Category Archives: Books

Books I Received For My Birthday

  1. The Glass Castle – by Jeanette Walls
  2. Fifty Shades of Gray – by E. James
  3. The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival – by Stanley Alpert
  4. To Be Sung Underwater – by Tom McNeal
    To Be Sung Underwater: A Novel [Book]

Items on My Night Stand

  1.  lamp
  2. bottle of water
  3. Carmex
  4. 2 Prescriptions
  5. allergy medicine
  6. 5 different bracelets
  7. a ceramic box holding mismatched earrings
  8. 3 empty bowls
  9. 1 empty plate
  10. half a dozen napkins
  11. my college degree
  12. a bag of cough drops
  13. 3 AA batteries
  14. a thermometer
  15. paperwork for the website I write for
  16. a phone list from work
  17. anklet that says “Maui”
  18. prescription eye drops I haven’t used in 6 months
  19. 2 Tootsie roll wrappers
  20. blue plastic maracas from the Silvis Moonlight Parade last August
  21. coupons Caleb made for me when he was a kid
  22. 2 hair ties
  23. another box of allergy meds (different kind)
  24. cell phone bill

In Recognition of the Ides of March, Some of My Favorite Shakespeare Quotes

  1. “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.  He thinks too much.  Such men are dangerous.”
  2. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”
  3. “I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”
  4. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
  5. “Cowards die many times before their deaths.”
  6. “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
  7. “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

Young Reader Books Everyone Should Read (Even If They Are An Adult)

  1. Tom’s Midnight Garden
  2. The Boxcar Children
  3. The Westing Game
  4. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
  5. The Chronicles of Narnia
  6. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
  7. Snow Treasure
  8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland