I finished reading Julia Glass’ debut novel, Three Junes. It won the 2002 National Book Award. It’s a beautifully written, character-rich story about a Scottish family. My review is up at the Quirky Girls Read blog. Hit the button below or go HERE.
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I just finished reading The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton. It’s an incredible story of frontier life in the Texas Panhandle in 1883. The conflict is between the big ranchers and the cowboys who work for them. It’s a story outlining the real life of the cowboys, not the one you hear about [...] “The horizon was like a perfect circle, a great embrace, and within it lay the cornfields, still green, and the yellow wheat stubble, miles and miles of it, and the pasture lands where the white-faced cattle led lives of utter content,” wrote Willa Cather in The Best Years. Among those fortunate enough to have been [...] Last November I read Louise Penny’s first novel, Still Life. I loved it and knew I wanted to read her second novel, Fatal Grace. She didn’t disappoint me at all. Fatal Grace was the Agatha Award Winner for Best Novel of 2007. That should tell you that lots of people, including me, really liked book [...] |
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