MISCmedia for 6/13/00
What You're Reading

OF THE LAST100 Amazon.com purchases from people who linked from the search box on my site, only 16 were items specifically mentioned anywhere on the site.

This means:

(1) many of you are choosing to help support MISCmedia by making your Amazon buys thru this site's link, and

(2) I might not have the influence on your reading/viewing/listening habits I've liked to imagine having.

Nevertheless, few of these items were at all sucky, proving at least that many MISCmedia readers have quite good taste indeed.

Herewith, a few of the things you're using this site to attain, in no particular order:

• Robert A.M. Stern, Houses
• James Allen (Editor), Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
• Paul Henry Lang, Music in Western Civilization
• Hazel Martell, Imperial China, 221 B.C. to A.D. 1294
• Julian Rios, Kitaj: Pictures and Conversations
• The Cornel West Reader
• Bruce Wasserstein, Big Deal: 2000 and Beyond
• Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
• Jon Schueler, The Sound of Sleat
• Diane Mariechild and Marcelina Martin, Lesbian Sacred Sexuality
• Robert Friedman (Editor), Life Millennium: The 100 Most Important Events and People of the Past 1000 Years
• John Sutherland, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?: Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction
• Donald J. Grout, The History of Western Music (Study Guide)
• Vladmir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
• Tom King, The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood
• Ana Suffredini (Editor), French Complete Course (Living Languge Complete Courses. Cassette Edition)
• David Crosby and David Bender, Stand and Be Counted: Making Music, Making History: The Dramatic Story of the Artists and Causes That Changed America
• David Guterson, East of the Mountains
• Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
• Jack Brehm and Pete Nelson, That Others May Live: The True Story of a Pj, a Member of America's Most Daring Rescue Force
• Ray Kroc and Robert Anderson, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
• Susan Blu and Molly Ann Mullin, Word of Mouth: A Guide to Commercial and Animation Voice-Over Excellence
• David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Joy Hakim, All the People (A History of Us, Book 10)
• Selected Poems of Max Jacob
• Shirley George Frazier, How to Start a Home-Based Gift Basket Business
• Dennis and Barbara Rainey, Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Early Teen Years
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, The Woman That Never Evolved
• Jay Silverman, Elaine Hughes, amd Diana Roberts Wienbroer, Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers
• Suzanne Williams, Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China
• Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune
• Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter, Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor & Middle Class Do Not!
• Douglas, Naomi, and Doug Moseley, Making Your Second Marriage a First-Class Success
• James A. Warren, Cold War: The American Crusade Against the Soviet Union and World Communism, 1945-1990
• Ed Emberley, Great Thumbprint Drawing Book
• James R. Flowers, The Incredible Internet Guide for Trekkers: The Complete Guide to Everything Star Trek Online
• Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
• Eva Hoffman, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews
• Dean Young, First Course in Turbulence
• Allan Combs and Mark Holland, Synchronicity: Science, Myth, and the Trickster
• Barbara Kingsolver, Homeland and Other Stories
• Bernardo J. Carducci, The Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk
• Nathan Englander, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
• Tom Hart, Banks Eubanks' New Hat Stories
• John M. Samson (Editor), Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle Book #211
• Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
• Elmore Leonard, The Big Bounce

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