions and dialog, without being stilted or calling attention to
the writing itself; it flows. I reread passages to look at his word
choices and metaphors again. It's a great read.
love, jen
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780060932817
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 8/2001
I've only waited tables for 4 months of my life. This woman had done
it for 20 years at the writing of this memoir. But I still related to
much so much of what she talked about. I appreciated her intelligent
commentary on people-- customers as well as co-workers. Should be
required reading for people who haven't worked in the service
industry. If you have worked in the service industry, ever, you will
love it.
love, jen
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780812508642
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Published: Tor Science Fiction, 2/1997
Card takes a look at what is essential to human nature, whether evils
such as slavery, human sacrifice, and imperialism could have been
avoided in our cultural evolution. In Pastwatch, he explores how
events could have gone differently. It is a strange statement he
makes, in that he asserts that certain major evils of current society
could have been mere chance. Simple bad decisions or rumors became
legend or religious tradition. Not altogether new thoughts, I guess,
but the way Card frames them really caught me. Card rejects the
notion that humanity needed certain growing pains. He has an
optimistic view of humanity, but not simplistic. I really love this
book, and have read it many times, and lent the book to many people.
love, jen
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780807083697
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Published: Beacon Press, 2/2004
Octavia Butler's Kindred is powerful and thought-provoking. I read
her books multiple times so that her ideas can seep into my
subconscious. She always gets to the heart of a relationship, of
fear, of love, of bitterness-- and lays it out for us to examine. And
her writing just flows. It is a joy to read. The page speaks.
love, jen
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780060581800
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Published: HarperCollins, 5/2004
The Little House books are so good. I still read them if I feel out
of touch with life. Laura's writing is matter-of-fact and instills a
peace through the quite, simple description of her every day life and
stories of her family's struggles. These books are written for young
readers, but they are not immature or simple-minded. If you have
read all of Laura's books and would like to read something more, A
Little House Sampler has some of Laura's columns that she wrote for
different newspapers and such, as well of some of her daughter's
writings-- very interesting. I also appreciate her book The First
Four Years, because it was published post-humously, as a rough draft,
and I feel that more of her soul shows here, and more of her struggle
with life.
love, jen
$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780141309811
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Published: Puffin Books, 10/2000
I've read this fairy tale about 300 times. It is well-written and the
hero is a girl. She starts out as an awkward girl and grows into a
capable woman. Robin McKinley rewrites other fairy tales to make the
female protagonist more active. I highly recommend her retellings of
Beauty and the Beast (title: Beauty) and Sleeping Beauty (title:
Spindle's End). I love all the other books of hers that I have read
too.
love, jen
