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[rockinlibrarian]

Hi!

I'm in a good mood. I don't know why. It might be because I found an ad for a full-time w/ benefits children's librarian (at MOON TOWNSHIP, a very good little library I patronized for a year). It might be because Brianna and I played cheesy '90s music in the car all day and tried to disect all the lyrics. And also, speaking of Brianna and carpooling, we found out that the museum, being a Green Building, is starting an incentive to get people to carpool, allowing everyone who carpools free parking right behind the building, which we have most definitely applied for and may start (if all goes well) next week! It might be because the Stillers Party last night was just a really good time-- I suppose I'll elaborate farther down this entry. It might be because I managed to fill the back of my schedule today with dialogue for the next chapter of Ian Schafer, after having gone about a month of blockishness. It might be because I finished going through the Peters Twp. Library Catalog (fiction only) collecting all the titles I at least remember reading (558), and decided I'm going to fix that list by finding author booklists and other catalogs and whatnot, and then finally posting a Master List With Exciting and Random Review Annotations on the Web because I apparently have nothing better to do with my life. It might be because all you wrote happy things in your own ljs. Well maybe not all of you. Most of you. Liz and Carrie definitely did. Megan wrote something funny, and that's close.

About the Game: so we went out to the Farm, where J's aunt still had the big screen TV she'd rented for the AFC championship, and Bethany surprised everyone! She flew in for the weekend and hung out at her friend's house and just showed up at the party without telling anybody! (This is my sister-in-law who goes to school in Florida). Saturday she went home and stuck a garden gnome on the sidewalk while her parents were out, and they came home and found this gnome walking up to their house and called US because they thought WE must have had something to do with it-- because the only other person who would have done that would be Bethany and it couldn't have been HER. Anyway. Good times were had by all. OKAY, so, those of you who watched the game, did you see the pre-game thing where all those celebrities were reciting Dr. Seuss?? (I ASK THIS PARTICULARLY OF CARRIE AND SALLY). THE BACKGROUND MUSIC WAS THE VIRPETS SCREENSAVER SONG!!! I so freaked. For a moment I thought it was a Children's Museum commercial and I was like, "Wow, how'd we get all these famous people for this commercial?" I totally thought that song was just made for Virpets! Now I really have to find out what it is so I can find a copy of my own because Virpets is broken and I miss the Virpets song! Anyway, that was a particularly bizarre thought of mine. But everyone else at morning meeting today noticed and was amused too. Speaking of the Museum and the Superbowl, I felt all proud that Hines Ward won MVP because he'd come to the Museum the other week, it was like personally touching. 'Cause he was holding his little boy up at the award presentation thing and I was like I MET THAT KID! That was weird of me, probably, but not as weird as my mother-in-law professing that Troy Polamalu has cute elbows. So there. J's cousin was at the game itself-- her boyfriend works for the Steelers, he's like grounds crew or something, and everyone who works for the Steelers got tickets to the game, plane tickets, hotel accomodations, and, if they won (which they did) EVERYONE in the organization including Krista's lowly groundscrew boyfriend actually gets a Superbowl Ring. That's pretty dang impressive. Anyway, Bethany thinks she saw Krista in the crowd during the Stones performance, but no one else caught it. We had a confetti cannon which of course Jason got to pop, and little bottle poppers too. I think that's all the interesting things I have to say.

If you're curious, here is the list of all the books I ever (remember having) read that are in the Peters Township OPAC:
1. Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Life, the universe, and everything, The long dark tea-time of the soul,Mostly harmless, The restaurant at the end of the universe, The salmon of doubt : hitchhiking the galaxy one last time, So long, and thanks for all the fish
9. Adams, Richard: Watership Down
10. Adler, David A.: Jeffrey's ghost and the fifth-grade dragon
11. Adler, Susan S: Meet Samantha, an American girl , Samantha learns a lesson : a school story
13. Aiken, Joan. Dangerous games
14. Alcock, Vivien. The trial of Anna Cotman
15. Alcott, Louisa May. Eight cousins,Little women
17. Alexander, Lloyd: The beggar queen black cauldron, thebook of three, The castle of Llyr, The El Dorado adventure, The Gawgon and The Boy, Gypsy Rizka, high king, The Illyrian adventure, TheThe Kestrel, th rope trick, theTaran Wanderer, Westmark, Xanadu adventure,
31. Angelou, Maya: I know why the caged bird sings.
32. Anonymous: Go ask Alice
33. Anthony, Piers: A spell for Chameleon
34. Armstrong, William Howard: Sounder
35. Atwater, Richard: Mr. Popper's penguins
36. Austen, Jane: Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion,Pride and prejudice, Sandition,Sense and sensibility,
43. Avi: Crispin : the cross of lead, Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel, Midnight magic, Romeo and Juliet together (and alive!) at last, S.O.R. losers, Something upstairs : a tale of ghosts, The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Who was that masked man, anyway?
51. Ayres, Katherine: Macaroni boy
52. Babbitt, Natalie: The Devil's storybook, The eyes of the Amaryllis, Kneeknock Rise, The search for delicious, Tuck everlasting
57. Baggott, Julianna: The Anybodies
58. Balliett, Blue: Chasing Vermeer
59. Banks, Lynne Reid: The Indian in the cupboard
60. Barker, Clive: Abarat
61. Barron, Stephanie: Jane and the unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, Jane and the man of the cloth,Jane and the wandering eye,
64. Barry, Dave: Big trouble, Peter & the Starcatchers
66. Bauer, Joan: Hope was here, Rules of the road
68. Bell, Thomas: Out of this furnace : a novel of immigrant labor in America
69. Birdsall, Jeanne: The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy
70. Block, Francesca Lia: Weetzie bat
71. Bloor, Edward: Tangerine
72. Blume, Judy: Are you there God? : It's me, Margaret, Blubber, Double Fudge, Forever, Fudge-a-mania, Freckle juice, Otherwise known as Sheila the Great, Starring Sally J. Freedman as herself, Superfudge, Tales of a fourth grade nothing, Tiger Eyes
83. Boston, L. M.: The children of Green Knowe
84. Bradley, Marion Zimmer: The mists of Avalon
85. Brink, Carol Ryrie: Caddie Woodlawn
86. Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
87. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
88. Brooks, Bruce: The moves make the man
89. Bunting, Eve: Nasty stinky sneakers, Our sixth-grade sugar babies
91. Burgess, Melvin: Smack
92. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A little princess, The secret garden
94. Butterworth, Oliver: The enormous egg
95. Byars, Betsy: The not-just-anybody family, The pinballs, The summer of the swans,
98. Byng, Georgia: Molly Moon's incredible book of hypnotism
99. Cabot, Meg: The Princess Diaries
100. Cameron, Ann: The stories Julian tells, More stories Julian tells
102. Carbone, Elisa: The Pack
103. Carroll, Lewis: Alice's adventures in Wonderland , Through the looking glass
105. Cassedy, Sylvia: Behind the attic wall, Lucie Babbidge's house, M. E. and Morton
108. Catling, Patrick Skene: The Chocolate touch
109. Child, Lauren: Utterly me, Clarice Bean
110. Choldenko, Gennifer: Al Capone does my shirts
111. Christie, Agatha: And then there were none, Curtain, Murder on the Orient express, The murder of Roger Ackroyd
115. Cleary, Beverly: Beezus and Ramona, Dear Mr. Henshaw, Ellen Tebbits, Emily's runaway imagination, Henry Huggins, The mouse and the motorcycle, Ralph S. Mouse, Ramona the brave, Ramona forever, Ramona Quimby, age 8, Ramona and her father, Ramona the pest, Ramona and her mother, Ramona's world, Ribsy, Runaway Ralph
131. Cleaver, Vera: Where the lilies bloom
132. Clements, Andrew: Frindle, The Landry News, The report card, The school story
136. Clifford, Eth: The remembering box
137. Collier, James Lincoln: My brother Sam is dead
138. Conford, Ellen: Genie with the light blue hair
139. Conly, Jane Leslie: Crazy lady!
140. Cooney, Caroline B.: Both sides of time, The face on the milk carton, Flight #116 is down, Prisoner of time, The Fire, the Fog, the Snow, Whatever happened to Janie?
148. Cooper, Susan: Greenwitch, Over sea, under stone, Silver on the tree, The Boggart, The Dark is Rising, The grey king,
154. Cormier, Robert: The Chocolate War
155. Cowell, Cressida: How to train your dragon / by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III ; translated from the Old Norse
156. Craig, Joe: Jimmy Coates, assassin?
157. Creech, Sharon: Absolutely normal chaos, Granny Torrelli makes soup, Walk two moons
160. Crichton, Michael: The great train robbery, Jurassic Park : a novel, Timeline,
163. Curtis, Christopher Paul: Bucking the Sarge,Bud, not Buddy, The Watsons go to Birmingham—1963
166. Cushman, Karen: The ballad of Lucy Whipple, Catherine, called Birdy, Matilda Bone, The midwife's apprentice
170. Dahl, Roald: The BFG, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Charlie and the great glass elevator, Danny : the champion of the world, Esio Trot, Fantastic Mr. Fox, George's marvelous medicine, James and the giant peach, The magic finger, Matilda, The Minpins, The witches, The wonderful story of Henry Sugar and six more
183. Danziger, Paula: The cat ate my gymsuit ,it's an aardvark-eat-turtle world, P.S. longer letter later, Remember me to Harold Square, Thames doesn't rhyme with James, This place has no atmosphere
189. Davis, Jenny: Good-bye and keep cold.
190. De Angeli, Marguerite: The door in the wall
191. Deaver, Julie Reece: Say goodnight, Gracie
192. DeClements, Barthe: Sixth grade can really kill you
193. Delaney, Mark: Pepperland
194. DiCamillo, Kate: Because of Winn-Dixie, The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread,The tiger rising
197. Dickens, Charles: A Christmas carol, David Copperfield, Great expectations, Oliver Twist
201. Doyle, Arthur Conan: The hound of the Baskervilles,A study in scarlet
203. Draper, Sharon M. Tears of a Tiger
204. Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
205. Duane, Diane: Deep wizardry, So you want to be a wizard
207. Duncan, Lois: Daughters of Eve, Don't look behind you, Down a dark hall, Gallows Hill, A gift of magic, I know what you did last summer, Locked in time, Stranger with my face,Summer of fear, The third eye, The twisted window,
218. Eager, Edward: Half magic,
219. Easton, Patricia Harrison: Summer's chance
220. Ehrlich, Amy: Where it stops, nobody knows
221. Ende, Michael: The Neverending Story
222. Enright, Elizabeth: Gone-Away Lake
223. Farmer, Nancy: A Girl Named Disaster, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm : a novel;
225. Fenton, Edward: Duffy's Rocks
226. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield: Understood Betsy
227. Fitzhugh, Louise: Harriet, the spy
228. Fleischman, Sid: The whipping boy,
229. Funke, Cornelia Caroline: Inkheart, The Thief Lord
231. Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett; Good Omens
232. Gantos, Jack: Joey Pigza swallowed the key, Joey Pigza loses control, What would Joey do?
235. Gates, Doris: Blue willow
236. George, Jean Craighead: Julie of the wolves,
237. Gideon, Melanie: The map that breathed
238. Godden, Rummer: Thursday's children
239. Goldman, William: The princess bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure ; The "good parts" version, abridged.
240. Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows
241. Grant, Vicki: The puppet Wrangler
242. Greene, Bette: Summer of my German soldier
243. Grisham, John: the Client, The pelican brief,
245. Haddix, Margaret Peterson: Among the hidden, Don't you dare read this, Mrs. Dunphrey, Escape from memory
248. Haddon, Mark: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
249. Hamilton, Virginia: M. C. Higgins, the great,
250. Hannigan, Katherine: Ida B : --and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world
251. Herbert, Frank: Dune
252. Hershey, Mary: My big sister is so bossy she says you can't read this book
253. Hesse, Karen: Letters from Rifka, The music of dolphins, Out of the dust,
256. Hinton, S. E.: The Outsiders
257. Horvath, Polly: Everything on a waffle, The Pepins and their problems,
259. Howe, James: Bunnicula : a rabbit-tale of mystery,It came from beneath the bed! : tales from the House of Bunnicula, The Misfits
262. Hugo, Victor: Les miserables
263. Hyde, Catherine Ryan: Pay it forward : a novel
264. Johnston, Tony: The spoon in the bathroom wall
265. Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth
266. Keene, Carolyn: The bungalow mystery, The clue of the leaning chimney, The clue in the crumbling wall, The clue of the whistling bagpipes, The clue of the dancing puppet, The clue in the crossword cipher, The crooked banister, The double jinx mystery, The ghost of Blackwood Hall, The haunted showboat, The haunted bridge, The hidden staircase, The message in the hollow oak, The hidden window mystery, Mystery of the moss-covered mansion, Mystery of the glowing eye, The mystery of the ivory charm, Mystery of the tolling bell, The mystery at Lilac Inn,The mystery of the fire dragon, Nancy's mysterious letter, The phantom of Pine Hill, The secret of the Forgotten City, The secret of Shadow Ranch, The secret in the old attic, The secret of the old clock, The secret of Red Gate Farm, The sign of the twisted candles, The sky phantom, The strange message in the parchment, The thirteenth pearl, The witch tree symbol,
298. Keillor, Garrison: Lake Wobegon days
299. Kindl, Patrice: Owl in Love
300. Klause, Annette Curtis: Blood and chocolate
301. Konigsburg, E. L.: From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The view from Saturday,
303. Lamb, Wally: She's come undone
304. Landon, Lucinda: Meg Mackintosh and the mystery at the soccer match
305. Lawson, Robert: Ben and me : a new and astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin, Rabbit Hill
307. Lee, Harper: To kill a mockingbird
308. LeGuin, Ursula K.: The tombs of Atuan
309. L'Engle, Madeleine: An acceptable time, The arm of the starfish, Camilla, Certain Women, Dragons in the waters, A live coal in the sea, Many Waters, A ring of endless light, A swiftly tilting planet, Troubling a star, A wrinkle in time, The young unicorns
321. Leonard, Elmore: A coyote's in the house
322. Levine, Gail Carson: Ella enchanted, The two princesses of Bamarre,
324. Lewis, C. S.: The horse and his boy, The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, The magician's nephew, Prince Caspian, The silver chair, The voyage of the "Dawn Treader"
330. Lindgren, Astrid: Pippi Longstocking
331. London, Jack: the Call of the Wild
332. Lowry, Lois: Anastasia on her own, Gathering blue, The giver, Messenger, Number the stars, A summer to die
338. MacDonald, Betty: Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
339. MacLachlan, Patricia: The facts and fictions of Minna Pratt, Sarah, plain and tall
341. Mahy, Margaret: Alchemy, Dangerous Spaces, The haunting,
344. McCaffrey, Anne.: Dragonsong, The white dragon, Dragonflight, The dragonriders of Pern,
348. McDonald, Megan: Judy Moody,
349. McKay, Hilary: Indigo’s Star
350. McKenna, Colleen O'Slaughnessy: Camp Murphy, Eenie, meanie, Murphy, no, Fifth grade, here comes trouble, Fourth grade is a jinx, Murphy's Island, Too many Murphys
356. McKinley, Robin: Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast, The blue sword, The hero and the crown,The outlaws of Sherwood,
360. Milne, A. A.: the House at Pooh corner
361. Montgomery, L. M.: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Ingleside, Anne of the island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's house of dreams, Chronicles of Avonlea, Emily of New Moon, Jane of Lantern Hill, Magic for Marigold, Rainbow valley,
372. Morris, Gerald: Parsifal's page, The savage damsel and the dwarf,
374. Myers, Walter Dean: Monster
375. Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds: Shiloh,
376. Nesbit, E: Five children and it
377. Neville, Emily Cheney: It's like this, Cat
378. Nixon, Joan Lowery: A family apart, The weekend was murder! The other side of dark, Whispers from the dead
382. Norton, Mary: the Borrowers
383. Oates, Joyce Carol: Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
384. O'Dell, Scott: Island of the Blue Dolphins
385. Orwell, George: Nineteen eighty-four
386. Paolini, Christopher: Eragon
387. Park, Barbara: Junie B., first grader (at last!)
388. Paterson, Katherine: Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob have I loved, Lyddie, The same stuff as stars
392. Paulsen, Gary: Hatchet : a novel, The time hackers
394. Peck, Richard: Are you in the house alone? Blossom Culp and the sleep of death, The dreadful future of Blossom Culp, A long way from Chicago : a novel in stories, Strays like us, A year down yonder
400. Pierce, Tamora: Briar's book, Cold fire, Daja's book, Magic steps, Sandry's book, Shatterglass, Street magic, Tris's book
408. Pike, Christopher: Fall into darkness, Last act,Remember me, Weekend, Witch
413. Pilkey, Dav: The adventures of Captain Underpants : an epic novel, Captain Underpants and the invasion of the incredibly naughty cafeteria ladies from outer space, Captain Underpants and the wrath of the wicked Wedgie Woman,
416. Pinkwater, Daniel Manus: Looking for Bobowicz : a Hoboken chicken story
417. Potok, Chaim: Davita's harp
418. Pratchett, Terry: The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents, Carpe jugulum, The color of magic, Feet of clay, The fifth elephant, Going postal, A hat full of sky, Hogfather,Interesting times, The last continent, The last hero : a discworld fable, The light fantastic, Lords and ladies, Monstrous regiment, Mort, Moving pictures, Night watch, Pyramids : the book of going forth, Reaper man, Sourcery, Small gods, Thief of time, Thud!, The truth, The Wee Free Men, Wyrd sisters
444. Price, Olive M.: Three golden rivers
445. Pullman, Philip: The amber spyglass, The golden compass, The subtle knife
448. Quinn, Daniel: Ishmael
449. Raskin, Ellen: The Westing game
450. Remarque, Erich Maria: All quiet on the western front
451. Rinaldi, Ann: Mine eyes have seen
452. Robinson, Barbara: The best Christmas pageant ever
453. Rodgers, Mary: A billion for Boris, Freaky Friday
455. Rowling, J. K.: Fantastic beasts and where to find them / by Newt Schamander, Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the half-blood prince, Quidditch through the ages / by Kennilworthy Whisp
463. Rylant, Cynthia: Missing May
464. Sachar, Louis: Dogs don't tell jokes, Holes, There's a boy in the girls' bathroom,
467. Salinger, J. D.: The catcher in the rye.
468. Seidler, Tor: Brainboy and the Deathmaster
469. Selden, George: The cricket in Times Square
470. Silverstein, Shel: The Giving Tree
471. Sleator, William: Interstellar pig
472. Smith, Betty: A tree grows in Brooklyn
473. Snicket, Lemony: The austere academy, The bad beginning, The carnivorous carnival, The ersatz elevator, The grim grotto, The miserable mill, The penultimate peril, The reptile room, The slippery slope, The Unauthorized Autobiography,The vile village, The wide window
485. Snyder, Carol: Memo; to myself when I have a teenage kid
486. Snyder, Zilpha Keatley: The Egypt game, The Unseen
488. Sobol, Donald J: More Two Minute Mysteries
489. Speare, Elizabeth George: The witch of Blackbird Pond
490. Spiegelman, Art: Maus : a survivor's tale,
491. Spinelli, Jerry: Loser, Maniac Magee, Who put that hair in my toothbrush?
494. Steinbeck, John: The Pearl,The red pony.
496. Stine, R. L: Blind date, Bad dreams, Haunted, I saw you that night, Lights out, The new girl, Secret admirer, The Babysitter, The baby-sitter II, Curtains, Dead end, Silent night, The sleepwalker, Truth or dare, Wrong number
511. Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's travels
512. Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club
513. Taylor, Mildred D.: Roll of thunder, hear my cry
514. Thomas, Rob: Rats saw God
515. Tolkien, J. R. R.: The hobbit, or, There and back again, The lord of the rings
517. Tomlinson, Theresa: The forestwife
518. Tripp, Valerie: Meet Molly : an American girl,
519. Twain, Mark: The adventures of Tom Sawyer, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
521. Voigt, Cynthia: Come a stranger,Izzy, willy-nilly, Jackaroo, On fortune's wheel, Seventeen against the dealer, Homecoming, A solitary blue, Sons from afar, The Callender papers, Dicey's song
531. Vonnegut, Kurt: Breakfast of champions : or, Goodbye blue Monday! God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-five
534. Warner, Gertrude Chandler: The Boxcar Children
535. Waugh, Sylvia: Earthborn, Who goes home?
537. Weis, Margaret and Tracy Hickman: Dragons of winter night, Dragons of autumn twilight, Dragons of Spring Dawning
540. Wiggin, Kate Douglas: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
541. Wilder, Laura Ingalls: By the shores of Silver Lake, Little town on the prairie, Little house on the prairie, Little house in the big woods, The long winter, On the banks of Plum Creek, These happy golden years
548. Wolff, Virginia Euwer: Make Lemonade
549. Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
550. Woolfe, Angela: Avril Crump and her amazing clones
551. Wrede, Patricia C.: Dealing with dragons, Searching for dragons, Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The enchanted chocolate pot
554. Wright, Betty Ren: Ghosts beneath our feet
555. Yee, Lisa: Millicent Min, girl genius
556. Yep, Laurence: Dragonwings
557. Yolen, Jane: Briar Rose
558. Zindel, Paul.: the Pigman

Now, this catalog had some serious ommissions in it... so I will be continuing to gather this list, and eventually I will write some Enlightening and Even-dare-I-say-possibly-Entertaining Annotations for it and post it on the Internet, and I will be sure to give you all the link to it. Because I know you care.

Comments

[vovat.livejournal.com]

69. Birdsall, Jeanne: The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy

Seriously? She used to live across the street from me. My dad dated/had an affair her while he was still married to my mom, and then for a while after they got separated. She was a jerk. I knew she had written a children's book, but not that anyone had ever actually read it. Was it any good?

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah. That's funny. I didn't even know she was from PA. It takes place in New England somewhere if I recall-- but come to think of it I recall some references to Pennsylvania there too, but I forget what. Yeah, it was a pretty cute book. Funny, she seems to get down on parents who let their personal lives interfere with their parenting in the book. Well, I don't know if she interfered with your dad's PARENTING... anyway!

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Actually, this is a fairly new book, I think. It was new in my library this past year (which was when I read it, which is why it's fairly fresh in my memory)-- so maybe this is a new one she's written since you've known her, and nobody's ever read any of her earlier books.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that's the first book she ever wrote. When my dad was dating her, she was a photographer and, um...writer of technical manuals, I think. Some time after breaking up with my dad, she moved to Massachusetts. My dad still talks to her, though, which is how I knew about the book.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

That would also account for why the book takes place in New England!