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For the better part of the past year, I lived a few hours at a time with Virginia in [amazon 0156619121 inline]. I laughed a lot. I quarreled with her sometimes. I thought, oh! You think that too! when she was uncertain of her writing. The last few pages I lived through the Battle of Britain with her, and up until the last couple of months I could not imagine her killing herself. She talks often of wanting ten more years. But then, her homes in London bombed, her favorite walks, her country refuge more a prison than anything else, with her old London life gone. Read more about Woolf

A journey into an America even more lost now than when he first made this trip in the late 70's (it was published in '82). I've driven some of those [amazon 0316353299 inline] , but I never could have driven them as deeply as William Least Heat-Moon. Highly recommended for a trip in the sorta-way-back machine. Read more about Blue Highways, William Least Heatmoon