Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"Laura's Luck"
by Marilyn Sachs
[children's fiction, series, summer camp, friendship, 1940s]
"Amy and Laura"
by Marilyn Sachs
[children's fiction, family problems, 1940s]

"Triumph Clear"
by Lorraine Beim
[young adult fiction, polio, Warm Springs]
"Sunshine and Shadow"
by Lorraine and Jerrold Beim
[young adult fiction, college, people with disabilities]
{Lorraine Beim died in an automobile accident while she
was working on this book. Her husband, with whom she had discussed
the novel, finished it.}
This is the dedication Jerrold Beim wrote.
"FOR LORRAINE

with the hope that this book
is near ... what she wanted it to be."

"Italian Pleasures" #
by David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell
[essays, Italy]
{first an essay by one author, then one
by the other, with excerpts from the works
of other writers.}
(I really enjoyed this book, until
one essay near the end ruined it for me.)

"Claudine at St Clare's"
by Enid Blyton
[children's fiction, England, school stories, series]
{carrying over into next week}