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Show -2- This v;as true of several manuscripts of personal reminiscences, "Is This a Trading Post?"-"Five Only Children"-and "The bay h7e Was." Each looked back on the writer's experiences, some of them really quite interesting, but again without the focus and interpretation needed to bring the reader along effortlessly. I kept saying, now, this is good raw material, if the author would just do something with it. Too often it came out more like "I remember this and I remember that--and I remember this and I remember that." I kept comparing these to Rodello Hunter's House of '"any Rooms t and none of them had the clarity and focus and charm that she managed to get. |