Not About The
Buildings
Summer
Read-A-Thon
Delia
Name:
Delia
Location:
South Providence
About:
I have forsaken Milwaukee, Paris, Rome and New Brunswick, NJ for
Providence, RI. But I love it less than books.
Literary Interests:
Art History, Rhode Island History, Early Printing, Science Fiction,
and/or anything about Joan Jett
Sponsors: 8 ($10.50 per book)
Books Read: 14 (AMERICAN COOKERY: OR, THE ART OF
DRESSING Viands, Fish, Poultry
and
Vegetables AND THE BEST MODES OF MAKING Puff-Pastes, Pies, Tarts,
Puddings, Custards and Preserves
AND ALL KINDS OF CAKE
From the Imperial PLUMB to plain CAKE. ADAPTED TO THIS COUNTRY,
AND ALL GRADES OF LIFE By AMELIA SIMMONS, AN AMERICAN ORPHAN, 1796; Ben
Shahn, The Shape of Content; Legs
McNeil, Please Kill Me: The
Uncensored Oral History of Punk; Junot Diaz, The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao;
Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca;
Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin
Stories; Lewis Hyde, The
gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property; We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet: The
Collected Interviews; Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from
the American Indie
Underground, 1981-1991; John Christopher, The White Mountains; John
Christopher, The City of Gold and Lead; John Christopher, The Pool of
Fire)
To
sponsor Delia, write an e-mail to
thebuildings@notaboutthebuildings.com
and mention Delia's name and how much you'd like to sponsor her
for.
We're suggesting $1 per book, but we'd be happy to take more
(or less) depending on what you can offer. In your e-mail,
please also include a way for us to contact you in September, when the
Read-A-Thon is over.