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[Merrily I Read] Book Review: Girl About Town, Chapters Four-Five

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CHAPTER IV: A man and woman are having a conversation; but it is no ordinary conversation, for they are flirting! The opening of Chapter IV finds Our Heroine, Anne Hartley, and her train buddy, Peter Foster (a.k.a. Nice Young Man), … Continue reading →

[Merrily I Read] Book Review: Girl About Town, Chapters One-Three

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INFO: TITLE: GIRL ABOUT TOWN AUTHOR: KATHERINE PENT YEAR PUBLISHED: 1937 PUBLISHER: HILLMAN CURL, INC. (A STREAMLINED ROMANCE) CHAPTER I:  Two women are having a conversation; but it is no ordinary conversation, for they are worried! Or, rather, the one … Continue reading →

[Merrily I Read] Girl About Town: Educational Marginalia

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My copy of Girl About Town has some interesting, and unusually informative, marginalia. At one point, it belonged to “College Libraries” (“The Convenient Reader Service”) in Dayton, Ohio: Fortunately, it doesn’t say anything about not using their property as a … Continue reading →

Introducing Our Newest Feature, Merrily I Read!

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Musty-smelling old books are my jam. The ones I like best have beautiful designs carved into worn hardbacks, patterned endpapers, and thick pages sporadically covered with obscure marginalia. They come with secret histories, impenetrable and mysterious pedigrees of ownership that … Continue reading →