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Margo Jefferson's Book Constructing A Nervous System is a book set in the unclaimed space between critique and memoir. A brilliant and personal exploration of self, of race, class, and what it is to be black and female in America. Profound and stunning. I also recommend Negroland, a memoir about growing up in an upper-class black neighborhood in Chicago. Jefferson deftly explores the complex social and moral system, as well as its contradictions. Since I can play Scrabble in the sand for years to come, the Oxford English Dictionary has been helpful. There's nothing I like better than a reference book - as a child, I used to carry a different letter to bed with me at night. The H stands for helium, horses, and humans. Children's books from the early 1960s, like Bernard Waber's 1962, The House On East 88th Street and its sequel, Lyle Crocodile, where a crocodile lives a very civilised life with the Primm family in a New York city brownstone. Ralph S. Mouse lives in a California inn and befriends a boy who is visiting and happens to have a toy motorcycle, which is just right for a mouse.