Comments on: Share the Love! Tell Us What You Donated! (2006 Drive)

By: Anita Litvak

Anita Litvak — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:13:33 +0000

I purchased from Amazon.

For Diberville Library
c/o Harrison County Libary

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Saving Fish from Drowning by: Amy Tan
Suite Francaise by: Irene Nemirovsky
Water for Elephants by: Sara Gruen

By: Meredith Lovelace

Meredith Lovelace — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:56:46 +0000

Because it’s Christmas and my dad’s family is WAY into it and I hate wrapping and paying shipping and I hate the post office and half of my family seems to be moving in the next month anyway so I’ve gotten all these emails saying “WE DON’T NEED ANYTHING BULKY!!!!!”, I decided this year it would have to be a theme that would fit all of them. But what? By nature, whatever one family member likes, another hates so what will fit them all? Crazily, the answer came this very morning, a very late (or is it just seasonal?) December 18th with the book drive. I tried to get books that reflected the family member whose name I was giving it in, but in the cases where that didn’t work, I will write a letter saying something along the lines of “HEY. It’s for charity!” But seriously, this is a wonderful, wonderful thing you guys are doing. So I got the following:

Biloxi Public Library
Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life Lessons at the World’s Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers (okay, that one’s from me. I totally want to read it.)
Pyramids (DK Eyewitness Books)
Photography (DK Eyewitness Books)
Blues Masters: The Very Best of T-Bone Walker (CD)
A Bear Called Paddington
Jackson, MS (Images of America)

Pass Christian Library
The Year of Magical Thinking
Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer (for my step-grandfather, the ex-HR man)

Gulfport Library
Three Coins in a Fountain (DVD – for my mom)
Going My Way/Holiday Inn (DVD set – for my grandmother)

D’Iberville Library
Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Survival

Margaret Sherry Memorial Library
Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

Orange Grove Library
Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog

By: Amy & Molly

Amy & Molly — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:59:46 +0000

Since our parents, Don and Maureen, do not want us to buy them Christmas gifts, we decided to donate books in their name to the Biloxi Library. They actually lived the first years of their married life in Biloxi while our father was in the service, so the city will always have a special place in their hearts. Moreover, no one taught us to appreciate the love of reading and libraries more than the two of them.

We have donated the following in their names:

Kirsten’s Story Collection: for Mom, especially, because she always drove us to the bookstore to get the newest release in whatever series we were reading at the time

Blandings Castle: for Dad, especially, because no one loves Jeeves and Wooster more

Games, How to Play, and How to Win: for both of them, because of the countless hours they spent playing cards, Memory, Yahtzee, Racko, Sorry, Scrabble, (and every other game in the basement) with us over the years

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:32:15 +0000

Here’s the list donated to the Pass Christian Library from their wish list:
1 The Road (rough cut)
1 The World Is Flat [Updated…
1 Special Topics in Calamity…
1 Lisey’s Story
1 The Guy Not Taken: Stories
1 The Greatest Story Ever So…

I had hoped to donate books that my bookclub had read already but instead went with some books that could end up on our future read lists. Enjoy!

By: Bevin

Bevin — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:57:35 +0000

I’m sending the Samantha Story Collection (from the American Girls books) to the Biloxi Library. I always loved the American Girls stories when I was little, and Samantha was my favorite, so I’m happy to have a chance to share them.

By: E.V.

E.V. — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:23:42 +0000

I sent the Pass Christian library two books in honor of my soon-to-be mother-in-law who spent many summers in Pass Christian and is deaf:

American Sign Language The Easy Way (Barron’s Easy Way Series)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ.....PV4HRRZ21H

Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Dictionary
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ.....PV4HRRZ21H

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:32:14 +0000

My family and I sent the following books to the Biloxi Library in memory of Lorraine Katz:

George and Martha One Fine Day – James Marshall
George and Martha Round and Round – James Marshall
Puss in Boots – Charles Perrault
All-of-a-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Jack and the Beanstalk – Steven Kellogg
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
Library Lion – Michelle Knudsen
Fox on Stage – James Marshall
Fox at School – Edward Marshall

Most are from the wish list, but I added a couple of classics about New York (where Lorraine lived and was a librarian), and one about a very smart girl. I figured there can never be too many copies of A Wrinkle in Time!

By: Molly Larkin

Molly Larkin — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:45:58 +0000

The staff of Marquette University Raynor Memorial Library raised $260 for the Gulfport Public Library. We selected some dvds and books from your Amazon Wishlist.

Best wishes from your friends in Milwaukee.

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:23:57 +0000

I sent Meg Cabot’s “How to Be Popular” to the Biloxi library.

Always happy to spread girly book joy! :)

By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:43:18 +0000

A copy of a book called Stockcars is on it’s way to Saucier Library, in honor of my boyfriend’s nephew who loves cars and starts preschool this week.

My local library was closed do to flooding last week in northeastern Ohio. The damage to the collection was minimal, but it sort of gripped my heart when I saw it was closed for three days. That feeling was what fueled my purchase today…the library is like a warm blanket in the wintertime, something you don’t appreciate until you don’t have it anymore. Today’s purchase is going to be someone else’s warm blanket.