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“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.” ~ Arthur Christopher Benson

September 2, 2012

The Bucket List Is Getting Longer!

A few more books were added to the bucket list today. These are
  1. Go Ask Alice (Anonymous)
  2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)
  3. The Great Mortality (John Kelly)
  4. The Milagro Beanfield War (John Nichols)
Link to updated list: http://mybucketofbooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/julias-bucket-list-of-books.html

The first two are 60's/70's books; a good representation of those years. I read them both in the early to mid-70's. The first, Go Ask Alice, was really profound for me. I was in junior high and very naive at the time. My daughter recently read the book, and I was gratified to find out she enjoyed the book too. I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull when I was 12. I remember reading it at a party my parents went to (and took us kids along) and listening to the soundtrack of Hair, the Rolling Stones and a few other big names that date me. It was fairly philosophical and metaphorical.