Birthdays
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FROM: Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/9/03, 10:41 AM
Can't wait for the responses!
Wendy
Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas
FROM: "Melissa Norton" <[removed]@bridgton.lib.me.us>
REC'D: 1/9/03, 11:23 AM
>Our Library is kicking off our 80th birthday celebration on Saturday. I
>would like to do a display of fiction with birthdays as a major plot point.
>Any suggestions with major life changes prompted by a birthday, crazy
>birthday celebrations, etc. will be much appreciated.
>
>Can't wait for the responses!
>
>Wendy
>
>
>Wendy Isom
>Arlington Public Library
>Arlington, Texas
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/9/03, 11:34 AM
If you're including plays, Harold Pinter's THE BIRTHDAY PARTY. (I
don't recall if Vonnegut's HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE involves a real
birthday, though I don't think so.) And add THE BOYS IN THE BAND by
Matt Crowley.
Agatha Christie's REMEMBERED DEATH (SPARKLING CYANIDE in the UK)
involves a suicide (or was it a murder?) at a birthday party.
William Nolan's LOGAN'S RUN (a book before it became a movie and tv
series) involves a society where everyone is supposed to be put to
death on their 30th (?) birthday.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING of course begins with Bilbo Baggins'
birthday party...
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: [removed]@msln.net
REC'D: 1/9/03, 12:05 PM
Birthday Party : A Lilly Bennett Mystery, Marne Davis Kellogg, New York, NY,
U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1999. Subjects: Bennett Lily Fictitious Character Fiction
Wyoming Mystery Detective Police Procedural Women Sleuths
DIGGING TO AUSTRALIA by Lesley Glaister, 1992, Secker & Warburg. 214pp.
"This is a brilliant, intense study of adolescence. The novel begins on
Jennifer's thirteenth birthday, when her life is turned upside down by a
startling revelation about her past. She remembers a childhood fantasy - to dig
to Australia - and she goes outside to dig. She doesn't reach Australia, but a
new world, on the brink of adulthood, that lurches terrifyingly between wonder
and despair, fear and desire." YA
H. Philip Birdsong's ESP, Harriet Lawrence, New York, W. R. Scott 1969. Science
Fiction. Summary: On the day of his thirteenth birthday a boy discovers he has
ESP and that he can exchange extrasensory messages with his dog as well as
other animals. With Drawings By Sandy Huffaker. YA?
Mr. X. by Peter Straub, Ballantine Books 2000
510 pages. Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan is cursed with visions of
horrors committed by a savage figure he calls Mr. X.
Sentimental Journey by J. Mead, Simon & Schuster LONDON 1997.
Writer Elena Stewart reaches her 31st birthday and faces life crises...
Romantic fiction.
Sybil At Sixteen, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, New York: Bantam Books, 1989.
Subjects: Sisters--Fiction Summary: Sybil's sixteenth birthday brings the
Sebastian family together again--a reunion that initiates a series of crises
and confrontations between the four sisters and their parents that have far-
reaching consequences. YA
That Horse Whiskey by C.S. Adler, New York: Clarion Books, C 1994.
Subjects: Horses--Fiction. 152 p. Summary: Disappointed when her father cannot
fulfill his promise of buying her a horse for her thirteenth birthday, Lainey
throws her energy into training a neighbor's cantankerous horse, with whom she
soon falls in love. YA
In _Back When We Were Grownups_ by Anne Tyler, Rebecca’s 99 year old uncle-in-
law who lives on the top floor is obsessed with his forthcoming 100th birthday,
and there is a birthday party celebration.
I believe Ann Pachett's _Bel Canto_ begins with a birthday party, at which Bel
a world-renowned soprano sings.
~ Molly
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library, Maine
Weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm
Booklists: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/bklista.htm
Quoting Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>:
> Our Library is kicking off our 80th birthday celebration on Saturday.
> I
> would like to do a display of fiction with birthdays as a major plot
> point.
> Any suggestions with major life changes prompted by a birthday, crazy
> birthday celebrations, etc. will be much appreciated.
>
> Can't wait for the responses!
>
> Wendy
>
>
> Wendy Isom
> Arlington Public Library
> Arlington, Texas
FROM: [removed]@msln.net
REC'D: 1/9/03, 12:16 PM
McDonald, Joyce. Swallowing Stones.
Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael
MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique
Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate
Jenna Ward.
~ Molly
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library, Maine
Weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm
Booklists: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/bklista.htm
Quoting Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>:
> Our Library is kicking off our 80th birthday celebration on Saturday.
> I
> would like to do a display of fiction with birthdays as a major plot
> point.
> Any suggestions with major life changes prompted by a birthday, crazy
> birthday celebrations, etc. will be much appreciated.
>
> Can't wait for the responses!
>
> Wendy
FROM: [removed]@msln.net
REC'D: 1/9/03, 12:16 PM
_Passing Go_ by Libby Purves, 2000
When Roy Keaney is made redundant by his own son on his 50th birthday, he
watches as his family and finances crumble. His wife Helen casts around for a
rebellious gesture of her own, and in finding one she accidentally solves other
problems.
_Stress Family Robinson II (The Birthday Party)_ by Adrian Plass
Written from Kathy Robinson's point of view, this book covers the week up to
and including her 50th birthday party. The same enjoyable larger-than-life
characters who were introduced in the first Robinson book, with their down-to-
earth approach to the Christian life. A few moments of humour and some of
sadness. Rather unusual sub-plot as the Robinsons' friend Dip reveals a 40-
year-old secret out of the blue, and begins to find healing.
_Fortysomething_ by Nigel Williams, 1999
Paul Slippery is 49 years and 5 months old, and lives with his long-suffering
wife in Wimbledon, together with their three children. As well as the impending
birthday, Paul hears that the character he has played for 20 years in a radio
soap is being killed off.
_Old Love: A Novel_ by Margaret Erhart, 1998
A suburban family finds their lives altered when Tommie, the mother, crashes
her car into a stone wall on her 40th birthday. When she recovers from massive
head injuries, she abandons her family for a women's community, and her two
children must cope
_Two Against One_ by Frederick Barthelme, 1988
Sex, marriage, and alcohol are gone from his life, and Edward does not miss
them. But when his estranged wife Elise retuns from her beach house, his 40th-
birthday weekend is shattered by temptation, self-doubt, and Elise's lover,
Roscoe.
_Tommy's Tale: A Novel_ by Alan Cumming, 2002
A young British pansexual with a penchant for chemical and physical excess
stars in award-winning actor Cumming's (Cabaret, Eyes Wide Shut) zany debut. As
his 30th birthday looms, Tommy grapples with both his desire to have a child
and his fear of settling down ...
_Wanted: One Groom_ by Pat Ballard, 2000
A romance novel with a plus-size heroine. If Hanna Rockwell isn't married by
the time she reaches her 30th birthday, she will lose her entire inheritance,
which not only affects her, but also affects her mother and brother, who live
at Rockwell Place with her. Tired of the pressure her mother, Mary, and
brother, Will, are putting on her to get married to save their home, she
challenges them. "Mother, you plan the wedding. Will, you find the groom. And
I'll get married on my 30th birthday!"
_Darjeeling_ by Bharti Kirchner
Two Westernized sisters who grew up on a tea plantation in Darjeeling waste a
decade in rivalry over the same unworthy man. When grandmother Nina requests
that the two sisters return home to celebrate her 70th birthday, their rivalry
over Pranab, whose adjustment to American life has not been smooth, flares
afresh.
~ Molly
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library, Maine
Weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm
Booklists: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/bklista.htm
Quoting Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>:
> Our Library is kicking off our 80th birthday celebration on Saturday.
> I
> would like to do a display of fiction with birthdays as a major plot
> point.
> Any suggestions with major life changes prompted by a birthday, crazy
> birthday celebrations, etc. will be much appreciated.
>
> Can't wait for the responses!
>
> Wendy
>
>
> Wendy Isom
> Arlington Public Library
> Arlington, Texas
FROM: "Denese Young" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 1/9/03, 1:39 PM
--
Denese Young
Florissant Valley Branch
St. Louis County Library
``Ozzy Osbourne used to snort ants. Led Zeppelin had sex with
hookers on private planes. And I start a book club. Because
one can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before
one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a book.''--Moby
--
FROM: "C. L. Quillen" <[removed]@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 1/9/03, 3:07 PM
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[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Wendy Isom
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To: Fiction_L
Subject: Birthdays
Our Library is kicking off our 80th birthday celebration on
Saturday. I
would like to do a display of fiction with birthdays as a major
plot point.
Any suggestions with major life changes prompted by a birthday,
crazy
birthday celebrations, etc. will be much appreciated.
Can't wait for the responses!
Wendy
Wendy Isom
Arlington Public Library
Arlington, Texas
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FROM: Lisa Olsen <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/9/03, 3:49 PM
Harry Potter's birthdays are always significant days though they also
noted for the lack of celebration on the part of relatives.
_______________________________________________________________
Lisa A. Olsen
Information Services
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Hope Mills Branch
3411 Golfview Road
Hope Mills, NC 28348-2266
(910)425-8455
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REC'D: 1/9/03, 6:51 PM
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Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System
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