Welcome to a haven full of manuscripts, diskettes, and especially books. Alcoves exist aplenty for curiosities and stuffed animals. Feel free to explore the files! "Television" counts favorites from Rupert Holmes' sensational series about radio station WENN to Disney's copyboy-turned-reporter, Gallegher. "Books" contains poetry, book lists, and pages on different series books and the best children's magazine ever published. Finally, the "Times and Seasons" folder ranges from the celebration of Christmas--with my mom's terrific wine biscuit recipe!--to nostalgic essays about the people and places of the Rhode Island of my youth. Tired? Curl up in that big papasan chair with a good book, the kaliedoscope, or a soft pillow! Oh, and if the budgie lands on your head, don't forget to give him a kiss!

         On the Shelves: Some of My Favorite Books

     Fiction

• Anything Madeleine L'Engle writes (although I found The Love Letters rather tedious)--her religious nonfiction is especially good)
• Issues of the old St. Nicholas magazine
• Kate Seredy's The Open Gate (her other novels, too)
• Red Sky at Morning, Richard Bradford
• Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy, The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment
• Susan Conant's Holly Winter mysteries
• Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody mysteries
• Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries, and her William Monk/Hester Latterly/Oliver Rathbone books
• The Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers
• Earlene Fowler's Benni Harper mysteries
• Victoria Thompson's Sarah Brandt "gaslight" mysteries
• Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries
• Any Albert Payson Terhune collie book
• Most of Mercedes Lackey's novels, especially the "Arrows" trilogy/other Valdemar books, Sacred Ground, Diana Tregarde stories (Note: SERRA novels emphatically not recommended to those especially sensitive to portrayals of child abuse)
• Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris' Adept series and Kurtz's Lammas Night
• Nick O'Donohue's "Crossroads" series featuring veterinarian B. J. Vaughan
• The Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling
• John Verney's Callendar family books
• Earl Hamner's Spencer's Mountain, The Homecoming, and You Can't Get There from Here
• Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy
• Rupert Holmes' Where the Truth Lies and Swing
• Joe David Brown's Addie Pray
  
• Louisa May Alcott's girls' books, especially Eight Cousins
• A Christmas Carol
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and its sequel
       Nonfiction
• Books about the English language, including those by Mario Pei, William Safire, and Richard Lederer
• Gladys Taber's Stillmeadow books
• The Golden Age of Radio
• Books about the homefront and journalism during World War II
• Books concerning history/celebration of Christmas (not recipes/Christmas crafts)
• And various books about HTML markup language and WordPerfect!