Buying Dad: one woman’s search for the perfect sperm donor (Harlyn Aizley) Two nice Jewish girls try to figure out whether to have a baby, and if so, how to get the ingredients. And then they go through with it. And meanwhile Harlyn’s mother is dying of cancer.
The Genius Factory: the curious history of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank (David Plotz) Interesting history of sperm banks in general. Also follows the particular stories of a few mothers and children turned up through his articles in Slate.
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I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse?: an illustrated memoir (Suzy Becker) It was too disturbing—I couldn’t finish it.
The Kid: (what happened after my boyfriend and I decided to go get pregnant): an adoption story (Dan Savage)
Navidad Mágica en Oaxaca/ Magical Christmas in Oaxaca (Mary J. Andrade) Coffee-table book with photos, text and poems (in English and Spanish) celebrating the culture and craft of Oaxacan Christmas (including carved radishes, dioramas made of thousands of flowers and corn husks, traditional dances, etc.)
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (Anne Lamott) Good.
Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs) Extremely disturbing, morbidly fascinating story of boy whose psychotic mom sends him to live with her insane psychiatrist in his house of horrors.
Tender at the bone : growing up at the table (Ruth Reichl)
Treehouses of the World (Nelson/Kurzaj) So tantalizing! Wonderful pictures of insides and outsides of cool treehouses, mostly in the States and England but a few others, most professionally made.
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