Dear Reader,
Happy Birthday to me...(and to you, if today's also your birthday). I was born at 8 a.m. in Madison, Wisconsin sixty-nine years ago.
It's always interesting to look back and see what was going on the year you were born, so I thought it would be fun to see what people were reading in 1954. Here's what was on the Best Seller lists then:
Nonfiction
- The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version
- The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale
- Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
- Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cook Book
- The Tumult and the Shouting, Grantland Rice
Fiction
- Not as a Stranger, Morton Thompson
- Mary Anne, Daphne du Maurier
- Love Is Eternal, Irving Stone
- The Royal Box, Frances Parkinson Keyes
- The Egyptian, Mika Waltari
If it’s your day, too…Happy Birthday!
(Don’t forget to make a wish before you blow out the candles.)
Thanks for reading with me. It’s so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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- This month's Penguin Classics is To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. I have a copy of the book to share with a lucky reader, so start reading and enter for your chance to win
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