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[red solo cup]

Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Hearn was quite a character. If I recall correctly, he had to leave the state of Illinois for marrying a black woman. In those days, illegal.

[Mono no aware]

Hearn was quite a character. If I recall correctly, he had to leave the state of Illinois for marrying a black woman. In those days, illegal.

You recall correctly, but the locale was Cincinnati.  Paris Review | The Many Lives of Lafcadio Hearn.  His life's trajectory seems sufficiently interesting that I considered purchasing a 1936 biography, Unfamiliar Lafcadio Hearn, by Kenneth P. Kirkwood, but opted for this instead.  I do not have the handsome two-volume hardcover set pictured here, unfortunately.  It's a fat paperback in trade size from Tuttle Publishing, 580 pp.

[Bernadette]

The Lost Prince, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and The Diary of a Young Girl: The Revised Critical Edition, by Anne Frank. The latter was put together by the Dutch War Institute, and contains all three versions of her diary,

[Bernadette]

I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith. This was one of my favorites in my teens and early twenties. Haven't read it for years.

[Tennessean]

The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym. I'm also rereading A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller.

[Lynne]

I'm also rereading A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller.

I loved this.

[red solo cup]

John Adams by David McCullough. This won a Pulitzer.

[Optatus]

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort's Secret of the Rosary. I'm familiar with many of its more famous excerpts but am ashamed to report that I've never read it in full until now.

[Prayerful]

Military History of Late Rome, 457-518, Ilka Syvanne, sort of alongside Robert di Mattei's St Pius V.

[red solo cup]

El Camino. Walking to Santiago de Compostela by Lee Hoinacki.

[Lynne]

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort's Secret of the Rosary. I'm familiar with many of its more famous excerpts but am ashamed to report that I've never read it in full until now.

Better late than never. 

[Bernadette]

Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr. It's pretty slow right now.

[LausTibiChriste]

El Camino. Walking to Santiago de Compostela by Lee Hoinacki.

How is it?

The Camino and more so the Via Francigena have always been on my bucket list

[Christina_S]

Nicholas Nickleby by the one and only Charles Dickens.