Books That Have Shaped My Thoughts


Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus; illustrations by Jose Aruego

The Babar Series by Jean Brunhoff

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

Half Magic and any other of the 7 magic kid stories by Edward Eager

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel

Night by Elie Wiesel

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Unabridged by Lewis Carroll

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina

Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume

Secrets of the Shopping Mall by Richard Peck

A Nun in the Closet by Dorothy Gilman

A Boys Own Story by Edmund White

Stranger in a Strange Land and many others by Robert Heinlein

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Jitterbug Perfume and others by Tom Robbins

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Tales of the City and others by Armistead Maupin

Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus

The Pern Series by Anne McCaffrey

The Company Series by Kage Baker



Songs That Echo In My Head


Wayfaring Stranger sung by Mom with her guitar

Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel

Nightswimming and others by REM

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart

In My Life and others by The Beatles

The Last Supper and the entire Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack

Anthem and the entire Chess soundtrack

Here Comes The Rain Again and others by Eurythmics (and Annie solo too)

Under the Milky Way by The Church

Wuthering Heights and others by Kate Bush

Ouija Board and others by that charming man

Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants

Kinda I Want To and anything else off of Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails

9th Symphony - Choral and others by Beethoven

Into The Woods by Steven Sondheim




If you're really curious beyond these random facts, you can go to the Island of Misfit Links for some ego trips of yesteryear.

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