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Books picked up at the Friends of the Library sale today

I read this book in 1 day. 💚
A widower leaves his daughter to go off across America in search of large wild beasts after reading an article about ancient bones in the newspaper. 🤦🏼‍♀️ His journey is dangerous but his daughter is also in danger left behind. Throughout history men have the privilege of having choices that women don‘t. ‘You had so many ways of deciding which way to live your life. It made his head spin to think of them. ⬇️

5 Stars • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry follows retired Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Woodrow Call as they lead a cattle drive from Texas to Montana in the 1870s. With a diverse crew, including young Newt Dobbs and tracker Joshua Deets, they face Indian raids, bandits, and harsh terrain. The epic journey explores friendship, duty, and the fading Old West, culminating in bittersweet success with heavy losses.

My body in full
sensory delight, no one
but us existed…

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Read. This. Book. You won‘t be sorry. I LOVED it. Mattie Ross is the bomb!! Afterword by Donna Tartt hit my heart big time!! Great dialogue, 1870s Arkansas, Choctaw Nation. Epic retrospective novel. Will be reading more Portis.

Some of the language rubbed me the wrong way but overall there was something about this book.

I‘ve had this on my list for so long, and after loving Clear, I was even more excited for West. It‘s a slim little book but somehow manages to be epic. A father whose wife has recently passed journeys west in search of dinosaur bones, set in early 1800s America. His daughter stays back east with her aunt. There‘s sadness and there‘s longing, grief, familial love, found family, a quest, danger, but also levity. I loved this little book!

I should have liked this because it was compared to Cormac McCarthy. Tom Rourke is nothing like Billy Parham or John Cole. It doesn't have that lovely poetic description of the wilderness, the earnest respect for animals, the yearning for the girls they love.

The book is described as being funny. Where?

It may have been the narrator. He sounded like a killer from a horror film, but I am just not in a hurry to get the print version to see.

I finished the KC Davis book in February but it took till July to read Kilrone.

So, my February #BookSpinBingo is done! 😂

I'll either get caught up by December or just start fresh in 2026!

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Lonesome Dove

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