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You Know You’re a Rockhound When…

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Snowflake Obsidian Specimen _____________________ – You look down instead of up. – Any rock, no matter how common, will raise your pulse. – You see beauty in all rocks, even “Leaverites,” the ones you leave behind. – Your family and friends just roll their eyes when you pick up yet another rock. – You are willing to dig up a rock with a spoon, even if it means ruining the spoon. – You have been known to visit urban rock piles and risk stares from people who are wondering why an old person is crawling around on a dirt pile. – You are willing to pay excess baggage fees (international, yet) for a large yellow rock that looks like a loaf of bread. – Your pockets are always filled with rocks and residual dirt. – You often find pebbles in your shoes and even socks. – You don’t mind dirt at all, even under your fingernails. That’s why soap and water exist. – You get why rocks are so spiritual; you understand that rocks have been around since the beginning of earth ...

2012: Book Box #19 – Books

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Jimmy Breslin:  Table Money , 1986   2012: Book Box #19 – Books   1. Anania: Michael Anania, Ed. New Poetry Anthology I , 1969 2. Atkins: J.W.H. Atkins. English Literary Criticism, 17th and 18th Centuries , 1951, 1966 3. Berne: Eric Berne. Games People Play , 1964, October 1966 4. Breslin: Jimmy Breslin. Table Money , 1986 5. Carey: Glenn O. Carey. Quest for Meaning: Modern Short Stories , 1975 6. Carroll: Paul Carroll, Ed. The Young American Poets , 1968 7. Coover: Robert Coover. The Public Burning , 1976, 1977 8. Dickinson: Thorold Dickinson. A Discovery of Cinema , 1973 (reprint) 9. Gifford: Henry Gifford. The Novel in Russia from Pushkin to Pasternak , 1964, 1965 10. Gregory: Horace Gregory (Introduction). Robert Browning: Selected Poetry , 1956 11. Highet: Gilbert Highet. The Anatomy of Satire , 1961, 1962 12. Hofgrete: Pearl Hofgrete. The Process of Creative Writing , Revised Edition, 1947, 1956 13. Huxley: Aldous Huxley. Brave New Worl...

2012: Book Box #18 – Books

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Mark Lane.  Rush to Judgment , 1966   2012: Book Box #18 – Books   1. Abrams: M.H. Abrams, Ed. et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature , Vol. 1, 1962 2. Alcoholics Anonymous, The Big Book , 3rd Ed., 1976 3. Butler: Samuel Butler. Erewhon or Over the Range , 1961 4. Department of the Army Field Manual FM-22-5: Drill & Ceremonies , August 1958 5. Eco: Umberto Eco. The Name of the Rose , 1980, 1983 6. Eliot: George Eliot. Adam Bede , 1961 7. Fleming: Ian Fleming. The Man with the Golden Gun (James Bond), 1965 8. Gray: Ronald Gray, Ed. Kafka , 1963 9. Holmes: Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table , 2nd Edition, 1906 10. Huxley: Aldous Huxley. Texts and Pretexts , 1933 11. Jaivin: Linda Jaivin. Eat Me , 1997 12. Lane: Mark Lane. Rush to Judgment , 1966 13. Lion Cub Scout Book , 1948 14. McGeady: Sister Mary Rose McGeady. Are You Out There, God? 1st Edition, 1996 15. Morrisey: Charles T. Morrisey and Ga...

2012: Book Box #17 – Books

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 Alexandria Ripley.  Scarlett, The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind , 1991   2012: Book Box #17 – Books   1. Beer: Samuel E. Beer, Ed. The Communist Manifesto (Max and Engels), 1955 2. Bits & Pieces , July 1980 3. Cabot: James Elliot Cabot. A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson , Vols. 1 and 2, 1887 4. Clarke: Arthur C. Clarke. 2010: Odyssey Two , 1982 5. Daigon: Arthur Daigon and Ronald T. LaConte. The Good Life U.S.A. (with Teacher’s Guide), 1975 6. de Beauvoir: Simone de Beauvoir. The Second Sex , 1952, 1974 7. Fuller: Margaret Fuller. American Men of Letters , 1884 8. Goldsmith: Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield , Vol. 1 (Facsimile), 1766 9. Harbage: Alfred Harbage, Ed. The Complete Shakespeare , 1969-1975 10. Havelock: Ellis Havelock. Marlowe , 1956, 1961 11. Highet: Gilbert Highet. The Art of Teaching , 1950 12. Jones: LeRoi Jones. Dutchman and The Slave , Two Plays, 1964 13. Kantor: McKinley Kantor. Valley...

2012: Book Box #16 – Books

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J.D. Salinger.  Raise High the Roof Beam  ( New Yorker , 1955),  Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction  ( New Yorker , 1959) (1st Edition), 1963   2012: Book Box #16 – Books   1. Anderson: Ronald A. Anerson and Walter Kumpf. Business Law , 1976 2. Brownmiller: Susan Brownmiller. Against Our Will , 1975 3. Buck: Pearl A. Buck. The Living Reed , 1963 4. Burgess: Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange (paperback), 1967 5. Coover: Robert Coover. Pricksongs & Descants, Fictions (1st Edition), 1969 6. Dickens: Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers (paperback), 1975 7. Dostoevsky: Fyodor Dostoevsky. Notes From the Underground and The Grand Inquisitor (paperback), 1960 8. Faulkner: William Faulkner. The Reivers: A Reminiscence (paperback), 1962 9. Fitzgerald: F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby (paperback), 1974 10. Flanner: Janet Flanner. The Cubical City (Lost American Fiction) , 1926, 1962 11. Friendly: Fred W. Friendly. Due ...

2012: Book Box #15 – Books

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Kathryn Watterson.  Not By the Sword , 1995   2012: Book Box #15 – Books   1. Anonymous (Joe Klein). Primary Colors , 1996 2. Barton: Mary Ann Barton and Paul C. Barton. Campaign: A Cartoon History of Bill Clinton’s Race for the White House , 1993 3. Clausen: Jan Clausen. Books & Life , 1989 4. Espenshade: Edward B. Espenshade (Ed.), Jr. and Joel L. Morrison (Associate Editor). Goodes World Atlas , 15th Edition, 1980 5. Georgia O’Keefe, The New York Years, 1992 Calendar 6. Kathe Kollwitz (art book), 1992 7. Loewinstein: Andrea Freud Loewinstein. This Place , 1984 8. Manrique: Jaime Manrique. Latin Moon in Manhattan , 1992 9. Nixon: Richard M. Nixon. Six Crises , 1st Edition, 1962 10. Ornish: Dean Ornish. Eat More, Weigh Less , 1994 11. Plasil, Ellen Plasil. Therapist (The Shocking Autobiography of a Woman Sexually Exploited by Her Therapist) , 1985 12. Pope: Harrison G. Pope, Jr. and James Hudson. New Hope for Binge Eaters , 1984 13....

2012: Book Box #14 – Books

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Derek Humphry,  Final Exit , 1991   2012: Book Box #14 – Books   (Note: Publication dates are for original release dates, not necessarily the specific date for these specific books. I never marked the dates, and I’m disinclined to redo the box to look for the dates .)   1. Diamant: Anita Diament. The Red Tent , 1997 2. Dunson: John Dunson. Keeper of Secrets , 2002. 3. Francis: Dick Francis. Wild Horses , 1994 4. Hayslip: Le Ly Hayslip. Child of War, Woman of Peace , 1993 5. Humphry: Derek Humphry. Final Exit , 1991 6. Leleux: Robert Leleux. Beautiful Boy , 2008 7. Marr: John S. Marr and John Baldwin. The Eleventh Plague , 1999 8. Millhauser: Steven Millhauser. In the Penny Arcade , 1986 9. Nin: Anais Nin. The Diary of Anais Nin , Volume 7 (1966 -1974), 1974? 10. Patchett: Ann Patchett. Bel Canto , 2001 11. Pratt: Fletcher Pratt. Double Jeopardy , 1952 12. Shreve: Anita Shreve. Fortune Rocks , 1999 13. Siegel: Gerald Siegel. The Poe-e...

2012: Book Box #13 – Large Books and Yearbooks

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Robert Ergang.  Europe from the Renaissance to Waterloo.  1954   2012: Book Box #13 – Large Books and Yearbooks   1. Ergang: Robert Ergang. Europe from the Renaissance to Waterloo. 1954 2. Kytle: Ray Kytle. The Comp Box. 1972 3. Maline: Julian L. Maline. Prose and Poetry of America. 1955 4. Reflections. Kenwood Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1 5. Yearbook: Heelan High School. The Shield . 1966, 1967, 1968 6. Yearbook: Kenwood High School. The Bluebook. 1958, 1959 7. Yearbook: Western Maryland College. Aloha . 1 960, 1961, 1962, 1963 8. Yearbook: Western Maryland College. Aloha . 1978 supplement   2012-Book-13-Large Books and Yearbooks Brown Box   Keywords: -2012- -Books- Composition Fiction History Poetry The Lists Yearbooks   Attic

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