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[ivyology]

Because I spent about seven hours in the library today, I think it is essential that I compose a list of the dearly favored deeply treasured books that made the final cut a month ago and now reside on the second shelf of the bookcase in my cozy/tiny/depends-on-what-mood-I'm-in room on the stuffy/charming/depends-on-what-mood-I'm-in fourth floor of Chapin, a la house booty central and seniors? what seniors? the red-brick darling of Center Campus:

Webster's New World College Dictionary.
Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet.
The Norton Anthology of Poetry.
Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning.
Loiuse Gluck, The Wild Iris.
Loiuse Bogan, Blue Estuaries.
Stephen Dunn, Necessary Angels.
Stephen Dunn, Different Hours.
Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels.
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle.
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body.
Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies.
Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places.
Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love.
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin.
A.S. Byatt, Possession.
Francis Burnett, A Little Princess.
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair.
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale.
J.D. Salinger, Franny & Zooey.
J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye.
Pamela Dean, Tam Lin.
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night.
Dorothy Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon.
Patricia McKillip, Winter Rose.
Kyoko Mori, Shizuko's Daughter.
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles.
A Writer's Reference.
Simon & Schuster Guide to Houseplants.

Because someday I will want to remember the essential things like this.