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Trueblue Texan

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15. Reading non-fiction and fiction.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 05:24 PM
Sunday

Fiction is The World We Knew by Alice Hoffman, set in Nazi Germany. Non-fiction reading The Diary of Anne Frank. Also reading fiction, The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler--Anne Tyler is probably my favorite novelist, but this was early in her career and I just can't figure out what it's about--I think she was having trouble as an author figuring out what her book was about. I have picked it up and put it down a half dozen times in the last 30 years, but I think it is important to finish it as one of the many books in her body of work. Finally, I just finished reading Day After Night by Anita Diamante about post war confinement of Jews in Palestine by the British.

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