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Originally Posted by issybird
I haven't posted here in forever and there's no point in trying to catch up, so this is what I'm reading now.
- Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South by Sam Bowers Hilliard. You wouldn't read this for the prose, but the substance is interesting.
- Ralph the Heir, my 27th novel by Anthony Trollope.
- Lanterns on the Levee, by William Alexander Percy, uncle of the great Walker. A wonderful memoir of a life in Mississippi at the turn of the century and later.
- Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson. Interesting insights. I'm not quite swept away, but it's enhancing my appreciation.
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I've finished
Ralph the Heir and
Lanterns on the Levee, both quite good and also read
Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg which was ok.
Now I need to figure out what I'm going to read this evening, as I won't be in the mood for the two outstanding books, even though I'm enjoying them.