Check Out a Book & Our New Bookshelf

Our house librarian John Fausz has a variety of literary notes for you:My personal reading list was briefly interrupted by a surprise addition: America by Jean Baudrillard, which was by turns alarming and entertaining and written in an adventurous, new historicist style. Once Matt Grant finishes it, I'll be adding it to our shelf.And yes, I've finally started One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.Which brings me to the next exciting bit of news: the Royale Library is up and running and starting to overflow! Our fiction, nonfiction and memoir selections are available for lending or trade. Here's a list of current titles:The Guide - RK NarayanThe heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullersThe Painted Bird - Jerzy KosinskiUlysses - James JoyceThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot DiazO pioneers! - Willa CatherFaust, pt. 1 - Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheTree of Smoke - Denis JohnsonThe Executioner's Song - Norman MailerNight - Elie WieselSilas Marner - George EliotFor Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest HemingwayUnder the Banner of Heaven- Jon Krakauer