The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston, 240 pp.

Wow! What fun! I have a very strong sense of nostalgia, so a scrapbook of memorabilia with minimal added text that tells a story is just my thing. So inspiring. It made me want to make one myself. The Scrapbook tells the story of a Frankie Pratt's adventures in high school, at Vassar, and abroad during the 1920s. Because I'm not one to peek ahead, I didn't realize until reading the acknowledgments in the back of the book, that the story was inspired and perhaps based at least partly on the experiences of the author's mother, goddaughter of Sylvia Beach, proprietress of Shakespeare and Co. in 1920s Paris. Loved it.