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Plainsong
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
"Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a narrative that builds in strength and feeling until, as in a choral chant, the voices in the book surround, transport, and lift the reader off the ground."-FROM THE CITATION FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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GinaKButler
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Up next for a bingo! My February #doublespin and my March #bookspin …just a little bit late! 😂

It‘s also on my #unreadbookshelf list!

@TheAromaofBooks #bookspinbingo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!!! 7mo
Amiable Oh, I adore Kent Haruf. 🥰 7mo
GinaKButler @Amiable He is on my list of authors I‘d like to read more of! 7mo
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JamieArc
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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April‘s #Bookspin list. May the book gods pick a good number!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 8mo
JamieArc BS 11, DS 2 7mo
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GinaKButler
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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My March #bookspin and #doublespin

Looking forward to a great month! Thank you so much for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! Enjoy!!! 9mo
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Anna40
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Some characters might be too cliche - either good hearted or mean but what a treat this book was: The writing, the characters, peeking into their lives and into what community life in a small farming town in Colorado could be like. Loved it. Looking forward to Evensong.

Tamra I love his writing! 1y
Anna40 @Tamra yes, absolutely loved this one and Our Souls at Night. Do you know if there‘s a collection of his short stories? 1y
Tamra @Anna40 I‘m not aware of one, but that would be wonderful. Let me know if you find a collection! 1y
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Anna40 @Tamra ok! Will do 1y
Megabooks I loved this too! 1y
Anna40 @Megabooks I know :). I read your review after I posted mine. I‘m surprised they haven‘t adapted it for a movie 1y
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CRR
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Someone I met recently said this was their favorite book so I picked it up and read it. The book weaves together a few different stories into one loose story in the end. There were some really beautiful parts and a couple that were confusing for me. I enjoyed it. I‘d be interested to read other books by the same author.

Reggie Our Souls at Night by him is so wonderful and tender. I haven‘t read any others of his. 2y
CRR @Reggie I would like to read more of his books so will look for that one. Thanks! 2y
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Megabooks
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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First 5⭐️ of the year goes to this #ALSpine pick! Thanks to @Emilymdxn this finally got read after 8 years on my kindle!

This novel set in a small town on the high plains of Colorado is full of stark, quiet beauty. A man raises two young boys after his chronically ill wife moves to Denver. Two old bachelor brothers take in a teenage girl whose come up unmarried and pregnant. Kind people are treated well here. I‘ll definitely continue the series!

TheKidUpstairs Ooh, definitely stacking. I love the idea of a quiet, beautiful read with kind people. 2y
monalyisha @TheKidUpstairs My thinking exactly! 2y
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Suet624 I loved this book but I had no idea it was a trilogy. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 2y
Deblovestoread Love his books! 2y
Sapphire I really enjoyed this book 2y
Megabooks @TheKidUpstairs @monalyisha it was definitely a breath of fresh air! 2y
Megabooks @Suet624 yes! My library doesn‘t have the second one ➡️ 2y
Megabooks @Suet624 but fortunately they have the third. ➡️ so I only have one to buy! 2y
Megabooks @Deblovestoread I loved our souls, so I‘m glad to have finally read a second one! 2y
Megabooks @Sapphire 💯 agree! 🙌🏻 2y
Megabooks And this is my #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks !! 👏🏻🤩 2y
Suet624 Darn. Just two more books to stack. 2y
Cinfhen This was a series I devoured!!! SOOOO GOOD!!! Reminds me of Strout - specifically 2y
Cinfhen Fun photo 2y
squirrelbrain I‘ve only read Our Souls, and loved it, so I need to get to these. 2y
Chelsea.Poole You‘ve persuaded me again! Stacked! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
youneverarrived Oh I loved this so much ❤️ 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen yes! I can definitely see the comparison. 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen last year was Lucy, so hopefully this year is Olive‘s turn! 2y
Megabooks @squirrelbrain I definitely you‘d enjoy this! 2y
Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole you too Chelsea! This is right up your alley. 2y
Megabooks @youneverarrived once again 👯‍♀️😁 a past epic match from @monalyisha !! 2y
Megabooks @TheAromaofBooks 😁😁😁 2y
Emilymdxn Stark quiet beauty is absolutely right! I loved the rest of the series too, this author really can‘t go wrong 2y
Megabooks @Emilymdxn so excited! I have it on my list to look for Eventide at the used bookstore this weekend! My library has Benediction. 2y
BarbaraBB I loved this one too but I read it so long ago that i don‘t remember much. Your first 5⭐️though! 2y
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Megabooks
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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I am quite happy with how things ended up with my #bookspin and #doublespin.

Plainsong, which I have owned since 2015 🫣, is on @Emilymdxn ‘s #ALSpine list, and I started it this morning before the draw. Only a couple of chapters in, but I‘m really enjoying it!

Seven Steeples is a bargain book find that just happened to be on the #toblonglist, so I‘m excited to read it too!

jlhammar Plainsong is wonderful. Hope you enjoy! I‘m looking forward to Seven Steeples. Planning to get to it in March. 2y
Cinfhen I LOVED plainsong and the entire series 2y
Soubhiville I‘m another Plainsong fan. I love everything I‘ve read by that author. 2y
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
Jess Looking forward to seeing what you think of Seven Steeples. I had it in my hand the other day, put it back but am still thinking about picking it up. 2y
Emilymdxn I really hope you love it!! Just letting you know, I‘m super excited to read tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow but I have a big masters deadline on the 9th so I‘ll be starting it when that‘s handed in 🥳 2y
Megabooks @Emilymdxn yes! I‘ve found 4 from your list I hope to read this month. I‘m about to finish Head Full of Ghosts on audio (great gothic tale!), Will and Testament on audio, then Plainsong and The Bell Jar in print. Please don‘t feel you have to read that many from my list! Good luck meeting you deadline! Grad school can be tough and time consuming for sure. I hope you enjoy Tomorrow x3 as much as I did! 👍🏻 2y
Megabooks @jlhammar @Soubhiville I‘m really enjoying plainsong! Fantastic characters! 2y
Megabooks @Jess I‘ll tag you in my review if you want. I‘m excited for it! 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen would it work for #PartOfaTrilogy? And also, I think Babel would work for #GaslampFantasy because it‘s set in Victorian times?? What you you think #Booked2023 organizer?? I‘m really enjoying Plainsong. 👍🏻💜 2y
Cinfhen Yessssss!!! Wonderful choice for trilogy and I think Babel would work for #GasLightFantasy 🙌🏻❣️brilliant thinking 😘 2y
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erzascarletbookgasm
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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#AlphabetGame #letterP

Gentle, quiet, and eloquently told, Plainsong is about ordinary people in a small town facing difficult choices in life. There‘s no plot twist or dramatic plot yet I found the story engaging and beautiful.

Graywacke I really enjoyed Our Souls at Night. I would like to read this too. 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing! 📚 2y
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Christyco125
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Another month of great choices that make it hard to pick a favorite. I decided to go with Plainsong as my monthly and bracket winner, due to its beautiful and simple story, and the high likelihood I‘ll read it again.
I hope July shapes up to be as good as the last two months.

#2022ReadingBracket

fredamans Horrorstor is my BOTM too!!! 2y
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Christyco125
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Pickpick

There is something about the slow and even build of a Haruf novel that is so satisfying. It isn‘t an action-packed thriller but there still so much going on under the surface. Another beautiful story.

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Donna1980
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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This book is like a gentle breeze on a summer‘s day. It leaves you with a deep seeded contentment that only the most special books can. Offering a window into the soul of small town America, I was mesmerised by the beautiful storytelling from the first page. This is a book that will stay with you long after you have carefully placed it on your bookshelf. To be read again multiple times in the future.

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Donna1980
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Blue skies, a beautiful book and a long weekend. Book lovers bliss 😍

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peacegypsy
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Pickpick

This beautiful book captures the essence of life and the truth in small-town characters. Heartening; just a delightful group of characters that you will know. If you don‘t, meet them here.

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peacegypsy
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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On to this simplistic yet holistic novel.

KellyK One of my favorites! 🤓📚❤️ 3y
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Emilymdxn
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Quick book journal update on my attempt to scale #mountbr in 2022! I‘m on a quite strict book buying ban for another 45 days and trying to reduce my owned tbr mountain by 100 books in 2022. Here‘s where we are so far!

Reading through books I‘ve bought but failed to read helps me feel like I‘m earning back wasted money which is a nice feeling.

Hooked_on_books Good luck with your book reduction! It‘s a path I‘ve been trying to travel for years, and I finally found a method that works for me about 3 years ago. My goal was to reduce by 100 or more each year, but I haven‘t managed to get there. I have managed to reduce by over 50 for the past two years, so I call that a win! 3y
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Emilymdxn
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Pickpick

I loved this book so much. It felt like a true great American novel, tender, expansive and managing to do so much without ever feeling pretentious or like it was trying too hard. I loved the simple, spare prose and how rich and subtle the characters were. The two old brothers‘ interactions with the pregnant high school girl made my heart ache. I loved this so much

Tamra It‘s a good one! It deserves a reread for me. 3y
ponyflorist A lovely writer 🙂 3y
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rwmg
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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#sunlightwellness

Re-reading this for book club. Hope I feel more positive to it than I did first time round.

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Becker
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Pickpick

I love everything that Kent Haruf wrote. He writes the most endearing characters. 🤱

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youneverarrived
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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What a beautiful novel. Haruf has this way of making you care deeply about his characters; I‘m left imagining how the rest of their lives unfold. It starts out slow but draws you in completely and has a quiet sort of feel to it but with the drama of a small town and it‘s inhabitants. I do love a book set in rural America & would highly recommend this if you do too. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

jdiehr I've had this on my shelf for ages. Might have to move it up the TBR list 4y
vivastory I completely agree. I really need to read more Haruf as I loved this one. 4y
youneverarrived @jdiehr it‘s definitely worth moving up 😀 4y
youneverarrived @vivastory Our Souls at Night has a similar small town, quiet feel to it. 4y
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youneverarrived
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Book, bath and wine 🥰

Our Souls at Night by Haruf is one of my favourite books so I‘m hoping this will be a good one too.

Cathythoughts Enjoy 😊 4y
Tamra This is a good read! 4y
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Liz_M Looks like a perfect evening. I may have to emulate it. 4y
youneverarrived @Tamra ohh good to hear it! I‘m not too far into it yet but I‘m liking it. 4y
youneverarrived @Liz_M it has to be one of the best ways to totally relax 📖🍷 4y
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rwmg
Plainsong | Kent Haruf

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/november/speech-mark-fiction-disappearin...

Plainsong doesn't use speech marks. For that reason somebody in my bookclub decided to listen to an audiobook version. But can an audiobook convey that stylistic choice of the author and if not, does it matter?

Soubhiville I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I‘d say they make up half my reading, since I can listen while driving to work and while working. In some cases I can focus better on the audio, especially with nonfiction. I suppose in cases of punctuation or novels in verse you miss those details when not eyeball reading, but the story is the same either way. 4y
rwmg @Soubhiville I don't think I could do that. I have a very monotasking mind, especially when it comes to langauge. i am miserable if there are lots of conversations going on round me at the same time because I can't pick out and follow one. I used to be able to read while the TV was on but I've lost that ability as I got older. 4y
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rwmg
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
Mehso-so

I found the extreme plainness of the style rather affected for much of this book and it was only when the feud between Tom Guthrie and the Bowmans started to escalate and when Victoria decided to come back to Holt from Denver that I really got interested in the characters and the story. I spent much of the book wondering how the two narrative threads were going to link up, and even at the end I felt they hadn't really.

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rwmg
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Allylu
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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My #BookSpinBingo board for August. Let‘s see how we go!

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 4y
Bklover How do you get 25 pics in there? My PicCollage will only do 20! This is great! 4y
Allylu @Bklover It was one of the options under Layout. I had to slide the images around a little so you could get an idea which book it was. Thanks. I‘m an amateur. 4y
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steph_phanie
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Highly #recommend! Plainsong is a quiet, endearing novel about life in a small town. It follows an oddball cast of characters over the course of a school year. Gotta love the McPheron brothers! Because of them, I am shelving this right next to A Man Called Ove. 💙

I absolutely want to read more by #KentHaruf. Anyone care to recommend which of his books I should read next? Any you particularly love?

Thousand-Lives I‘ve been meaning to read this. I think I will bump it up on my list! I loved (edited) 4y
steph_phanie @Thousand-Lives ooh thanks! I will check it out! 4y
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Jas16
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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I read this book about a million years ago but remembered basically nothing about it. Al of the recent Litsy love convinced me to pick up a copy for a reread and I am so glad that I did. Such a lovely book to get spend a few hours in and I think I appreciated it more at this point in my life.

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Mtroiano
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Bevita
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Kent Haruf is one of my new favorite authors. This one also set in Eastern Colorado, about a pregnant girl taken in by two bachelor farmers and two boys abandoned by their mother. Simple and moving. Plainsong is the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.

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TerriGreen
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This sparse, quiet book with no quotation marks took me to a small Colorado town where I met a pregnant teen, 2 farmers with hearts of gold and 2 young brothers whose parents are separating. Beautifully written! 5⭐️ book18

Tracyantoon No quotation marks?! Did you find that distracting at all or no big deal? 5y
TerriGreen @Tracyantoon A small learning curve, then it was no big deal. 5y
Tracyantoon I have another book from this author on my TBR. Glad you loved this! Yay for 5⭐️ reads!! 5y
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steph_phanie
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Stopped into The Last Bookstore while in LA today! I highly recommend checking this place out if you ever get the chance. Really neat place for used books, records, and local art! I purchased the tagged book.
#thelastbookstore #stacks #usedbooks #losangeles

Louise Nice t-shirt! 5y
steph_phanie @Louise thank you!! 5y
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perfectlywinged
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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The characters are so good in this book I want to chat with all of them IRL

ElaineR Been on my list for years but never got round to reading. One for #bookspin maybe. Hope you're enjoying it. 5y
perfectlywinged @ElaineR this book has been recommended to me so many times. Plot wise it‘s not fast moving but it‘s well written and I can‘t put it down I am so interested in these characters. 5y
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Bookwormjillk
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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This was my #OneWordTitle for #ReadWithMrBook

I was happy to get this off my TBR and really enjoyed the story even if the author didn‘t use quotation marks.

This would work well for a February #Tearjerker as well.

rockpools Ooh! This is on my shelf, and I don‘t have a plan for a tear-jerker yet. Thanks! 5y
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Bookwormjillk
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Pickpick

I liked this book. It was sweet. I picked this off my TBR for #ReadWithMrBook one word title, and I‘d like to read more by Kent Haruf. (This would probably work for next month‘s tearjerker prompt too)

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Bookwormjillk
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No quotation marks 😬

annahenke Surprisingly, I still liked this a lot. 5y
Bookwormjillk @annahenke me too. I ended up reading it all at once. 5y
annahenke Highly recommend his newer novel Our Souls at Night. I liked it even more than this one! 5y
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Blueberry
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Just finished. 3 stars. Very likeable characters but was a little slow at some points. A good comfortvread.

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CarolynM
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Thank you so much, Cindy, for such a fabulous gift. 😘 I love the card, and your kind words, the bookmark is beautiful and I love having my own red string! I think I'll add the book to my stack for Christmas, I really want to read it soon. How lucky we are to be able to share books all around the world!

Freespirit Love it!! 5y
TrishB Very lucky ❤️ 5y
Cinfhen Yay!!! That was quicker than I thought xx enjoy 😊 hope you love this book as much as I did. It‘s a slow burn but I think it‘s going to give you #AllTheFeels 5y
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erzascarletbookgasm ❤️ The book is good, and isn‘t that bookmark gorgeous? 5y
LeahBergen How lovely! 👏🏻👏🏻 5y
Chrissyreadit I love your card! 5y
BarbaraBB That is lovely! 5y
Rissreads Lucky you! 5y
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TrishB
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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#bookreport
Sorry a day late - too busy yesterday 😁
Didn‘t get to Patsy off last weeks forecast- read Plainsong instead. Currently reading Never Have I Ever. Finished the other three and enjoyed them all.

BarbaraBB I missed your review of Girl Woman Other. I will check it out - the thing I like best about these #BookReports! 5y
Cinfhen I hope you love Plainsong 🤞🏽 5y
Cinfhen I see you did!!!! Yay 😁 5y
Blaire A friend just gifted me girl woman other. Will check out your review. 5y
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TrishB
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Pickpick

10 mins to go on train and have finished 😁
What a lovely read, feels like I‘ve lived these characters lives, such beautiful writing
( as a PS for the squeamish I skipped some animal bits!).

Cinfhen I wanted to mention the animal bits but was afraid you‘d skip the book!! Now you have to read book two 5y
Cinfhen I don‘t recall animal bits in book two but there are some human bits 😭😭😭 5y
TrishB @Cinfhen will definitely read the others! I‘m not squeamish about human bits but terrible with animal ones. 5y
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TrishB
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Train reading today- not on my planned reads this week but it shouted at me from my kindle this morning 😁

Cathythoughts I got this one at the time too... look forward to your thoughts 5y
Balibee146 Same as @Cathythoughts plus I nearly, so nearly read straight away too! 5y
AmyG Wonderful book. 5y
Tamra This is a wonderful read! I love Haruf‘s writing. Hope you do too. 5y
TrishB @Cathythoughts @Balibee146 @AmyG @Tamra it was a wonderfully deep, but simple read ❤️ 5y
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Balibee146
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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For UK Littens this is on a time limited deal for #99ponkindle.... Saw @cinfhen praising this very recently so snapped it up. Straight to the top of #mounttbr 👍

Emilymdxn Thanks for posting!! This is on my list of books that I‘ve been wanting to read for ages but haven‘t been able to afford! 5y
Cinfhen Hope you love it as much as I did. The characters felt so real to me. I just finished book 2, equally compelling and heartfelt 5y
TrishB I went and got after @Cinfhen review too! 5y
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Cathythoughts Thankyou ! Great deal ... I‘m off to find my kindle now ... ❤️👍🏻 5y
Tamra So good!!! 5y
MicheleinPhilly Ooooh thanks! 5y
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Cinfhen
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Mission: I will go and find EVERY book written by this brilliant author and read them all. Picked this up off my shelf on a whim and literally did not put it down for 4 hours. (Ok, i did take a bathroom break twice and made myself a cup of tea...hence 2nd bathroom break) A heartbreaking yet hopeful story set in the small town of Holt, Colorado. Told in short chapters and sparse language, I was transfixed. 5 BIG stars and a box of tissues

Ncostell I have this book on my TBR pile, I‘ll have to move it up! 5y
AmyG Our Souls at Night was a favorite...also takes place in Holt if I remember correctly. 5y
MicheleinPhilly I haven‘t read this author yet but I keep meaning to. Might be a good author for 2020 as I suspect I will need frequent soothing. 5y
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Cinfhen I thought so too @AmyG and I see Plainsong is first book in a trilogy 🤗🤗🤗🤗 @Ncostell (edited) 5y
Cinfhen It‘s a little sad at times though @MicheleinPhilly and there are a few cringy moments when they describe the cattle proding 😢😢 but it‘s still really optimistic and worth a few tears 5y
emilyhaldi Oh wow!!! Adding this to my tbr stat!! 5y
Crazeedi I have this book on my shelf, haven't read, must bump up 5y
bookandbedandtea I've been looking for more books set in Colorado, or written by authors from here, so I just bought this book last week! Now I'm extra eager to read it. 5y
Cinfhen I hope I‘m not OVER selling it @bookandbedandtea @Crazeedi @emilyhaldi BUT I just loved it!!! I downloaded book 2 already 5y
BarbaraBB I loved this one too. And of course 5y
Crazeedi @BarbaraBB isnt that the book he wrote when he was dying? Or his wife was? I remember r5something about the last book 5y
CarolynM You and @BarbaraBB both loved this? Well, I have to stack it, don't I? 5y
Cinfhen I‘d love to send it to you xx @CarolynM 5y
Cinfhen Our souls at night was his last book @Crazeedi before he passed away and it‘s fabulous. Slim and powerful. Really special ~ a must read 5y
CarolynM Thank you Cindy - I'd love that. I'll email you with my address 😘 5y
Cinfhen With pleasure @CarolynM xx 5y
Centique @CarolynM I loved it too! His writing is so restrained. Small actions convey such emotional depth. I think it will be perfect for you. 😍😍😍 5y
Crazeedi @Cinfhen that's the one, I know I want to read 5y
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Soubhiville
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This is a quietly beautiful book about several people in a small town in Colorado. I love this kind of fiction that lets you get to know the characters and gives a real feel for the little struggles in their lives.

I‘ve got another by Haruf on my TBR shelf, and now I‘m looking forward to it.

Zelma I have Plainsong on my shelf, unread. However, I loved Our Souls at Night. It made me want to read more. 5y
Soubhiville @Zelma that‘s the other one I have 😊. Glad to hear you enjoyed it. 5y
Tamra I have loved everything I‘ve read by Haruf. I‘m so glad you liked it! 5y
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LauraBeth I think that him and Elizabeth Strout are masters at that type of writing. 5y
Blaire @LauraBeth completely agree. I love both these authors. 5y
LauraBeth Same @blaire - I love both of them. Who else would you put in this category? 🤔 5y
Soubhiville @Blaire and @LauraBeth I haven‘t read Elizabeth Strout yet but I think I have one of hers on my TBR shelf. I‘d love to know of any other authors/ books that have a similar style or feel! 5y
Blaire @Soubhiville @laurabeth so I‘ve been really thinking on this and I think I‘d put Alice Munro‘s short stories in that category, also Lahore, Stegner, and Marilynne Robinson. 5y
LauraBeth @blaire, @Soubhiville I‘ve never read Munro or Lahore! I‘m going to need to fix that. Definitely Stegner and Robinson. Probably Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard also. 5y
Blaire @LauraBeth sorry litsy did a weird autocorrect. Should say Lahiri. I adore her first book. I need to read Wendell Berry - has been recommended to me many times. Munro packs so much into her stories - really powerful. 5y
Soubhiville @Blaire @LauraBeth thank you for the recommendations! I‘ll add these authors to my list of those to watch for at used bookstores! 📚 5y
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suvata
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Well, that wraps up all the books I added to my TBR in 2015.
❌ = I just couldn‘t / bailed
✅ = Read it and rated it
There were some really good books on this list. I can‘t believe I waited so long to read them.
Now, onto 2016 ...

Cinfhen Love this idea!!!! 5y
suvata @Cinfhen thanks. I just decided that it was time to clean up my TBR list. It really was getting out of hand. LOL 5y
Cinfhen How long did it take you to get through that list?? Were they a combination of ebooks & physical books?. 5y
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Cinfhen I own Plainsong and it‘s been sitting for a long time unread 😜 5y
suvata @Cinfhen they were a combination of physical books, e-books, and audiobooks. I think it took me about two or three months. After I read the five or so books that I am committed to read each month (Book clubs, etc.) I would start tackling the ones from my TBR. 5y
Dragonfairykats Impressive! 5y
LauraBeth Wow! I need to@work through my old TBR list! 5y
Graywacke Cool...and I loved Snow Crash. Wonder if it‘s outdated itself now. 5y
suvata @Graywacke I think it was the writing style that bothered me most. After 50 pages or so, if it doesn‘t interest me, I usually put it down. (edited) 5y
suvata @LauraBeth it‘s actually quite fun. I found quite a few treasures that I may have not read if I didn‘t start this project. 5y
Graywacke @suvata Trying to remember. Something like 1990‘s irreverently/overly cool self-superior geek, iirc. 🙂 5y
twohectobooks I‘m hoping to do something similar to this once I‘ve finished my #modernlibrarytop100 project, ideally sometime next year. The oldest books on my Goodreads tbr are five years old already!! 5y
suvata @twohectobooks Then this would be a good project 5y
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Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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Plainsong is one of those unforgettable books. I wasn‘t sure after reading the first few chapters if I really wanted to continue. But something about Kent Haruf‘s writing style reminded me of John Steinbeck (one of my all time favorites). So, I kept reading and up pops the McPheron brothers and I was instantly hooked. Their relationship with Victoria Roubideaux is something that I will never forget. This is a very special book in so many ways.

quietlycuriouskate Gorgeous book ❤ 5y
Tamra Such a talented writer! 5y
suvata @kathedron @Tamra One of my new favorites 5y
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Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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But, of course! Because I read way past my bedtime. 😝

What would you do?

Hooked_on_books Unless my eyes were physically closing and I was powerless to stop the sleep, I‘d finish. And probably start another. 😂 5y
SharonAlger Yes! 5y
suvata @Hooked_on_books @SharonAlger I just love book people! ❤️ 5y
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TrishB Definitely finish! 5y
Ashley_Nicoletto Heck yeah! You‘re in the home stretch. 5y
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MrBook
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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These were the replenishments for my #AmericanWest-Set Display 😊!

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksDisplays

vivastory Plainsong & The Outsider. Couldn't be more different, but I loved them both. 5y
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HeatherBookNerd
Plainsong | Kent Haruf
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In honor of all the awesome single moms who are parenting solo, I put together a list for @bookriot of 10 novels featuring single mothers. I salute those amazing women!

https://bookriot.com/2019/05/08/novels-about-single-mothers/

#amwriting #mothersday #singlemoms