Editing List of Books (section)

==Dramatis Personae==
''Dramatis Personae'' is the combination address book, dossier and journal that families use to keep track of people they know of in writing.<ref>“Include Essentials, your Dramatis Personae, other introductory stuff.  Let’s get Avery the basics while we’re at it.”<br><br>“We’d want to redact,” the Aunt said.  “Nothing major, but a good contact is valuable.”<br><br>“Mostly I want Dramatis Personae for the notes it’d have on groups like Wonderkand and the other Finders she might run into.”<br><br>“Okay.  Limited redactions where appropriate for business… emailing.”<br>[...]<br>“Dramatis Personae is different for every family, more like a notebook or contact list where you keep track of friends and enemies,” Zed told Avery.  “Just about every practitioner’s got one.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/31 Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.9]]</ref>

The one used by the [[Thorburn Family]] is a small black book<ref name=":7">“What about the North End Sorcerer?”<br><br>“What about him?”<br><br>“I take it you didn’t read the little black book from cover to cover?  Look him up.”<br>[...]<br>I opened the tiny book.<br><br>Johannes Lillegard, believed to be an adopted name... - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/07 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.6]]</ref> handwritten by [[Rose Thorburn Senior|Rose D. Thorburn, Sr]] listing and summarizes notable individuals within [[Jacob's Bell]] and the surrounding area,<ref name="b13dp">Mr. Beasley, as well as individuals you’ll find in Jacob’s Bell and the surrounding area, is described in a little black book I playfully dubbed ''Dramatis Personae,'' when I was younger. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2013/12/24 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.3]]</ref> it has tabs separating "Allies" (Containing only her lawyers' number) and "Enemies" (Everyone else in town.)<ref>I found ''Dramatis Personae. '' I flipped through it.  There were tabs.  One for ‘allies’, which was virtually empty, with only the lawyer’s number.<br><br>Enemies…  they took up almost all of the remainder. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2013/12/24 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.3]]</ref> We see [[Johannes]]' entry in [[Bonds 1.6]].<ref name=":7" />

[[Rose Thorburn Senior|Rose D. Thorburn, Sr.]] dubbed her book playful when she was younger,<ref name="b13dp" /> her childhood having been in [[Timeline#1930|the 1930s]], it seems to have caught on since as other families use the name as well, at least in [[Canada]].

Many practitioner family have their own version of Dramatis Personae including the shopkeeper in [[Mile End]], [[Charles Abrams]]<ref>While sorting things out and selling some of his practice things in exchange for favors, final things we needed for the perimeter, and for cash so we could pay for his food and accommodations, I found his address book.  Dramatis Personae, many practitioners have one such book.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/05/11/dash-to-pieces-11-4/ Excerpt] from [[Dash to Pieces 11.4]]</ref> and the [[Garrick family|Garrick Family]].<ref>“Include Essentials, your Dramatis Personae, other introductory stuff.  Let’s get Avery the basics while we’re at it.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/summer-break-13-9/ Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.9]]</ref>