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#bookreport

Finished This House of Sky for #montana, which I loved. More than halfway through Garp for #newhampshire, which I‘m liking, not loving. #unpopularopinion

Working my way slowly through The Romanovs - at around 55% now, but it‘s a bit of a chunkster.

Read Topics of Conversation as an ARC from #netgalley - really didn‘t like that and hated Fear and Loathing!

All in all, a bit of a mixed week!

This is a beautifully written book about relationships, both human relationships and those with the land and the world around us.

Doig draws us into his hardscrabble life, growing up in #montana with his Father and Grandma and, even though you feel the hardship, his descriptive writing makes you want to experience that way of life.

#nfnov
#readingUSA2019 (Only one more state to go! 😁)

Loving this book so far, for both #nfnov and for #montana #readingUSA2019....

This image made me smile - how cute is this?! Little kids trying to hide flat on the ground behind their lunchboxes...

I just signed up for #nonfictionnovember #nfnov.....

The first three books are also #doubledipping for #ReadingUSA2019. I only picked 6 so far but I‘ve just been through my (physical) TBR shelf and there‘s at least another 20....

Looking forward to it! Visit @Clwojick or @rsteve388 if you want to join in too.....

Today‘s book mail. I ordered the book (a used copy) for both #nfnov and #readingUSA2019 - #doubledipping!

The card and horribly cute bookmark are from the lovely @TrishB - hope your trip has gone well 😘

Doig‘s memoir speaks to the formative power of family: a father, a mother, a grandmother— people who loved him and nurtured him before sending him into the wider world. It‘s also a memoir of Western Montana‘s rugged wildness and how land shaped the life story. One could polish this off in an afternoon—but more satisfactorily, one may linger between the lines, savoring prose and poetry, the clear-eyed honesty and haunting nostalgia of Doig‘s voice.

An American frontier classic, apparently. The early Montana ranch scene setting was moderately interesting to a point, then it fizzled out for me and I realized my energy was maybe best directed elsewhere.

Beginning this for Book Club - my first Doig title.

This beautiful book makes me long for a simpler time under the wide open sky!! It is a love story about a boy and his father. The writing is poetic and lyrical. I will be reading many more of his books!