If You Give a Moose a Muffin

If You Give a Moose a Muffin  by Laura Joffe Numeroff
1991
Weight: 9.9 oz
Method of Disposal: Giving to Tracy

Tracy missed out on the whole If You Give a Mouse a Cookie craze, but I quote it to her when it seems applicable.  Hearing a story about someone at school.  Telling a story about trying to help someone at work. 

One day I was riding back from a long, painful trip to animal control.  Trace was having a rough day too and she sent me a text, in all seriousness, that asked me what was that saying.  "If you give a pig a pancake..."  I cannot remember exactly what she wrote, but it was something along the lines of "he will throw it in your face."  Had me laughing the rest of the way.

I have been hanging out around the house today, trying to get all of her birthday goodies together and ready for her this weekend, and I was very excited to find this book on my shelves.  She will finally get to see it live and in person.  I imagine after flipping through it, it will be donated, but I think she should own it once, if only for a moment.  Happy Easter Sunday Birthday, Bestie!




 

The Second City

The Second City: Backstage at the World's Greatest Theater  by Sheldon Patinkin
2000
Weight: 3.4 lbs
Method of Disposal: Donating

In high school I was smitten with the theater teacher.  Its true.  I never had a class with her, though I had one with her brother years before (does that count?!).  I really have no idea how it started or where/when I first saw her.  It was kinda a joke and kinda serious.  Sometimes, I would skip class and go to hers.  I do not think she ever noticed that I was not suppose to be there and, if she did, she never said anything. 

At one point, I did semi-date-ish someone in her class, and I would watch them acting on stage, as I hid in the shadows of the back row of the theater.  I would have been all over the place then, hormones raging, I am sure. 

I would vie to be the one to give her a back rub some days and, other days, I would just go to french class.  Obviously, I never convinced her, and I mostly hid from her when I was not rubbing her shoulders.  I do not think we were ever properly introduced, and I sure as hell never told her my name.  Thinking back on it, I feel sorry for her.  How disturbing to have someone so young intrested in you and, believe me, I was not the only one, haha.

SUPERFUDGE

Superfudge Judy Blume
1980
Weight: 10 oz
Method of Disposal: Leaving in Joe's in EAV

I loved Superfudge growing up!  I was so excited when I found this edition.  It is the one at the top, third from the left, in the image above.  It smells and looks like a book from the eighties.  How exciting.  It also came from the library of Becci Curry who, acoording to a Google search, might be a doctor, might do real estate, might have been married for 19 years.  How exciting. 

The Rover

The Rover Aphra Behn
1997
Weight: 5.8 oz
Method of Disposal: Leaving at Joe's in EAV

 

I went to an all-women's school and Aphra Behn was on several of my syllabi.  I could never get into reading her work, but I could respect her immensely for doing it in a time when it would be difficult to get paid for being a writer, much less for being a woman writer.  As Virginia Woolf stated, Woolf wrote, "All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."  Okay, I may not feel that strongly, but I imagine I have a lot of women's graves I need to be throwing flowers on.  So many before me.   

Mommy Knows Worst

Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice  James Lileks
2005
Weight: 1 lb
Method of Disposal: Leaving at Joe's in EAV

This book is pretty hilarious.  When I was growing up, my own mother was collecting snippets from various old magazines and books to make something very similar to this about the treatment of women.  You would not believe some of the stuff she uncovered!

In this book, there are ads encouraging women to wash their nipples with boric acid before nursing, to use laxatives with the whole family to give them more energy, and to keep their baby's bowels warm.  It is worth a looksee.