Scooter Chronicles

Yesterday evening I finished (more or less) “The Nick Adams Stories” by Ernest Hemingway. This is a collection of short stories based around the famous Nick Adams character.

The interesting thing about this collection is that they are all in one book, published this way after Hemingway’s death. Many of the Nick Adams stories appeared in other short story collections, but never all together, and in chronological order of Adams’ life.

Nick Adams’ life closely follows that of Papa’s own life. Father is a doctor. Spent summers as a kid in the northern half of Michigan’s lower peninsula. Fishing for...

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