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Something is wrong here, because I am on p. 105 0f 402 in a hardcover edition published by Riverhead Books, a division of the Penguin Group

The edition I have is not large print, yet is 430 pages not 130 as represented in the progress keeper.

Just getting into it.
Nov. 11, 2020
I'm a few pages from finishing, but I've had some interruptions. I'm not particularly feeling the characters in spite of that supposedly being a salient feature of Hemingway in general and this book in particular. I'm anxious to be done with it, return it to the library, and get on to other reads.

Just getting into it.

Tristram and Isoude (continued) pp. 84-85

I think I've read this before, but if so, it's worth a second read anyway! I find it particularly interesting, because it is set in Appalachia albeit mostly in another state than my own, but they're still the same beautiful Appalachian Mountains that I am surrounded by in my current North Carolina home.

I think I've read this before, but if so, it's worth a second read anyway! I find it particularly interesting, because it is set in Appalachia albeit mostly in another state than my own, but they're still the same beautiful Appalachian Mountains that I am surrounded by in my current North Carolina home.

I'm reading a Random House edition of this book with tiny print. The libraries are closed, so I can't exchange at this point.

This is excellent. The subtitle is A Memoir. The author' Diana Athill is a prodigious intellectual with astounding academic accomplishments including an education at Oxford University and a fifty year career in the publishing industry editing the works of the l

Anybody born into the baby boomer generation and anyone since should read this book. It's an elegant history, but it also captures so very well the feeling of the times during which I was born and came to adulthood. This was the world of my parents generation and grandparents' generation spanning the turn of the nineteenth century through the two World Wars and through the Korean War as well.

I am enjoying this book more as I get further into it. I suspect that this may become the favorite of her books that I have read so far, and I'm glad that she appears prolific, because despite having read several of her works, there are still several more ahead, and I'm not even quite halfway through this one.

I stopped reading this book for now. I'm going to get an E-version, so I can control the font size. It's a long book, and the hardbound editions I've gotten from my library have both had relatively small type. I'll get back to this book eventually, as I really do want to read it, but in the meantime, I'm reading more of Louise Erdrich.

Really enjoying this so far. Motivating me to go back and re-read or first read some older authors. There are some Hemingway and Scott f/itzgerald novels I haven't read, and I should do so. Also, the work of John /dos Passos.