Saturday, January 30, 2010

Autobiography of Dodie Smith, Volume One

In Volume of the Autobiography of Dodie Smith, Look Back With Love, I find highlight pertinant to the Tacoma Historical emphasis of our current Tacoma Reads Together Childhood visits to relatives of Dodie Smith on her father's side brought her to the brewery her uncle managed - she describes one experience with riding on the brewery wagon horses - and I reflect on Tacoma's Brewery District. A question arises - were there stables with the early brewery, which began in Tacoma in 1900? I continue to read through these remembrances of her childhood in Manchester, England, while scanning ahead a bit to see when she was writing I Capture the Castle, and 101 Dalmations, which featured Pongo the dog detective.

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