Friday, October 11, 2019

44. My Friend Flicka


Title: My Friend Flicka
Author: Mary O'Hara
Year Published:1941

Date Acquired: October 2019
Where Purchased: Received as Gift
Price Paid: n/a

Read Status: Read (December 13, 2019)

Notes/Thoughts

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Washington: City & Capital

Title: Washington: City & Capital
Author: Federal Writer's Project
Year Published: 1937
Year Printed: 1937

Date Acquired: April 27, 2019
Where Purchased: Capitol Hill Books, Washington, DC
Price Paid: $150

Read Status: Read (April 25, 2021)

Notes/Thoughts
  •  Probably way overpaid for this book and could've just got the one without the book jacket for $85 (still had map), but at least it's supporting independent bookstores in person (on Independent Bookstore Day, too) and maybe one day I still can complete the series buying them in person. Almost got a Rivers of America book, but put it back since it was a later 1960s one in that series and this has been my number one want for the American Guide series.
  • "But the crises are not its own - it [Washington City] does no more than reflect (sometimes, it is true, with fringes of distortion) the advancing or retrograde movements of a country's civilization. Above and beneath its myriad illusive aspects, it is essentially the condensing-mirror of national conditions, sentiments and aspirations, the sounding-board of a national vox populi." - p.67

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

43. Green Grass of Wyoming

Title: Green Grass of Wyoming
Author: Mary O'Hara
Year Published:1946

Date Acquired: February 9, 2019
Where Purchased: The Book Stop, Tucson, AZ
Price Paid: $12

Read Status: Read (July 29, 2021)

Notes/Thoughts
  • I have long been trying to find My Friend, Flicka for my 1940s collection as I remember my grandma talking about her horse Flicka, which we assume she named from the book. I didn't even realize it was a trilogy, but now I have all except the one I knew to look for.

42. Thunderhead

Title: Thunderhead
Author: Mary O'Hara
Year Published:1943

Date Acquired: February 9, 2019
Where Purchased: The Book Stop, Tucson, AZ
Price Paid: $6

Read Status: Read (June 6, 2020)

Notes/Thoughts
  • I have long been trying to find My Friend, Flicka for my 1940s collection as I remember my grandma talking about her horse Flicka, which we assume she named from the book. I didn't even realize it was a trilogy, but now I have all except the one I knew to look for.