You Know Not!

To Kill A Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Communist Manifesto - Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grendel - John Gardner
Fahrenheit 451
Red Badge of Courage
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice And Men
Brave New World
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Atlas Shrugged
A Separate Peace
The Scarlet Letter
The Handmaid’s Tale
Answer As A Man
Black Like Me

I’ll be getting most of these at BetterWorld.com. I told you about it the other day. I got the book I ordered today. It’s a hardback. Yeah, I’ll be a happily returning customer.

I saw an awesome site today, and since I’ve been thinking about adding books to this site, it seemed a bang-up way to do so.

This little picture tells a lot of the tale, but it’s a relatively small picture, so let me fill in a few more pertinent facts for you. BetterWorld.com is a used book store that’s making a difference. They’ve funded scholarships for girls in Vietnam, funded book delivery to universities in Africa and helped rebuild the library in New Orleans. All told, they’ve given over 2million dollars to advance literacy globe-wide. Books start at just $3.48, and you just have to check out their carbon free shipping!

Guess what I’m ordering??? Everything’s Eventual, the book 1408 appears in. It was worth the cost of the book, just to see the picture on the thank you page (smiling people in a room full of books!)

One of my all time favorite shows is Gunsmoke. You know it was a radio show long before it was on TV right? I still think Matt Dillon is hott, and the slightly risque Miss Kitty is all that and then some.

A few days ago, I listened to a few chaptersThe Capo’s Mistress by Richard Harris. It’s Harris’ first novel, and he’s offering a free audio download until April 27th, when the hardcopy will be available. Now, the hero of the book is another MD, in the person of Mike Driscoll, an alcoholic ex-cop with a soft spot for a pretty face. The beautiful lady in this case is not Miss Kitty, but Mary Carter. She’s run a-foul of the Mob in Las Vegas, and Mike valiantly tries to get her out of a jam. The book is fun in a campy sort of way, and the character development is pretty good. I felt like I had a good grasp of the main characters by the middle of chapter two.

So what does Ron Jeremy have to do with anything? I’m not telling. You’ll have get the book to find out. You can pre-order The Capo’s Mistress at Amazon, or download The Capo’s Mistress for free until April 27.