August 1998
To Austin
Love, Dad

To the most buffed
7-year old I know!

Bruce Lee’s Fighting Method: Self Defense Techniques by Bruce Lee and M. Uyehara.

Found at A Castle of Books.

Krista,

Hope you get a little more
inspiration from the ideas in this book.
(If it’s even possible for you to be
more inspired.) You have already done
it, you are already there, you are already
here. Just be!!!

Yours,
Andrew

Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV by Sam Brenton and Reuben Cohen

Thanks to Valerie Laken from Milwaukee, who says:

“I found this really intriguing book inscription in a used book this week.
I love the Book Inscriptions Project, so I thought I’d send it your way.

Mainly, I’m intrigued by what exactly Andrew thought would be so
inspiring to Krista in a book that’s all about the exploitation of reality
TV participants.”

I liked the book
Written during WWII
+ reflects the writing
+ ideals of that time

Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker

Thanks to Erik Cooke, a man from Montana (and elsewhere).

To My Wonderful
Husband-

May all the years of our marriage
be as happy as this first one was.

Love Always,
Karen
8.8.89

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Found in Half Price Books. Austin, TX. May 2009

Thanks to Marisa Lester, who says, “20 years later I wonder if they are still married.”

April 15, 1981

For Ted,
In commemoration
of your Great Civil
Suite.

From
Bo—- (illegible)

Selected Poems by Czeslaw Milosz

To My Darling
Loren,

The Only Man
I’ve Ever Loved.

-Libby

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

Eve –
Please don’t be
angry with me — I do
have a copy of this
book, which I could
have lent you –

but — how can
I say it? — you just
cannot read “gift from
the sea” — it must be
kept nearby – always-
to read & reread –
there is so much of
you in anne lindbergh’s
writing–

the deep spirit
of — ‘woman’ — in all
it’s loveliness, mysticism
and splendour — the ache
of longing, of loneliness –
and all those many
unspoken thoughts –
above all –

the wond’rous
beauty of ‘femininity’ –
it is all you, Eve –
–>
we need no words -
to express our bond of friendship –
my feeble mode of
expression falls short
of what I would
will from my heart -

Forgive me –
but in reading
this — I know -
you will understand -

Sue

Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh