B.W.'s reading list

As many of you know, I love to read for pleasure.  I have spent hours at a time at local libraries, Barnes & Noble in Long Beach, and also at Borders in Cerritos before Borders closed completely in 2011.

With that in mind, and also with the lack of available electricity, it should come as no surprise that my "second family's" reading list is extensive.  Here are a few of their favorites:

*The Bible, New King James' Version - Personally, I have the New International Version, but I doubt it would exist in my classical Southern setting (remember it's around 1930).
*Babblejack's Book of World Facts, by Magdalena Babblejack - The British author takes a virtual tour of what the world will look like after the Glorious Appearance.  It includes stories of restored empires like Greece, Rome, and Songhai, newly created countries (like Centralia in America's heartland, Kurdistan in the Middle East, and Transvaal in Africa), and unified nations such as Ireland, Korea, and the Indian subcontinent.  (Oh, and best yet for these Southern "rebels," it also confirms that their Idealian home is part of the new Confederate States of America.)  Since travel itself is much more difficult than before, this is a great "mind's eye" substitute.
*Meet Little Jill Horner and Little Jill Horner Wins The Award, by Belinda Barefoot - Her first book made her the youngest author ever on the best-seller list of The New York Times.  In the books, the main character is a child star who can't handle the pressures of Hollywood, until God and her family intervene to give balance to her life.  The "award" in question in the second book is not what you think it is!  Along the way, Jill has to face down Bettina Bitterbeetle, a drug-addicted movie star on the decline, and Dylan Bryan-Brown, the richest executive in Hollywood.
*Bracegirdle and Codpiece by Laura Rottenborough - The novelist writes about a love story between Delilah Bracegirdle and Rodney Codpiece that began in the Victorian Age in England and is interrupted after Rodney's untimely death.  When they are revived in Heaven, they're reunited in Cape Town, South Africa.  From there, they must solve the mystery of their presence there so they can return home to England.   It's Annie's favorite book and inspires her own budding career.
*Deliver Me From Evil: My Escape From Prostitution by Melanie MacMelville - Before she became a pop singer (and semifinalist on Sing for the World America), MacMelville lived in Las Vegas as a call girl.  Here, she reveals the experience that ended her time as a hooker in one of the most moving books ever written.  It was also adapted into a movie.
*Ella Mae's 100 Best Quilt Ideas and Ella Mae's 100 Best Recipes by Ella Mae Bowling - Both books have indispensable information for the older women in the house.
*Real Barenaked Ladies by Matt Pinfield - The biographical story of the controversial doo-wop vocal group, whose name pokes fun at the all-male Canadian pop band of the same name.  To get past TV censors, the women, Brandy Roderick, Vicky Lynn Hogan, Tara Patrick, and Michelle Mitchell, wore body paint during their appearance on SFTWA.  (These are pictures of four other celebrities whose names I don't know offhand, with Photoshop to simulate a group pose.)  Bunky has read it over and over and over again, much to B.W.'s dismay.  The author is a New York City radio host and former MTV "veejay."