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This book tied everything together perfectly

Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

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I started this book soon after finishing Dead Man’s Walk back in June. I stalled about 100 pages in, and kind of stopped reading.  I didn’t even remember The Vegetarian by Han Kang until my wife asked me about it after hearing that she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Han Kang, that is, not my wife (though, I would totally award my wife a Nobel Prize). Anyway. I talked a co-worker of mine into reading Lonesome Dove a few months ago, and he’s […]

My Stance on Westerns Remains Unchanged – Probably Not for Me

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

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For a woman who enjoys a good Western movie (Tombstone is my jam!), I don’t read a lot – or really any – Westerns. For the 2024 Popsugar Reading Challenge, prompt #11 asks you to read a book in a genre you typically avoid. And since I’d bought an ebook of The Sisters Brothers years ago but never gotten around to reading it, I knew what book I’d use to fill that prompt. The Sisters Brothers was… interesting. Patrick deWitt doesn’t shy away from describing […]

A selection of books from the last several months

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry

Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong

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I’ve been pretty terrible this year. I haven’t been reading very much, and what little reading I have done hasn’t inspired much writing. So I’m just going to throw these reviews into a box, just to remind myself that I like doing this. Y: The Last Man (Vol. 1) (3 stars) Set in a post-apocalyptic America where all mammals with a Y-chromosome (including sperm and embryos) suddenly and simultaneously die – except for Yorick Brown and his pet monkey, Ampersand. What’s left is a world […]

Just Your Basic Oklahoma Western

Cimarron by Edna Ferber

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I do love me some Edna Ferber.  The thing about her books is that they always read like big Technicolor epic movies, way before such a thing existed.  They certainly didn’t in 1929, when this was published.  But so many have been turned into such, like this book (twice, first time winning one of the first Best Picture Academy Awards), Show Boat, Giant, and Saratoga Trunk, to name a few. So our hero, Yancy Cravat, is a hot bull-headed force of nature.  Think Clark Gable […]

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it.”

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

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I really liked this one! But the ending didn’t do as much for me as the first 1/3 did. It all wrapped up too fast and too neatly for me. I wanted to see the struggle and the nitty gritty details! But then again, I nearly always appreciate a longer book over a shorter one, so this very could be just a me thing here and you might love it (as the rest of my book club did!) Lone Women takes place around 1915 in […]

Pioneer Woman

Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

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Frontier Grit – 3.5 stars In this book we meet twelve women who traversed the American frontier in search of their dreams, though what these dreams were and the paths they took to them vary extraordinarily. As a child I devoured Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. Though I’ve have quite a lot of bubbles burst about her depiction of her childhood (check out Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires to learn more), my interest in those so-called pioneers who tried to ‘tame’ the Wild West still persists, […]



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