• something by David Sedaris
• Something by Sarah Vowell
• The other Harry Potters
• something by Malcolm Gladwell

• Downtown & The Cultural District
• East Liberty
• Friendship & Penn Ave Arts District
• Lawrenceville
• North Side
• Oakland
• Shadyside
• South Side
• Squirrel Hill
• Strip District
• Dormont
• Mt. Lebanon
• Millvale
• Carnegie
• Regent Square
• Bellevue
• Aspinwall
• Oakmont
• Sewickley
• W. Homestead

• Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
• Burmese Days (1934)
• A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
• The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
• Homage to Catalonia (1938)
• Coming Up for Air (1939)
• Animal Farm (1945)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

• heart of darkness
• breakfast at tiffany's
• coraline
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
• the old man and the sea
• notes from the underground
• The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount - calvino
• daisy miller - henry james
• nadja - andre breton
• les enfants terrible - cocteau
• gigi - colette
• alice's adventures in wonderland
• goodbye, columbus - Philip Roth
• first love - turgenev

• phipps
• zoo
• mattress factory
• shadyside
• first friday
• urban outfitters
• movie theater in squirrel hill
• south side not south side works
• jerry's records
• find a vegan restaurant
• kennywood

• Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale
• Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
• All those graphic novels on that list somewhere
• Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
• Kafka - The Trial
• chabon - mysteries of pittsburgh
• reread 1984
• lolita
• sound and fury
• Tom Robbins
• Bruno Schulz- The Street of Crocodiles

what else??

• mongongo nut
• kola nut
• yam foofoo
• kwassa kwassa
• quoi ça?
• dirndl
• firmament
• repartee
• crescendo
• Bouche de miel, coeur de fiel.
• esprit d'escalier
• modernity

• recordable dvds
• new hamper
• curtains or fabric for the window?
• book and sparkchart for montco class
• polaroid pogo from ebay

Modern Literature:

• My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
• Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
• The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
• Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Quattrocento by James McKean
• The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

• '98-'00 - embarrassing concerts
• Bright Eyes & Feist - Academy of Music
• Hanson - Crocodile Rock (March 4, 07)
• Kaiser Chiefs, Walkmen, Annuals - Electric Factory (June 6 07)
• Modest Mouse, Band of Horses - Festival Pier (Aug 19 07)
• Metric, Crystal Castles - Troc (Sept 19 07)
• Hanson - Electric Factory (Sept 26 07)
• Mika - Electric Factory (Jan 31 08)
• Tilly and the Wall - Church (March 19 08)
• Kimya Dawson - Church sanctuary (April 5 08)
• I'm From Barcelona, Pepi Ginsberg - Church(April 24 08)
• Rilo Kiley - Electric Factory (June 5 08)
• Popped Fest - Drexel (June 20 08)
• Conor Oberst - Troc (Aug 11 08)