Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, David and Amy Sedaris, Page Smith, and Eckhard Tolle, Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Nobel Prize for Literature

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison at QuoteGarden.com
Toni Morrison at Wikipedia
Toni Morrison at The New York Times Book Review

Works by Toni Morrison held by the library:

• Love
• The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Juvenile)
• Paradise
• The Bluest Eye
• Jazz
• Beloved: A Novel (Awarded a Puilitzer Prize)
• Song of Soloman
• Sula

Toni Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Looking for what's on the New York Times Bestseller List--in all the different categories (hardback fiction and non-fiction; paperback fiction and non-fiction; children's books and much more), then go to:

Books at New York Times Book Review

And don't forget that our Carlsbad Library staff is constantly adding books from the the lists above. In fact, they have updated sheets on what has been recently acquired and what is on order from the best sellar lists. And other new books, not yet on the best sellar lists, are added as well. A book by one of my favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut, who passed away in April 2007, was recently acquired: Armageddon in Retrospect and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace. I feel like Kurt Vonnegut was my friend for almost forty years.

What other Vonnegut books do we luckily possess in our public library?

• A Man Without a Country


• Mother Night


• Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction


• Timequake


• Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
  


• Hocus pocus


• Galapagos : a novel


• Deadeye Dick


• Palm Sunday : an autobiographical collage


• Breakfast of champions; or, Goodbye blue Monday!

The library doesn't have the Vonnegut book that I started with and was thereafter hooked on his writing, Welcome to the Monkey House, a collection of short stories. My favorite Vonnegut book:

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Kurt Vonnegut at Brainy Quote
Kurt Vonnegut at Wikipedia
Kurt Vonnegut at The New York Times Book Review


Quick Recommendations:
Me Talk Pretty Some Day by David Sedaris
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The first humorous essay in this collection looks at speech therapy David received as a youngster; very funny. Both David and his sister Amy are acclaimed humorists
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightment by Eckhard Tolle
A book that reminds you that you should be in charge of your mind, not vice versa. Explains how you can set your mind straight. Caution: parts may have to be reread and digested slowly, but that is a small price to pay for moving pass situational dysfunction, no?
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Any American history book by author Page Smith. His books are detailed, interesting, and around 1,000 pages each. An incredibly writer gifted with the talent to bring history alive, as the cliche goes. I am currently reading (along with a few other books) the fifth one of the eight I have found. These books are relatively rare, so our library doesn't have all of them, but I have found some on-line. I recommend reading them in order if you plan to read them all. *****+
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Happy, Entertaining, Productive, and Escapist Reading to You

© Bob Hoff, 2008