Kathleen Lynch - Loomis, CA (USA):

This is the book my father wrote
after we all left home. After he retired.
After he quit drinking. Before he died.
It's not finished. He typed "The Tree"
for a title, but crossed it out.

Alfred J Bruey - Jackson, MI (USA):

This book is an instruction book which is supposed to teach you
    how to use your computer. It is 1,100 pages long, covers only
    the basics, and is written in such a way that you will
    not understand any of it.
This book has internet access. It can surf the web and receive
    e-mail and if you send it unsolicited e-mail it will destroy your
    records in this library's computer so you will never be able to
    check out a book again.
This book is just right. The height, I mean. If stood on
    end, it will hold my bedroom window open while I insert the
    screen.
This book went on a diet and lost ten pages. The sad
    part is that this is a mystery novel and it lost the
    last ten pages. There are a lot of angry readers who are
    trying to find out who the murderer is.
This book used to be in a thrift shop but someone bought
    it for twenty five cents. Then he gave it to this library
    and took a $32.50 charitable contribution deduction on his income tax.

Nellie Wong - San Francisco, California (USA):

This book hooks me. Addiction by choice though Robert Downey is
    not so sure.
This book, this book. Will it ever get written? Will it
    explode? Will it blossom, wistaria, delicate unlike May West?
This book grabs onto the back of a crouching tiger, a hidden
    dragon on the back of a man's shirt. He says he
    bought it at Sears.
This book won't cure arthritis. Yoga isn't a come-on. Let
    it come, breathe life.
This book won't play pai gow or mah-jongg. This book, you
    see, is fickle, unsettling America. This book is waiting for Anna
    May Wong to come back to the silver screen.

Sarolina Shen Chang - Canton, Michigan (USA):

This book took a wrong turn on S. University, now ended on
    the shelf in the seldom-circulated-books library in Ann Arbor.
This book is under FBI witness protection program which does not cover
    spine surgery.
This book asked "Why Not?" when rejected for the third time by
    the parole committee.
This book is a cut-out. It charges 25 cents for standing
    with it.
This book is the bird that pecked open our mailbox and built
    a library in it.

Mary P. Elwell - Sunrise, Floridia (Broward County):

THIS BOOK is the language of Poetry to me, like music in
    the sound o water flowing over stones As the rumble of thunder
    in the sky The sounds of great winds in the forest The
    wide soaring of circles of the hawks and seagulls The deep mystery
    of a night full of stars And the endless rythme of the
    ocean tides THE changeing of seasons This language of Poetry deeply moving,
    Deeply felt.
music in the sound of water flowing over stones
As the rumble of thunder in the sky The sounds
of great winds in the forest The wide soaring
of the hawks and seagulls THe deep mystery of a
The endless rythme of the ocean tides The changeing seasons This language
    of Poetry deply moving
eng of seasons This language of Poetry, deeply
moving. Deeply felt....In this book.

Katherine Borghardt - Ottawa, KS (USA):

This book is filled with pictures
some pen and ink
some charcoal
some photographic
all black and white
grainy
life, in true color.

Sarah Scheuch - Prairie Village, Kansas (USA):

This book smells of the person who read it before.
This book my grandfather read to me before he died; everytime I
    open it he lives.
This book was the first book I read by myself.
This book was turned into a tape; that was turned into a
    movie; that ruined the book.
This book was banned from libraries; so I went out of my
    way to find it and read it. It was the best book
    I ever read!

Bob Miller - Kittery, Maine (USA):

Old books, dust filled with old words
waiting for desire, for thought, for resistance, for
feet up on the worn sofa
page turning page
Old words burning once again down the cobbled road

Denise Dunn - ABQ, NM (USA):

This book likes the suspense of not knowing who will finish it,
    or at what moment and knows it will not sleep through the
    ending, unlike a movie.
This book knows its time is getting short. It rushes around
    the library gathering voices it might have missed.
This book stands at a great height and reads itself aloud to
    the universe.
This book is full of light and shadow, niches, heights and underwater
    caverns, and great blasts of rich ancient breath. Stand back.
    Jump in.

Kathleen Keller - St. Paul, MN (USA):

This book was the first finished in a weekend.

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