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books read 2009

January 15, 2009
Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton: The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever to be Rumored About Around New York
By J.P. Donleavy

January 20, 2009
How It Ended
By Jay McInerney

January 29, 2009
Haiku U.
By David Bader

February 8, 2009
Persuasion
By Jane Austen

Febraury 19, 2009
Story of My Life
By Jay McInerney

February 26, 2009
Mediations in An Emergency
By Frank O’Hara

March 27, 2009
Brightness Falls
By Jay McInerney

April 8, 2009
The Great Gatsby
By Francis Scott Fitzgerald

April 19, 2009
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates

May 12, 2009
Schultz
By J.P. Donleavy

June 6, 2009
Are You Listening Rabbi Low?
By J.P. Donleavy.

June 22, 2009
Shampoo Planet
By Douglas Coupland

July 1, 2009
Success
By Martin Amis

July 12, 2009
The Rachel Papers
By Martin Amis

August 15, 2009
The Average American Male
By Chad Kultgen

September 22, 2009
Tales of Ordinary Madness
By Charles Bukowski

October 22, 2009
The Ginger Man
By J.P. Donleavy

December 19, 2009
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By Raymond Carver



to do doot tood doto oodt oodtd tomorrow

tomorrow:

first thing6:30 alarm goes off and i wake up and stay vertical (_oops, didn’t wake up ‘til 7ish)
6:30-7:30 breakfast, fuck around on internet, pooping and reading,pick out outfit/iron if needed, put on walking clothes
7:30-8:00 the morning walk with h
8:00-8:20 shower (shower won’t take 20 minutes, but there is some prep time involved)
8:20-8:35 lounge around in towel, apply lotion, get dressed

8:35-8:45 pack lunch!
8:45-9:00 second guess outfit
9:00 off to work!

at work
9:30 start time
1 write Reid Sweet 16 order
2 finish writing up Cotillion order
3- order stock for Trinh wedding

4- go through Prints Well via phone tomorrow
5- The Fun Call tomorrow
6 finish bapstism assembly someone else took care of this when I was in my appt.
7- make sure woloson photocard assembly gets underway

hopefully that will all be done by noon: nope
-12:00 Friedlander Bat Mitzvah appt.-moved to Weds
-afternoonish – Cotillion lady appt.-never showed up
-later afternoonish Hopkins Women’s Club invite appt.-this appt went very very well
sometime Krishna wedding invite w/ Hannah we discussed it

overall:
BLOG!
purge bride’s files (it’s been 2 months…)
file all wedding completed paperwork
update window with stationery for sale
finish cleaning out sample boxes (I started this task in June—ha!)

after work
6:30ish arrive home
6:30-7:00 general tidying up
7:00-7:30 dinner
7:30-10:30 writing session with H We’re just going to watch debates etc.
10:30-12:00 TV veg time with Hubby
12:00-whenever… fall asleep reading!



to do:

SATURDAY/SUNDAY:
finish cleaning apt for brunch tomorrow
make anniversary card for bro and wife
grocery store for ingredients
cooking prep for brunch
catch up on thank you notes (p.m.)

LONG-TERM:
change name at SS and DMV (only taking me a year)
proceed name change on credit cards, banks etc.
update address with voter registration
order calling cards and stationery
design session with h
listen excessively to talking heads
winter clothes to dry-cleaners/tailors
finish updating book list with the nonfiction stuff
cat to vet to catch up on shots
frame/hang pics from wedding
start xmas gift making/shopping



A List of Books I Own: Part I

Fiction, Journals/Notebooks, Essays, Memoirs & Correspondence
Children’s Lit
Literature Anthologies
Poetry
Literary Magazines
Plays and Screenplays

Fiction, Journals/Notebooks, Essays, Memoirs & Correspondence (Alphabetical By Author)

1. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Author Unknown
2. The Rest, at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams
3. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Douglas Adams
4. Watership Down Richard Adams
5. A .38 Special and a Broken Heart Jonas Agee
6. Ragged Dick Horatio Alger
7. Brick Lane Monica Ali
8. Alentejo Blue Monica Ali
9. Chuck Dugan is AWOL Eric Chase Anderson
10. Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson (Norton Critical Edition)
11. Persuasion Jane Austen
12. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
13. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
14. Girl Talk Julianna Baggott
15. The Miss America Family Julianna Baggott
16. The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks Russell Banks
17. Trailer Park Russell Banks
18. Reruns Jonathan Baumbach
19. Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable Samuel Beckett
20. Humbolt’s Gift Saul Bellow
21. Farhenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
22. Villette Charlotte Bronte
23. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
24. Year of Wonders (with personalized autograph) Geraldine Brooks
25. The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
26. Post Office Charles Bukowski
27. Factotum Charles Bukowski
28. Women Charles Bukowski
29. Pulp Charles Bukowski
30. The Captain Charles Bukowski
31. Tales of Ordinary Madness Charles Bukowski
32. South of No North Charles Bukowski
33. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin UK Edition) Anthony Burgess
34. A Clockwork Orange (Norton US Edition) Anthony Burgess
35. A Clockwork Orange (Norton US Edition) Anthony Burgess (second copy)
36. The Doctor is Sick Anthony Burgess
37. A Vision of Battlements Anthony Burgess
38. The Burroughs Reader William S. Burroughs
39. The Yage Letters Redux William S. Burroughs
40. My Education William S. Burroughs
41. Junky William S. Burroughs
42. Queer William S. Burroughs
43. Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs (The Restored Text Edition)
44. The Cat Inside William S. Burroughs
45. If on a winter’s night a traveler Italo Calvino
46. The Rebel Albert Camus
47. The Stranger Albert Camus
48. The Grass Harp Truman Capote
49. Cathedral Raymond Carver
50. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
51. Oh What a Paradise It Seems John Cheever
52. The Best Stories of Anton Chekhov
53. The Awakening Kate Chopin
54. 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
55. The Other Woman Collette
56. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
57. Nostromo Joseph Conrad
58. The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
59. Robinson Caruso Daniel Defoe
60. White Noise Don DeLillo
61. Underworld Don DeLillo
62. The Prick of Noon Peter DeVries
63. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
64. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
65. Deliverance James Dickey
66. Gould Stephen Dixon
67. The Ginger Man J.P. Donleavy
68. A Fairy Tale of New York J.P. Donleavy
69. The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazaar B. J.P. Donleavy
70. The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman J.P. Donleavy
71. A Singular Man J.P. Donleavy
72. Leila J.P. Donleavy
73. Meet My Maker, the Mad Molecule J.P. Donleavy
74. The Onion Eaters J.P. Donleavy
75. The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York J.P. Donleavy
76. Are You Listening Rabbi Low J.P. Donleavy
77. The 42nd Parallel John Dos Passos
78. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
79. Notes from the Underground and The Double Fyodor Dostoyevsky
80. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
81. The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B Du Bois (IN CAR)
82. From Rockaway Jill Eisenstadt
83. Middlemarch George Eliot
84. American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
85. Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis
86. The Informers Bret Easton Ellis
87. Less than Zero Bret Easton Ellis
88. Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis
89. The Rules of Attraction Bret Easton Ellis
90. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
91. The Big Nowhere James Elroy
92. The Crack Up F. Scott Fitzgerald
93. Flappers and Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald
94. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner Library Contemporary Classics Edition)
95. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald (A newer Scribner edition)
96. This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
98. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
99. A Passage to India E.M. Forster
100. Nickel Mountain John Gardner
101. Fat City Leonard Gardner
102. Strait is the Gate Andre Gide
103. The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novella Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
104. Lord of the Flies William Golding
105. Geronimo Rex Barry Hannah
106. The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
107. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
108. Catch-22 Joseph Heller
109. Closing Time Joseph Heller
110. Something Happened Joseph Heller
111. Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man Joseph Heller
112. A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
113. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
114. The Garden of Eden Ernest Hemingway
115. In Our Time Ernest Hemingway
116. A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
117. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway (Collier Edition)
118. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway (Macmillan Edition)
119. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
120. To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway
121. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
122. The Complete Short Stories Ernest Hemingway
123. Siddhartha Herman Hesse
124. High Fidelity Nick Hornsby
125. How to be Good Nick Hornsby
126. Les MisÈrables Victor Hugo
127. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan Aldous Huxley
128. Antic Hay Aldous Huxley
129. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
130. Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley
131. The Bostonians Henry James
132. Selected Short Stories Henry James
133. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories Henry James
134. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson
135. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce (Bantam Classics Edition)
136. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce (Penguin Classics Edition)
137. Dubliners James Joyce
138. The Portable James Joyce (Includes Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Collected Poems and excerpts from Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake) James Joyce
139. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Franz Kafka
140. On the Road Jack Kerouac
141. Book of Sketches Jack Kerouac
142. The Dharma Bums Jack Kerouac
143. The Subterraneans Jack Kerouac
144. Mexico City Blues Jack Kerouac
145. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
146. Lucy Jamaica Kincaid
147. Sam the Cat and Other Stories Matthew Klam
148. A Separate Peace John Knowles
149. The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
150. Quicksand and Passing Nella Larsen
151. Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
152. Women in Love D.H. Lawrence
153. Lady Chatterly’s Lover D.H. Lawrence
154. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
155. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy Book 1) C.S. Lewis
156. Perelandra (Space Trilogy Book 2) C.S. Lewis
157. Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy Book 3) C.S. Lewis
158. Babbit Sinclair Lewis
159. The Best Short Stories of Jack London Jack London
160. Cannibals and Christians Norman Mailer
161. The Nature of Monsters Ronald Damien Malfi
162. Death in Venice Thomas Mann
163. Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
164. Snow White, Russian Red Dorota Mastowsky
165. Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt
166. ‘Tis Frank McCourt
167. That Night Alice McDermott
168. Bright Lights, Big City Jay McInerney
169. Great Short Works of Herman Melville Herman Melville
170. Moby Dick Herman Melville
171. Time Out of Mind: The Diaries of Leonard Michaels Leonard Michaels
172. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
173. Jazz Toni Morrison
174. Ada Vladimir Nabokov
175. Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov
176. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
177. Nabokov’s Dozen Vladimir Nabokov
178. Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
179. The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
180. Glory Vladimir Nabokov
181. Lectures on Literature Vladimir Nabokov
182. McTeague Frank Norris
183. The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
184. The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
185. Nineteen Eighty-Four (Original 1949 American Edition) George Orwell
186. 1984 (Commemorative 1984 Edition with Introduction by Walter Cronkite) George Orwell
187. 1984 George Orwell (Signet Classics, Loaner)
188. Animal Farm (Signet Classic with 1954 introduction by C.M. Woodhouse) George Orwell
189. Animal Farm (Signet Classic with preface by Russell baker and 1954 introduction by C.M. Woodhouse) George Orwell
190. Burmese Days George Orwell
191. A Clergyman’s Daughter George Orwell
192. A Collection of Essays George Orwell
193. Coming Up for Air George Orwell
194. Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell
195. Essays George Orwell
196. Homage to Catalonia George Orwell
197. Keep the Aspidistra Flying George Orwell
198. The Orwell Reader (Essays) George Orwell
199. The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell
200. Choke Chuck Palahniuk
201. Diary Chuck Palahniuk
202. Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk
203. Lullaby (with personalized autograph) Chuck Palahniuk
204. Survivor Chuck Palahniuk
205. Chicken Inspector No. 23 S.J. Perelman
206. Sideways Rex Picket
207. Turbulence Jia Pingwa
208. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
209. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath
210. The Tell Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe
211. Arch of Triumph Erich Maria Remarque
212. All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
213. Good Morning, Midnight Jean Rhys
214. Portnoy’s Complaint Phillip Roth
215. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
216. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown Books Paperback Edition)
217. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown Books Tradeback Edition)
218. Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
219. Nine Stories J.D. Salinger
220. Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction J.D. Salinger
221. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Velvet David Sedaris
222. Frankenstein Mary Shelley
223. Joy in the Morning Betty Smith
224. I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
225. C/O Postmaster Corporal Thomas R. St. George
226. Cannery Row John Steinbeck
227. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
228. The Pearl John Steinbeck
229. Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck
230. Travels with Charley: In Search of America John Steinbeck
231. Suicide Bonde Darcey Steinke
232. Dracula Bram Stoker
233. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
234. Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray
235. Henry Esmond William Makepeace Thackeray
236. Walden Henry David Thoreau
237. Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman Hunter S. Thompson
238. The Rum Diary Hunter S. Thompson
239. The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkein
240. The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkein
241. The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkein
242. Devil in the Details Jennifer Traig
243. Cousin Henry Anthony Trollope
244. Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
245. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain
246. Pudd’nhead Wilson Mark Twain
247. The Gilded Age Mark Twain
248. The Poorhouse Fair John Updike
249. Bagombo Snuff Box Kurt Vonnegut
250. Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut
251. Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
252. Gal•pagos Kurt Vonnegut
253. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut
254. Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut
255. A Man Without a Country Kurt Vonnegut
256. Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut
257. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
258. All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren
259. Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear Katharine Weber
260. The Music Lesson Katharine Weber
261. The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
262. Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
263. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
264. From Death to Morning Thomas Wolfe
265. The Bonfire of the Vanities Thomas Wolfe
266. You Can’t Go Home Again Thomas Wolfe
267. Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
268. To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
269. The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf
270. Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
271. The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
272. More Now Again: A Memoir of Addiction Elizabeth Wurtzel

Children’s Lit

273. Sounder William H. Armstrong
274. Otherwise Known as Shelia the Great Judy Blume
275. The Wonderful Flight to Mushroom Planet Eleanor Cameron
276. James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
277. Mr. Pig and Sonny Too Lillian Hoban
278. Bernadette’s Busy Morning Ila Hodgson
279. Angelina and Alice Katharine Holabird
280. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 1)
281. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2 copies, same edition)
282. Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 2) C.S. Lewis
283. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 3) C.S. Lewis
284. The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 4) C.S. Lewis
285. The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 5) C.S. Lewis
286. Frog and Toad Together (Paperback Edition) Arnold Lobel
287. Frog and Toad Together (Hardback Edition) Arnold Lobel
288. The Giant Jam Sandwich John Vernon Lord, Janet Burroway
289. The Giver Lois Lowry
290. Beauty by Robin McKinley
291. Anne of Green Gables Book 1 L.M. Montgomery
292. Anne of Avonlea Book 2 L.M. Montgomery
293. Anne of the Island Book 3 L.M. Montgomery
294. Anne of Windy Poplars Book 4 L.M. Montgomery
295. Anne’s House of Dreams Book 5 L.M. Montgomery
296. Anne of Ingleside Book 6 L.M. Montgomery
297. Rainbow Valley Book 7 L.M. Montgomery
298. Rilla of Ingleside Book 8 L.M. Montgomery
299. Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell
300. Me Too Iguana Jacquelyn Reinach
301. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 1 The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket
302. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 2 The Reptile Room Lemony Snicket
303. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 3 The Wide Window Lemony Snicket
304. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 4 The Miserable Mill Lemony Snicket
305. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 5 The Austere Academy Lemony Snicket
306. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 6 The Ersatz Elevator Lemony Snicket
307. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 7 The Vile Village Lemony Snicket
308. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 8 The Hostile Hospital Lemony Snicket
309. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 9 The Carnivorous Carnival Lemony Snicket
310. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 10 The Slippery Slope Lemony Snicket
311. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 11 The Grim Grotto Lemony Snicket
312. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 12 The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket
313. A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 13 The End Lemony Snicket
314. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
315. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor
316. Charlotte’s Web E.B. White

Literature Anthologies (Grouped by Type)

317. The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Fourth Edition
318. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Fifth Edition
319. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Fifth Edition, The Major Authors
320. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Seventh Edition, Volume 1
321. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Seventh Edition, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
322. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Seventh Edition, Volume 2
323. The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2005
324. The Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses 2003
325. The Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses 2005
326. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
327. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004
328. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005
329. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
330. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
331. The Seagull Reader
332. Best American Short Stories
333. The Greatest American Short Stories
334. Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway
335. Best New American Voices 2005
336. Best New American Voices 2007
337. Best New America Voices 2008
338. Great French Short Stories
339. Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature

Poetry (Alphabetical by Author)

340. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, Second Edition
341. Modern Poems: An Introduction to Poetry
342. Great Poems by American Women: An Anothology
343. The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
344. The Metaphysical Poets
345. English Romantic Verse
346. The Pocket Book of Verse
347. Selected Poems Margaret Atwood
348. Blood Sugar Nicole Blackman
349. Songs of Innocence William Blake
350. Songs of Experience William Blake
351. At the Edge of Beauty Gary Blankenburg
352. Selected Poems Robert Bly
353. Byron’s Complete Poetical Works George Gordon, Lord Byron
354. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson
355. The Wasteland and other Poems T.S. Eliot
356. Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems Ralph Waldo Emerson
357. The Poetry of Robert Frost Robert Frost
358. Rose Li-Young Lee
359. What Work Is Phillip Levine
360. Selected Poetry and Prose of Poe Edgar Allen Poe
361. Selected Poetry Alexander Pope
362. The Sonnets: Poems of Love William Shakespeare
363. The Works of P.B. Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley
364. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
365. Selected Poems William Butler Yeats
366. Selected Poems William Carlos Williams

Literary Magazines (Grouped by Publication Date)

367. Ironwood 6 (1975)
368. Mariner College of Marin (1976)
369. Piecework Bentley College (1995)
370. American Literary American University (2004)
371. Grub Street Towson University (2004)
372. Vagabond Goucher College (2005)

Plays and Screenplays (Alphabetical by Author, then Title)

373. Six Great Modern Plays
374. The Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
375. Endgame and Act Without Words Samuel Beckett
376. The Cocktail Party T.S. Eliot
377. Ghosts and Other Plays Henrik IbsenDr. Faustus Christopher Marlowe
378. After the Fall Arthur Miller
379. The Iceman Cometh Eugene O’Neill
380. Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw
381. Plays (Contains Man and Superman, Arms and the Man, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Candida) George Bernard Shaw
382. Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
383. Coriolanus William Shakespeare
384. Hamlet William Shakespeare
385. Henry V William Shakespeare
386. Macbeth William Shakespeare
387. A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare
388. Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare
389. The Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare (Bevington, 5th Edition)



A List of J. P. Donleavy Books I Have Already Obtained, in the Order in which I Read Them
  • The Ginger Man (Novel) Grove Press, New York
  • A Fairy Tale of New York (Novel) The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
  • The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (Novel) Grove Press, New York
  • The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman (Novel) The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
  • A Singular Man (Novel) The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
  • Leila (Novel) Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence (First Trade Edition)
  • Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule (Short Stories) Penguin Books UK
  • The Onion Eaters (Novel) Dell, New York
  • The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms (Novella) St. Martin’s Griffin, New York

(Note: I have obtained Are You Listening Rabbi Löw, but have not yet read it. It is a sequel to Schultz which is on the former list of books to be obtained.)



A List of J. P. Donleavy Books I Must Obtain and Read Straightaway
  • The Ginger Man (Play) Random House, New York 1961
  • Fairy Tales of New York (Play), Penguin, Random House, New York 1961
  • A Singular Man (Play) The Bodley Head, UK 1965
  • The Saddest Summer of Samuel S (Novella) Delacorte Press, New York 1966
  • The Unexpurgated Code… (Nonfiction) Delacorte Press, New York 1975
  • Schultz (Novel) Delacorte Press, New York 1979
  • De Alfonce Tennis… (a Legend) Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1984
  • J.P. Donleavy’s Ireland… (Nonfiction) Viking, NY, 1986
  • A Singular Country (Nonfiction) Peterborough – Ryan, UK 1989
  • That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman (Novel) Viking, London 1990
  • The History of the Ginger Man (Nonfiction) Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1994
  • An Author and His Image (Collected Short Pieces-Nonfiction) Viking, London 1997
  • Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton (Novel) Thomas Dunn-St. Martins Press, New York


to do: the sunday edition

K, G and H come over for hors d’ouevres and drinks this evening. Meaning Hubby and I have a lot to do! H is also coming over around 3 to pitch in.

  • -finish washing dishes-
  • -do a lot of laundry-
  • -clean my bathroom-
  • try to get taylor to clean is
  • -litterbox overhaul-
  • -fill ‘to goodwill’ bag-
  • -reorganize my mobile closet-
  • declutter and make pretty junky front hall
  • -go to grocery and buy some food- T is doing this as we speak!
  • -make some food for everyone- (I spooned and plated, at least)
  • -if time left, do some organizing!- socks and closet and a plan coming together for living room and bedroom

If i get most of this crossed off, I will contribute to lots of open goals!



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