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Thank you, thank you, thank you!

By clock on November 23, 2007.

Well, I certainly like it very much when a reader checks out my Amazon wish list and picks out a present for me. I like presents!

But this morning I got a LARGE package, full of books from the Wish List, a variety and quantity sufficient to keep me excitedly reading for quite a while:

Quantico by Greg Bear
An Inconvenient Truth DVD by Al Gore
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh.
The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior by David Allen Sibley.
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside by Katrina Firlik
How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok by Glenn Greenwald
Cross Dressing by Bill Fitzhugh
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania by Matthew Chapman

Thank you!!!!!

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