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Everything That's in My Attic

  • I Got The Notion

    I already published last week’s list when I saw I mixed up my own format I had decided at the beginning of the year. Majestic, The Jammin Kid & Celine Dion – Set My Heart On Fire (I’m Alive x And The Beat Goes On) Barbra Streisand – Love Will Survive (from The Tattooist of Continue reading

  • This Morning We Had Pancakes

    BabbittSinclair Lewis A dinner two weeks off, even a family dinner, never seems so appalling, till the two weeks have astoundingly disappeared and one comes dismayed to the ambushed hour. They had to change the date, because of their own dinner to the McKelveys, but at last they gloomily drove out to the Overbrooks’ house Continue reading

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  • That Smoky Beat

    Main StreetSinclair Lewis She discovered that to produce one perfect stage-picture would be as difficult as to turn all of Gopher Prairie into a Georgian garden. She read all she could find regarding staging, she bought paint and light wood; she borrowed furniture and drapes unscrupulously; she made Kennicott turn carpenter. She collided with the Continue reading

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  • A Crate of Papaya

    The JungleUpton Sinclair A sob choked Stanislovas, and he stopped. “What’s the matter with Marija?” cried Jurgis. “She’s cut her hand!” said the boy. “She’s cut it bad, this time, worse than before. She can’t work and it’s all turning green, and the company doctor says she may–she may have to have it cut off. Continue reading

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  • Warm Below the Storm

    The Octopus: A Story of CaliforniaFrank Norris Instead of driving or riding into Bonneville, as he usually did, Annixter took an early morning train, the Bakersfield-Fresno local at Guadalajara, and went to Bonneville by rail, arriving there at twenty minutes after seven and breakfasting by appointment with Magnus Derrick and Osterman at the Yosemite House, Continue reading

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  • I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them!

    I thought we were done with all the Thornton W. Burgess books, but I still had a gecko supply me with a title. McTeagueFrank Norris “I know, I know,” answered her husband. “But I got a new patient this week, had two molars and an upper incisor filled at the very first sitting, and he’s Continue reading

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  • My Circus, My Monkey

    I won’t wait as long as the end of this upcoming Sunday, but I’m not in a hurry to type up this week’s My Discovery Mix. Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks With a CircusJames Otis This piteous appeal seemed to have no effect upon the cruel man, and he continued to whip the boy, despite Continue reading

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  • Time is So Unkind

    I’ve waited til the last possible minute to post this weeks’ My Discovery Mix. This particular list is hardly anything I ever listen to on purpose. I do not believe any kind of tracking or algorithm is used in compiling these lists, and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that other people have identical lists Continue reading

  • Get It While It’s Easy

    Raggedy Andy StoriesIntroducing the Little Rag Brother of Raggedy AnnJohnny Gruelle Leaning out, he could look along the new shiny tin gutter the men had put in place. “Here’s a grand place to have a lovely slide!” he said as he gave one of the penny dolls a scoot down the shiny tin gutter. “Whee! Continue reading

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  • Should Be Dressed In Lace

    Raggedy Ann StoriesJohnny Gruelle As Raggedy Ann hit the ground the new puppy dog caught her dress and ran with her across the bridge, Fido barking close behind him. In the center of the bridge, Fido caught up with the new puppy dog and they had a lively tug-of-war with Raggedy Ann stretched between then. Continue reading

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