Bus Books. Randolph & Bay, St. Paul

1: What are you reading?

2: Hayduke Lives! It's a book about people who are mad at the way people mess up the environment, so they start fighting back.

1: Oh! That sounds good. I'm reading a book about the murder that happened in White Bear Lake in the early 60s.

2: Is that a new book?

1: No, I got it in a thrift store for 50 cents. It's about this three year old who died in White Bear Lake.

2: I don't know so much about that.

1: His biological mother had put him up for adoption, because she was pretty young, and, you know, that was a different time. But she went back to look for him and found out he had died. So she started investigating. This woman who had adopted him was so mean. You know, he peed a little, so she put a clothespin on his privates.

2: Oh, she was just really abusive.

1: Yes, and back then, you know, it wasn't like it is now.

2: You mean, no services? No one to help out in situations like that?

1: Well, you know, nobody knew about child abuse then.

2: Yeah, it was all very secret.

1: I like mysteries. I read mostly on the bus.