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Antelope Like Phantoms in the Snow

The Crossing by Corman McCarthy

June 6, 2026 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Fair warning here – about half the dialogue is in Spanish.  But with just my many decades old Spanish classes from the dim past, it really wasn’t that hard to follow.  It’s pretty simple, and most of it you can get from context.  But.  So you know.  This is the second book from McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, after All the Pretty Horses.  There is no connection between any of the characters, but the milieu is definitely the same. Billy and Boyd Parham are two brothers, sons […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Western Tagged With: Book 2 of the Border Trilogy, Corman McCarthy, Extensive Spanish dilogue but you'll probably get most of it, Glorious descriptions of the setting and its people, late 1930s, New Mexico to Mexico and back, Saving a pregnant wolf, Teenager on a mission, Trying to take her back to Mexico

elderberrywine's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, History, Western · Tags: Book 2 of the Border Trilogy, Corman McCarthy, Extensive Spanish dilogue but you'll probably get most of it, Glorious descriptions of the setting and its people, late 1930s, New Mexico to Mexico and back, Saving a pregnant wolf, Teenager on a mission, Trying to take her back to Mexico ·
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Historical middle grade with unions!

The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores

December 27, 2024 by LB Leave a Comment

The Pecan Sheller is set during the late 1930s and follows Petra, a thirteen-year-old girl who has to leave school and get a job shelling pecans after her father’s death in order to help her Amá pay the bills and take care of Petra’s younger siblings. While working in the pecan factory, Petra makes new friends, but also is confronted with terrible working conditions and seeing many people get tuberculosis and die. When one of her new friends dies and the factory owners want to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: American History, child labor, friendship, historical fiction, late 1930s, Lupe Ruiz-Flores, Mexican Revolution, middle grade, NetGalley, pecan factory union, tuberculosis, Unions

LB's CBR16 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: American History, child labor, friendship, historical fiction, late 1930s, Lupe Ruiz-Flores, Mexican Revolution, middle grade, NetGalley, pecan factory union, tuberculosis, Unions ·
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