The library is one of my favourite places. Reading has been a passion of mine for my entire life, and now that the library has CD's such as NIN and Dead Can Dance I am there even more often. This has led to problems, such as the $20 in overdue fines I just had to pay, so I am going to try to manage what I have checked out at a particualar time by keeping a record here. Right now I have:

CD's-Mazzy Star: So Tonight That I Might See

This Ascension-Sever

This Mortal Coil-It'll End in Tears

UB40-Labour of Love

Books-Keeping Women and Children Last-America's War on the Poor

by Ruth Sidel

This book is a good examination of the scapegoating of welfare recipients and single parent families, with a focus on women

Becoming Anna

by Anna J. Michener

A story of a 16-year-old girl's lifetime of abuse and her strength in overcoming her situation

Comics-Raw

With excerpts from Maus and Sue Coe's description of British slaughterhouse horrour this is one of my favourites

The Reticent Heart by Gilbert Hernandez

Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez weave stories that are true to life and visually pleasing. The British band Love and Rockets named themselves after a comic by Jaime.

Cheap Novelties by Ben Katchor is a tale of the pleasures of urban decay

Mind Riot is a collection of comics about different facets of adolescence.

Books I own that I have read recently-The Escape Artist by Judith Katz takes place in Poland and Buenos Aires in the early 1900's. Interspersed with yiddish it is a story of a young girl struggling for freedom from a life of prostitution.

Children of the Holocaust by Helen Epstein is the only book I have found about the effects of the Holocaust on children of survivors. It gave me an entirely new perspective on the Holocaust and the stories are fascinating.

A Hundred Things Japanese examines Japanese culture, language, customs, and lifestyle.