Tag: Book
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Sunday 25 November 1923
Read Twisted Trails. Notes “Twisted Trails” is a book by Henry Oyen. He was born in Norway in 1883 but moved to the United States aged one year. His first story was published when he was 22 in the Century Magazine. He worked for six years for the Chicago Tribune before leaving to write fiction.…
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Saturday 24 November 1973
Got Ron’s fire going. Very windy. Roger came on his bike for a book. Notes Ron refers to Ron Douglas, grandma and grandad’s next-door neighbour at 168 Drayton High Road. The fire in question was a paraffin stove that Ron had given grandad the previous day. This is mentioned in Chapter 109. Roger refers to…
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Sunday 23 September 1923
Read The Sheriff’s Son. Notes “The Sheriff’s Son” is a book by William Macleod Raine. Other books grandad read by the same author include “The Pirates of Panama” in 1921 and “Mavericks” in 1922, see Index of Books Read.
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Sunday 18 March 1923
Read “The Wolf”. Notes I have not been able to identify this book definitively. Could it have been a non-fiction book about wolves or about SMS Wolf? Or perhaps, there was a fuller title?
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Sunday 4 March 1923
Read “Loot“. Notes I believe this book was “Loot” which was Arthur Somers-Roche’s first novel that was published in 1916.
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Sunday 25 February 1923
Read “At Sunwich Port“. Notes At Sunwich Port is a book by William Wymark (W W) Jacobs. It appears that this book is a maritime adventure.
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Sunday 18 February 1923
Snowed all day . Read “City of Palms“. Notes Initially, I struggled to find the book “City of Palms” not least because there is a later book of the same title by Pamela Kent. In the end, I found a book by that title (“The City of Palms“) in the Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore)…