After my September column about Linda Lightfoot, a retired Louisiana journalist who’s kept a record of her reading life since 2005, I heard from Tricia Day, who thought I should know about the reading journal kept by her late mother, Kitty Day, from 1937 until her death at 89 in 2007.

Kitty’s legacy lives on through Kitty’s Books, a book club with half a dozen members who read and discuss titles from Kitty’s reading journal.

The club meets regularly in Baton Rouge, home base for much of the Day family. Tricia Day and her sister Susan Crowther are members, and they like to keep the group small to encourage good conversation. Another sister, Jane Edwards, might start her own version of the club where she lives in Montgomery, Alabama.

I recently met Tricia, a retired dyslexia specialist, a

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