Re: Lotsa gaigins
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
>
> > I was reading John Menadue's autobiography a few years back (my mother
> > sends me copies of the autobiographies of just about anyone who
> > converts to Catholicism)
>
> Declan, if you need a home for any of those autobiographies, just
> contact me offline (john@rarebooksinjapan.com) and let me know. I may be
> able to do something with them.
Oh they have a home, one of the spare bedrooms upstairs has become a
very badly organised library. So far everything she has sent has made
for a good read, and often a good re-read too. Often they are people I
haven't heard of before, or because of the nationality of the subject
are books not usually available in Japan or on Amazon. It is just a
somewhat unusual criteria in the selection.
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