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Cormac McCarthy‘s scene descriptions and character development pulled me right into the emotional story of The Crossing. It‘s an emotionally heavy read, filled with tragedy and suffering. While also being a beautiful story. I suppose I have this reaction because McCarthy repeatedly offers hope in the story but doesn‘t quite deliver. There isn‘t a man on horseback riding off into the sunset in this ending.

Full review at https://abookandadog.com

#sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

Thanks for the tag @Roary47

1. Very dark road trip on horse - Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing.

2. Currently, I am fascinated by Beatrice Chanler - although real, I learned of her in a novel.

3. Through time.

Will you play @shellleigh33 @Mccall0113

I already loved the first book of this trilogy, and the same goes for the second one. I just adore how McCarthy writes about the borderland between the US and Mexico, how he describes the people, the landscapes, the animals, the feelings. There's so much beauty. In the country, the books, the words. Beauty and love. Deep and astonishing.

@TheAromaOfBooks #BookSpinBingo
@TheSpineView #SeriesRead2021

Day 2 #12Booksof2020 @Andrew65

Not as good as All The Pretty Horses, but I am still glad I read it. One decision for a young boy seemed to turn his whole world upside down and one devastating thing after another happened. Even if he hadn't decided to visit Mexico, who is to say the same events would not have happened? I will not forget Billy Parham anytime soon.

Like wolves, humans need a pack. And if you leave your pack, it takes a lifetime to find your place in this world.

1. Tagged
2. The Martian
3. Two days later riding down the Cloverdale road he turned off for no reason at all and rode out to where the vaqueros had nooned and sat his horse looking down at the dead black fire.

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

#newbookday

#frideas @SailorMoon
1. It changes: today I'll go with 'The Man Who Wasn't There'
2. A Clockwork Orange (haven't read the book yet!)
3. Less Than Zero
4. I don't have one...maybe Steve Buscemi or Faye Dunaway?
5. With McCarthy novels everyone talks about the failed Blood Meridian adaptation attempts- I'd just as soon drop it and try this one- would make a much better film.

Happy Birthday to Cormac McCarthy who was born on this date in 1932.

Wedding planning and McCarthy don‘t mix. This took me a while, but as always, the payoff is spectacular. Haunting, beautiful, mythical, and expansive, this is vintage McCarthy.

This books started out beautiful but I'm struggling to finish it. It feels just a bit too long to me.

#junetunz #wolves
I've been wracking my brains thinking that I wouldn't be able to think of a book with wolves then somewhere in the mass of nonsense in my dustbin of a brain i remembered that a wolf was a central plot point in the brilliant first book of this trilogy (i have book 3 waiting). A wolf is captured by a brother who instead of killing it plans to return it to its homeland, when captured and caged in mexico events occur, yay done!

How could I respond to a #wolves prompt in about other way than with what may be my favorite novel of all time. When a she-wolf wanders into Billy Parham's family's farm, he decides to escort her back over the border after hearing she came from Mexico. The adventure that follows is incredible- thrilling, moving, and thought provoking. #JuneTunz @Cinfhen

Top tier.

#siblings #aprilbookshowers
I started off hunting for my copy of The wasp factory by ian banks as my favourite siblings but inevitably i couldn't find it. So here are 3 other sibling stories that i have enjoyed, f+z deserves a reread, i plan part 3 of the border trilogy soon, and east of eden awaits the reading envy readalong!

#bookhaul The Crossing is in there somewhere 🤗major book sale in Phoenix Az! VNSA for charity ,good prices ,been going on for 61 years!

Matt: "A 15-year-old boy tries to catch a wolf. He's supposed to return home and bring the wolf to his Dad. It turns out that the wolf is pregnant, so instead the boy takes it to Mexico where he believes the wolf's original home is. McCarthy's language is great. It's good to read about the desert and vast land in a place like New York City. I don't think I'd be cut out for this kind of journey. I would probably get eaten by the wolf."

This is my favourite novel. Every word feels critical.

"The night was falling down from the east and the darkness that passed over them came in a sudden breath of cold and stillness and passed on. As if the darkness had a soul itself that was the sun's assassin hurrying to the west as once men did believe, as they may believe again."

Saturday moves.

Well, on the downside I left the book I'm reading at home today...on the upside I always carry a spare McCarthy in case of emergencies. Break glass for beautiful, harsh, scathing examinations of the human spirit.