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William Montoya _ark_ragon1976 — a book that shows how we must stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves i don't really know what it was, but i just kept on reading and hated stopping

Erin Page _rin_age — J.R. Moehringer’s experience living 128 steps from Dickens Bar in Manhasset, NY is simultaneously a love story, a coming-of-age story and a tribute to the men who raised him after his father abandoned the family. JR’s colorful collection of honorary uncles (and one real one) are masculine, gruff, and flawed. Uncle Charlie, his mother’s brother, is a bartender at Dickens along with other bartenders and scores of customers. Led by Dickens’ owner Steve, they usher JR into adulthood. “Wandering freely among this unlikely fraternity of alphas, listening to the stories of the soldiers and ballplayers, poets and cops, millionaires and bookies, actors and crooks who leaned nightly against Steve’s bar, I heard them say again and again that the differences among them were great, but the reasons they had come to be so different were slight.” JR demonstrates both his youthful pomposity and his love of language with the delightful list of “big words” he plans to use on his college application: provisional, strident, bucolic, fulcrum, inimical, behemoth, Jesuitical, minion, eclectic, Marquis de Sod [sic:] and esthetic. This honest and refreshing memoir is written by one who definitely loves words and uses them well. The Tender Bar is a love story as well, but between mother and son. Upon graduating from Yale, JR gifts his mother with a Yale class ring, since he couldn’t have gotten in or graduated without her help. Then in the same page, I found myself laughing through the hard lump of tears as sympathy from Fuckembabe came in the form of “Your son, he said to my mother ‘splitches the sploozah like nobody else in this casbah, especially when he walla wallas the umpty boodles, I wanna tell you.’” This beautifully told memoir shares the best and worst of the tender bar who nurtured him.