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A Really Big Show: A Visual History of The Ed Sullivan Show by John Leonard

Peanuts: A Golden Celebration: The Art and the Story of the World's Best-Loved Comic Strip by Charles Schulz

Caricature The Wit & Humor Of A Nation In Picture, Song & Story - Illustrated by America's Great Artists by Grant E. Hamilton

The Penguin Thelwell by Norman Thelwell

Dr. Kookie, You're Right! by Mike Royko

Much Ado About Me by Fred Allen

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Member: 55heaps

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TagsAmerican history (59), cartoons (56), humor (54), farming (50), memoir (42), how to (35), rural (30), comedy (28), nature (25), radio (24) — see all tags

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GroupsBookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill

Favorite authorsBob Artley, Clifford W. Ashley, Harry J. Boyle, J. Bryan, III, Bill Bryson, James Herriot, Steve Hopkins, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Ted Kooser, Ben Logan, Lee Lorenz, Gordon MacQuarrie, Peter McArthur, John McNulty, Mike Royko, Jean Shepherd, Frank Sullivan, George Vukelich, E. B. White, Garry Wills, William Zinsser (Shared favorites)

About meI was born old, sentimental, and prone to laugh. At 53 I've stopped apologizing for my taste in books. I enjoy them. End of story.

About my libraryIt started the day we ordered our first book from the Scholastic Books catalog in grade school. I could own my own books? I was hooked for life.

Of the approximately 2,000 books I own I've only entered a few hundred here. These are the books I enjoy owning the most.

Real nameAl

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Member sinceJan 26, 2009

Currently readingGilead by Marilynne Robinson

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Bob Artley's Book of Farm Chores: As Remembered by a Former Kid (Country Life) by Bob Artley

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Other people's dirt : a housecleaner's curious adventures by Louise Rafkin

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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

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North Country Notebook by George Vukelich

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism by Mark Twain

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Like I Was Sayin'... by Mike Royko

Hi Al, I have always wanted someone else to have read Mr. Wilmer, just so I could chat about it. Such a funny, odd, charming book, I love to reread it. The sly, adult references hidden in the simple story are so much fu. Mr. Wilmer's life is suddenly turned topsy turvy like magic and reality blended in a way to make the book sound like the fiction it is and also like a little biography of a real person.

posted by RobinGB at 11:40 pm (EST) on Sep 8, 2009

Hi, Al - Was looking at author Curtis Harnack and found your stuff. I only recently "discovered" Harnack. Just read/reviewed We Have All Gone Away and will begin his Persian Lions, Persian Lambs soon. I've written to Harnack. May be able to swap him a couple books for The Attic, his memoir sequel to WHAGA. I'm a Michigander myself, but love memoirs of all types. Recommend some to me, okay? Hello to Wisconsin. - Tim

posted by TimBazzett at 9:39 pm (EST) on Jul 11, 2009

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