So, what are you reading now?

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

$.25 books at the sale table at the library are a great source too.

Just finished "Three Came Home" by Agnes Newton Keith. Tale of a lady interned by the Japanese on Borneo for over three years. She, her young son, and her English husband (in a neighboring camp) all survived, as the title suggests. This was nearly impossible, and she gets the biggest credit for the outcome. But all that's a prisoner story like others.

This book's appeal is the voice and personality of the author. Her pluck and wit are never quite erased by circumstances, and they make the narrative, for all the privation and brutality recounted, nonetheless appealing. And her short introduction is eloquent of the deeper insights that inform this book. I'll reproduce it here:



It was a popular book when it came out in 1947, so you could find it used if you looked. There's also a movie 'based' on it, with Claudet Colbert--fictionalized plenty, to judge by the poster....

Just really read the reproduction section of your post...indicative of deep
thoughts and quality writing.

The book is noted. Thanks!