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To: KC Burke

No it doesn’t and it’s about a lot more than just her time in Africa. But since you know about Happy Valley and it’s denisons, you might enjoy this book.


73 posted on 01/28/2019 8:03:07 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

You have brought it to my attention and I am looking into the background of that interesting character. Her name, alone, brought to mind Vita Sackville-West. Her nominal husband, Sir Harold Nicholson wrote a great diary which introduced me to the pre-war era politics surrounding Churchill’s rise to power. In my youth in the 60s it was one of the first Diaries of that nature I read and still inspires memories.

My reading is all over the field. I am reading right now a good Dan Jones history of the Knights Templar and just finished a great audio book on Ty Cobb and started Marxism by Tom Sowell. I really like a new biography of Samuel Johnson I am reading and as I knew a young friend of my son’s who had Tourettes Syndrome, I find the modern take now that this is assumed with Johnson to be most interestingly illuminating. I have another 20 I am in one stage or another getting through, but my habit is to leave each book by its own place and pick it up when I sit there. That means that I have ten books over a thousand miles away at a cabin that I only read when I am there.

It sounds more complicated than it is as I have read this way for decades.


75 posted on 01/28/2019 8:27:07 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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