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I am a library assistant at a small town library in northcentral Pennsylvania. Previously, I worked in the newspaper business for 14 years, mostly as an editor for weeklies in southcentral Pennsylvania. In my spare time, I've been blogging for the past 10 years.

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  • Rumpole Misbehaves by John Mortimer
  • Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer
  • Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer
  • Rumspringa: To Be Or Not To Be Amish by Tom Schachtman
  • Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean Pierre de Caussade
  • Shakespeare: The World As Stage by Bill Bryson
  • Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
  • Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
  • Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
  • Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
  • Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
  • The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight by Jimmy Breslin
  • An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
  • World War Z by Max Brooks
  • Big Trouble by Dave Barry
  • Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by M.C. Beaton
  • The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
  • Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death by M.C. Beaton
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Red Bird (poems) by Mary Oliver
  • The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
  • Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • No Use Dying Over Spilled Milk: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with Recipes by Tamar Myers
  • 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman
  • The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity by Stefan Klein
  • Just Plain Pickled To Death: A Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with Recipes by Tamar Myers
  • The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
  • Sailing Around The Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
  • Sister Pelagia and The White Bulldog by Boris Akunin
  • Sister Pelagia and The Black Monk by Boris Akunin
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  • Exiles by Ron Hansen
  • Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  • Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2005 compilation)
  • Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller with Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley
  • Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
  • The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri
  • The Triumph of Caesar by Steven Saylor
  • Ultimate Iron Man by Orson Scott Card 4/5
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo 3/5
  • Right as Rain by George P. Pelecanos 3.5/5
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 4/5
  • Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt and David L. Weaver-Zercher 4/5
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 5/5
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 5/5
  • Rex Libris: I, Librarian by James Turner 4/5
  • The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 5/5
  • The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier 4/5
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry 5/5
  • Black Boy by Richard Wright 5/5
  • Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes 5/5
  • The Story of A Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell
  • The Last Days of Krypton by Kevin J. Anderson
  • Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
  • The Gypsy Morph: Genesis of Shanara, Vol 3. by Terry Brooks

For what I thought of each one, visit here and links to reviews posted on that page.

mar 24 2008 ∞
mar 4 2010 +