Carrie VanZandt - Kansas City, MO (USA):
This book was adopted from a flea market orphanage.
In my home this book and I enjoyed many hours together -
I fed it as it fed me, but today - a sale
day, this book sits
among others as it waits and watches hungrily in my garage,
searching for its birth mother.
Sue Russell - Bryn Mawr, PA (USA):
This book took me out to lunch and ordered beet borscht.
This book was broken by my love.
This book was lost on the 8th floor inpatient unit.
This book was found by the book gods.
I waited my whole life for this book.
Chris Stratton - Appleton, Wisconsin (USA):
This book is a substitute high chair at family feasts at grandma's
house. Many washings have warped the yellow cover, but some stains
remain. Here is the cranberry splotch from little Teddy's first time
at the big table. This shiny place is Sara's legacy, when
her insistent but slippery baby hands dropped the butter dish upside down.
Emily's rhythmic spoon left these dents in the edges. Swollen pages
made it lopsided for awhile, until Adam's
left-handedness evened it up again the day grandma celebrated Janie's adoption by
having all the grandchildren over for lemonade and sugar cookies. I
asked grandma to leave this family heirloom to me in her will.
mike dunford - bronx, new york (USA):
this big blue book is full of true confessions but not yours
or mine
the book lying on its side shows one how to make love
better,
its pictures have been torn out.
these books are always damp, when i read them i cry.
Gordon Hilgers - Dallas, TX (USA):
This book I cast to the skies will shatter the face of
the moon.
This book will fall through the clouds like a wounded phoenix
Loosening the scales from all our eyes, though it's only a book,
For this book, I will sleep in the gutters in the center
of the city,
Listening to the roosters wake the sun with songs from this book.
Lisa Cohen - New York, New York (USA):
This book is the one I taught to a future doctor, a
future rapist, and a future priest,
to the future dropout and the future Yale graduate, to the artist
and the construction worker, the poet and the MBA,
Ann Garbett - Danville, VA (USA):
I borrowed this book from my favorite professor, I keep it with
my treasures. Someday I will read it.
Ginny Connors - W. Hartford, CT (USA):
"It kept me on the edge of my seat!" exclaimed one student,
and another added, "If you want to know what happens next...
read the book!" But I don't think either one of them actually
read it
and the movie version hasn't come out yet.
Deb Warner - Chapel Hill, NC (USA):
Why you no wanna read this book? This book save your soul,
make your teeth grow straight, maybe even cure cancer.
Or maybe not. Maybe you be chosen, maybe not.
Why you no wanna read this book? Your life so fine
you don't need no help?
So Okay, just BE that way. It be your loss...
Ginger Murchison - Atlanta, Georgia (USA):
This book’s page 50 taught me the word "Zerrissenheit!"
(my “torn-to-pieces-hood”). I’ll never finish it;
I don’t want to know I’m supposed to learn to live with
it.
Chris Stratton - Appleton, Wisconsin (USA):
This book was written by a 103-year-old lady pediatrician-mother
who still practices: sees children in her home office, listens
to new mothers, dispenses modern ideas along with practical advice that really
works,
and builds confidence and trust in all her people.
Deb Warner - Chapel Hill, NC (USA):
I lost this very book overboard off Key West 10 years ago,
only to find it at O'Hare airport yesterday.
There are certain very interesting annotations in my handwriting
that I never made.
Whatever you do, don't read page---------
mike dornan - scottsdale, az (USA):
these books are meant for walkin', and that's just what they'll do
the letter "e" occurs nowhere in this book
Rhonda Pettit - Cincinnati, Ohio (USA):
This book took language away from its mother and father.
Stephanie - Franklin, WI (USA):
This book helped me avoid being eaten by my pet parranas.
In chapter 12, this book taught me how to hot-wire a car.
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