Genealogists are detectives. Imagine having 148 diary notebooks as raw evidence in piecing together an ancestor's story.
Now suppose the notebooks were written by an unknown person and recovered from a skip (dumpster). You dip into them and are fascinated. What would you do?
The Guardian carries an article by Alexander Masters on his new book, A Life Discarded, and the surprises he encounters as he reads through the notebooks. Find the article at http://goo.gl/wydThI
via a post on Yoni Freedhoff's Weighty Matters blog.
16 May 2016
Diary of a somebody
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Wow. What a great piece of writing. I will forward to many. Great Snoring, eh? Only in the U.K., as per an earlier Anglo-Celtic blog entry you recently wrote about, John.
Gail B.
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