1925

I was eagerly awaiting a new year so I went out and looked one up.

1. Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
2. The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
3. The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton Porter
4. Glorious Apollo by E. Barrington
5. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
6. The Little French Girl by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
7. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
8. The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish
9. The Carolinian by Rafael Sabatini
10. One Increasing Purpose by A.S. M. Hutchinson

Honestly with the exception of Arrowsmith I've never heard of any of these. I have read some other Sabatini in the past Captain Blood I think and it was a roaring good time.

I probably should read something from Gene Stratton-Porter, lest they take away my Upstanding Hoosier Citizen membership card.

I'll try to get some more years done.

Bob

Gene Stratton-Porter was one of my grandmother's favorite authors and she read A Girl of the Limberlost out loud to me when I was young, a wonderful memory for me.

I have read Scaramouche and Captain Blood by Sabatini and really liked them both, but not familiar with the book listed here.

And I read Arrowsmith as a teen and the thought of his wife dying (plague??) because she missed him and put his old cigarette stub in her mouth seemed very romantic to me at the time...maybe I am remembering this incorrectly - it has been a long time! :)

I read Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Pulitzer Prize for 1926) One of my favorite books is also by himElmer Gantry and if you only know it from the movie you are in for a treat if you read it. He was hung in effigy in Indiana when the book was published.

I also have read a few books by Rafael Sabatini and I agree they are great fun adventure stories to read. If you enjoy him you might try H. Rider Haggard who was the reining adenture writer at the turn of the century (19th to 20th) like King Solomons Mines. much of his work is a little dated and not politcally correct by todays standards but they are still fun to read.

I have a first edition of Keeper of the Bees that my grandfather gave to my grandmother as an anniversary gift. I really enjoy Gene Stratton-Porter. I also used to love The Constant Nymph -- I haven't read it in years, but I remember it as a wonderful coming of age story. I haven't read the others.

I must have a serious aversion to books written before my time.

US Non-Fiction

1. Diet and Health, Lulu Hunt Peters 0 copies on LT

2. The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, rev. ed., Fannie Farmer, editor 189 copies various editions

3. When We Were Very Young, A. A. Milne 846 copies

4. The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton 25 copies

5. The Life of Christ, Giovanni Papini 26 copies

6. Ariel, André Maurois 56 copies

7. Twice Thirty, Edward Bok 0 copies

8. Twenty-Five Years: 1892-1916, Viscounty Grey of Falloden aka Lord Grey 1 copy

9. Anatole France Himself, J. J. Brousson 2 copies

10. The Cross Word Puzzle Books, Prosper Buranelli, et al. 1 copy

Fannie Farmer and A.A. Milne, but none of the others.

i have read When we were very young

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It's interesting that the Milne's poetry is considered to be non-fiction. I guess it evens out the various type of books in each list.

I read Arrowsmith and Arlen's The Green Hat, but ad exec Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows has been called the most famous non-fiction book of the 20s. Barton imagines Christ as a muscular and dynamic CEO and pitchman, who selected 12 men as his top execs, and then went on to found the world's most successful company. It became even more popular in 1926 when it was #1 for the year, but it's popularity was squelched in 1929 by the collapse of Wall Street.

I know my husband's grandmother was in a bookclub because several of her books have penciled in schedules of who was reading the books when. I find it terribly amusing that even though they were all special friends, they were always referred to as "Mrs. Thad Lowe", not "Elsie". Ah, the formality of the 20s in the rural South!

From Elsie, via my mother-in-law Anne Lowe, I have The Constant Nymph and The Little French Girl. Quite possibly first editions, although I haven't checked.

Oh, I missed The Constant Nymph. I loved that one.

I might be noted that 2 of my favorite books were both published in 1925: F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, which was originally published in a 2 volume set, and a substantial bestseller too, but didn't quite make the list.

I just received Life of Christ in the mail today. I can't wait to begin.

I have read The Green Hat by Michael Arlen and When we Were Very Young: The Green Hat, which was made in a film (A Woman of affairs) starring Greta Garbo back in the silent era, caused quite a sensation and i gathered it contained scenes of licentious depravity, full of drunkeness, venereal disease and wild living. I expected great things from the book - I was only 13 - but was ultimately disappointed because Michael Arlen wrote with an oblique discretion that all but disguised the racy parts of his tale.

Maybe being thirteen disguised some of the racy parts as well.