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Robert Heinlein's "Stranger In a Strange Land" (1961)
Witness by Whittaker Chambers. Most of it is a hard slog. A rewarding slog though , if you are interested in how the Communist Party infiltrated most of the US Government and controlled Foreign and Domestic policy in various levels. An autobiography of a fascinating and important American individual.
Recent read for me. The book was a bit difficult to follow as the characters and timelines would change randomly. I am glad I stuck with it though.
"A Mercy is a 2008 novel by Toni Morrison set in 1680s colonial America, exploring the origins of slavery and racial and class tensions through the interconnected lives of a diverse group of people on a farm, including an enslaved Black girl (Florens), a Native American woman (Lina), a white woman (Rebekka), and their master (Jacob Vaark). Morrison deliberately removes race as the primary factor in servitude, showing how different people—Black, white, and Indigenous—were all subject to bondage, indentured servitude, and exploitation in a world where the lines between "free" and "slave" were blurry. The novel focuses on themes of abandonment, survival, and the search for love and identity in a harsh, patriarchal world, centered on the story of Florens, who is given away by her mother to save her."
"A Mercy is a 2008 novel by Toni Morrison set in 1680s colonial America, exploring the origins of slavery and racial and class tensions through the interconnected lives of a diverse group of people on a farm, including an enslaved Black girl (Florens), a Native American woman (Lina), a white woman (Rebekka), and their master (Jacob Vaark). Morrison deliberately removes race as the primary factor in servitude, showing how different people—Black, white, and Indigenous—were all subject to bondage, indentured servitude, and exploitation in a world where the lines between "free" and "slave" were blurry. The novel focuses on themes of abandonment, survival, and the search for love and identity in a harsh, patriarchal world, centered on the story of Florens, who is given away by her mother to save her."
I have been reading through the journals of the poet and novelist May Sarton. Most of the journals are from the period of her life when she lived in York, Maine, an area I know well.
A Christmas Carol, for the first time.
My goodness, I have done a lot of reading over the course of many, many decades. And somehow, I neglected this treasure. What a remarkable, heartwarming experience to share with my family.
My wife read it aloud to us as a family last year for the first time. You are right, a real Christmas season treasure!
A bit niche, this one, not the encyclopedic work it announces itself to be, but that's Archibald Findlay (1841-1921) for you. HIs book (this is a recent reprint) first appeared in 1905 and is largely an immodest (if true) autobiographical account of the career and achievements of a man who can justly be called the Father Of Potato-Breeding. He elevated it from a hit-or-miss hobby to a science, even if he got one or two things wrong - they didn't know much about genetics in his day. With typical lack of modesty, nearly all the potato varieties he mentions in his book, happen to be his own. One of them, 'British Queen' (dedicated to Queen Victoria), is still around and highly thought of: I shall be growing some of those next spring.
