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The Undying Fire
Last night I finished… The Undying Fire (1919) by H. G. Wells. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My copy was a library book that came out of Alma White College Library in Zarephath New Jersey. Pictured below, we see a lovely bookplate, that bears the name Elisabeth Wadsworth Coffin. The banner at the top reads in Latin, “Extant Rectè…
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The Three Daughters of Madame Liang
I just finished reading The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969) by Pearl S. Buck ⭐⭐ My copy of this book was bound backwards, where the cover art is on the back cover. It is a discarded library book from Zarephath Library in New Jersey. This book tells the story of Madame Liang’s three daughters…
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Dawn O’Hara, The Girl Who Laughed
Dawn O’Hara, The Girl Who Laughed (1911) by Edna Ferber ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finished 8/13/2022 My copy of Dawn O’Hara has a red cover with a green block on top that displays the name of the book. It was published by Grosset & Dunlap. Inside is written in pencil “Grace O’Neal Xmas 1914”. There is also a…
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A Tragical Tale of the Tropics
A Tragical Tale of the Tropics is an anonymous poem, the first entry in Chatterbox, 1883. (I first mention this here). It seems to be a kind of strange one to be in a children’s publication, but we find that there are lots of this type of story and poem that deal with unsavory subjects…