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Don’t Let ‘Em Tell You that the Book is Always Better than the Movie

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

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The shadow of the Best Picture-winning movie adaptation looms large over this novel, as does the specter of McMurtry’s much better novels, like Lonesome Dove. Terms of Endearment is the story of Aurora Greenway, a widow nearing 50 who derives most of her enjoyment in life from three pursuits: driving her various suitors to distraction with her confounding, contradictory personality, meddling in her maid Rosie’s marraige to a brutal truck driver, and picking away at her daughter Emma’s insecurities. Emma is recently married to a […]

This is a book that I read.

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

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I remember watching Lonesome Dove with my grandparents as a child, although I remember absolutely nothing about the plot (I was probably not actually watching, but reading something while it was on in the background). What I remember most is how much my grandparents liked it. A couple years ago I decided maybe I’d try to read the book. I stopped and started at least 3 times, struggling to have any interest in the lives of a couple retired Texas Rangers. It wasn’t until this year, when […]

Getting caught up on unreviewed books from last year

The Hustler by Walter Tevis

Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

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My world fell apart last November with the election of Donald Trump, and I’m still trying to put the pieces back together. Nothing literal (lucky me). I’ve just spent the past few months detached from….everything outside of my personal bubble. I’m getting back to normal, though. No less angry – but better able to be a part of the world, I guess. Unfortunately, reading has been one of the things that has fallen by the wayside. I haven’t had the mental energy to read and […]

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 […]

I Spied Some Old Cowboys

Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry

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Spoiler Warning: This book is a sequel, and I don’t think I can review it without spoiling Lonesome Dove. Almost two decades have passed since the disastrous cattle drive described in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, and those who survived are spread far and wide across the West. Woodrow Call is getting quite old and missing his friend and partner Augustus McCrae, but he’s still revered enough as a lawman to be hired by the railroad to capture or kill a wild man robbing trains and […]

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 […]



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