From the Improvement Era, April 1948 —
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Rather interesting, I don’t think I’ve heard of any of these before, so perhaps they weren’t all essentials. There’s no Talmage on this list either, so I’d guess this is more a list of what they hoped to sell than what was considered essential reading.
I wonder what today’s list of “progressive reading” books would look like?
Maybe I’m old but I recognized several titles. Growing up my parents had Anderson’s Added Upon and A Story to Tell on the book shelves. Loved reading both of them. I’m not sure that those titles were “progressive.”
Yes, I believe a number of these are (or at least were) on my parents bookshelves.
My answer to the question is “three.”
We had Gospel Doctrine, the three books of Richard L. Evans, A Story to Tell and Added Upon. There may have been others as my father was an avid reader but I can’t remember them.
I am familiar with some of them and own two of them.
I, too, wonder why they call these “progressive reading”?
“You keep using that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means”
That word “progressive” is of course why I posted this ad — some of the old ads use words in a different way than we do today, and it makes me laugh. I can’t imagine Desert Book using this word today as the positive trait they so obviously meant in 1948 (although some of us *would* still consider it a compliment).
See, for instance, this example.
I wonder if you’re supposed to progress through the list. My favorite word in the ad is “another.” If you’ve seen one reading check list, you’ve seen ’em all — no reason to suspect this one is special in any way.
I find this highly amusing. I suppose it technically is “progressive” to read a book and move on to another…
The progressive era was past by this time, but there is no doubt that almost all of these were “progressive” in the technical sense.
I’ve read the Preston Nibley compilations.
Also I suspect this is the only time that anything written by Joseph Fielding Smith has been labeled progressive.
Faith-Promoting Stories…anything about the 3 Nephites and food storage in there?