A Boring Story about a Book

Last year, I called out to my friends on Facebook. Despite knowing specific facts about the book, I couldn't find it on my own.

Several of my friends are (or were) in the book business so that was my first stop. There were no answers. 

This year, the post popped up as a memory notification on the Facebook. And coincidentally, I thought about this damned book again within this past week. I happened to re-share the memory and someone (current friend, former book business) suggested I head to the Front Page of the Internet: Reddit. Now, husband enjoys perusing Reddit. I have an account (that I don't really use) so I logged on in and went fishing. Since I work in a library, I was all about to email some coworkers asking for help, but 12 hours and 3 subreddits later someone sent me a GoodReads link but there wasn't a great summary of the book. So I Googled into it some more and saw this which give a Cliff's Notes version of the story. And it was the book I've been trying to figure out for at least 3 years even though I read it about 23 years ago. 

Books: they stay with you forever. 

And just to be clear, the following image is the book cover I remember... With the doodles. 

Yeah. So now I want to (ridiculous, I know) read it all over again. Don't ask why.