Been visiting my second cousins near Chicago...actually I am in Chicago now getting ready to go to an Irish Pub..Kitty O'Shea's in Chicago Hilton...anyway, Donna gave me two Holocaust books..one is about the Lebensborn? babies and one called Sarah's Key about a family taken from France to Auschwitz...which is funny..not funny..but I was just talking to someone about having been in Paris a few years back and seeing all these signs on these old buildings in back streets..this was the scene of ......the book was about the rounding up of Jews and putting them in a bicycle racing complex until they were taken further...

And we went through Postville Iowa, near where our great great grandparents settled. That was recently the scene of a great international story including traditional Iowans, Orthodox Jews and immigrant Guatamalens who were gathered in a raid and kept for some time in fairgrounds perhaps? There are books out about this...

And my cousin Tom gave me two books about creating communities in prison populations. One I am just finishing is called my Soul Cried out to me or something like that...I could never be a librarian because I can never remember the names or authors of books..I usually can remember the color or look of it though.

And I am right across the street from a beautiful public library in Chicago with huge copper wings on the roof...and a couple of blocks away from Barnes and Noble..and they still have the great chairs to sit in. So I was readiing how to control clutter books, which I just love, as well as other self improvement books..which I never seem to improve from but I do enjoy reading them. mg