Doctors Killed George Washington

Doctors Killed George Washington : Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Medicine
By Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo
2002
Weight: 10 oz
Method of Disposal:  Leaving somewhere in Decatur, GA

I am SO tired of being sick.  It started with migraines that induced nausea and now my brain feels like it is separated into 4 disconnected pieces that do not know how to communicate with each other, and I am making enough mucus to open a glue factory.  Gross, right?

I am such a wimp.  I think of the people I know who are chronically ill, and I feel like a fool for whimpering about my minor, sporadic ailments.  I am offering up a virtual toast to the health of all those I love and giving up this book in that vein. 

He Began With Eve

He Began With Eve  Joyce Landorf
1983
Weight: 9. 6 oz
Method of Disposal: Leaving about town

It is Mother's Day weekend.  I spent the day with my amazing mother.  We went to an "estate" sale that was not really an estate sale.  Luckily, everyone in the family was very much alive but also very attached to the items they were trying to sell and not inexpensively or decisively I might add.  I cannot begin to recount the awkward times we had there.  We went to dinner and then home to watch a movie.

Tomorrow, I will be doing a bunch of volunteer work for my place of employment and then I will set off to my grandmother's to celebrate her as a mother and also to celebrate the day of her birth.  She is the one that passed on this bizarre book to me.  The back cover of the book and the author can be seen in the picture shown above.  I feel like this should be enough said.  Title, picture, gift from Southern Baptist Grandma.

There was something shocking about this book though.  I was surprised that my grandmother had bought and read a book that was a fictionalized account of the lives of women in the bible.  I don't know why.  She is religious.  She is a woman.  But it  seemed, almost, like a brush with feminism to me.  I know she would recoil, and I know we have differing opinions about the definition of feminism too.  It was also something about it being a FICTIONAL account from the women's perspectives that made it seem just slight subversive to me.  Am I trying too hard?  Yeah...

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
1993
Weight: 1 lb
Method of Disposal: Left in the Oakhurst Public Lending Library Box Thing

I am in desperate need of a new job.  I must be if I am blogging online about it.  That is a professional no no.  I just must say this last bit anyway, job hunting leads me to despair and questioning my life and trajectory, which makes me think of...Emily Dickinson.

This book is one of the first collections of poetry I ever owned.  I got it as a wee middle schooler, and I loved it through high school.  I cannot remember which poems I loved but, interestingly, this is the only poem bookmarked in the whole 300 + pages:

LOVE VI

If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
as housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.

If only centuries delayed,
I'd count them on  my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land.

If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I'd toss it yonder like a rind,
And Taste eternity.

But now, all ignorant of the length
Of time's uncertain wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.

 (pg 147)

In other exciting news, it is full of four leaf clovers I found in that same time period!  How cool is that?!

Lady Cottington's Fairy Album

Lady Cottington's Fairy Album
2002
Weight: 1.4 lbs
Method of Disposal: Leaving at Hodge Podge

Killing Fairies.  Left and Right.

 Here's your shout out.

Smoosh.

The Pin-Up

The Pin-Up: A Modest History by Mark Gabor
1987
Weight: 2.8 lbs
Method of Disposal: Giving to me dear friend, Jasmin

This book was a very special gift to me from a dear college friend who inherited it after a family member died in a terrible way.  She gave me quite a few of his books, and I cherish them.  There are some I will never get rid of.  She said she knew I would take care of them.  I want to spread them out, and I hope that, if she knew, she would approve of my sharing this one, for free, with the community.