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Tamra

God's Country: A Novel | Percival Everett

Got myself a western spoof! 🤠👏🏾 Everette is such a fantastic satirist that I‘m looking forward to it when I get there.

JenP I love his books! Haven‘t read this one. Looking forward to seeing what you think 4h

Tamra Apparently this is his second “western!” The first is

Walk Me to the Distance: A Novel

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OutAndAbout

Red Rabbit | Alex Grecian

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Amazing! Audio narrator helped keep a big list of characters separate. Witches, ghosts, ghouls, cannibals, all set in late 19th century Kansas. A quest worth joining! Plus a love story and humorous twists. High recommend.

RavenclawOwlCat I loved this one! 2w

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Jen2

Streets of Laredo | Larry McMurtry

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Enjoyed it.

Octoberwoman I love this series. This one was not quite as outstanding as Lonesome Dove but a close second. 2w

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JanuarieTimewalker13

West: A Novel | Carys Davies

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Wow, for 149 pages, this book packs a punch. A man leaves his 10 year old daughter to go on a questionable quest. The journey that ensues is interesting but there are some terrifying moments for his daughter. I loved the character Old Woman From A Distance.

JanuarieTimewalker13 3/24/25: Book 7 3w

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LiteraryHoarderPenny

Lonesome Dove: A Novel | Larry McMurtry

Been in a bit of a slump (feels like for the past 3 months!! Nothing has knocked my socks off) so I‘m going to buddy read Lonesome Dove with my fellow Hoarder Elizabeth. Everyone and everyone has proclaimed this to be fantastic. Which scares me because what happens if it‘s not?? 858 pages of pretty small print though 😮 Here I go!!

Bookbuyingaddict How‘s it going ? Also on my TBR inspired to pick it up now after loving 🥰 1883 and 1923 the duttons tv series not started Yellowstone yet 6d

LiteraryHoarderPenny @Bookbuyingaddict well. I put it aside for now. Wrote up a giant DNF review but it‘s been suggested to try again. I gave 40% of it and read a part that I was so disgusted by and that it was even written and decided to stop. Didn‘t give a shit what happened to these men. But I‘m going to read another book and maybe, maybe we‘ll see, pick it up one more time. 😜 it was slow and painful. 5d

Bookbuyingaddict Oh dear 😅 that‘s what‘s put me off ! But yet it‘s hailed as the great 👍 American novel , I loved 1883 and 1923 on tv have you watched them ? It‘s inspired me to read it . Try the son by Phillip heyer it‘s brilliant 🤩 5d

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Bookbuyingaddict Ps what happened ? Don‘t mind a spoiler it may help me decide whether to read it or not 🥰 5d

LiteraryHoarderPenny @Bookbuyingaddict I think I have The Son in audio! I know it‘s so crazy how many say it‘s the best book ever. My friend is continuing to read it and we‘ll see how she does beyond the part I threw in the towel. If she reads past and says it‘s better, I may try and return to it. 5d

LiteraryHoarderPenny @Bookbuyingaddict a scene with a much secondary character finds himself in a home with an old POS shit man that says he bought some young girl and proceeds to beat her. He says he‘s not getting involved because “shrugs” it‘s not his business and walks out. It‘s a completely unnecessary and gratuitous scene and I questioned why it was even written? What was the purpose of including that? I was very turned off from already not liking it. 5d

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TheBookgeekFrau

By Sorrow's River: A Novel | Larry McMurtry

#CoverStories #River

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🐴 4w

Eggs #coverlove !! 4w

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rmaclean4

The Heart in Winter: A Novel | Kevin Barry

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#walterscottprize I could see, smell, and feel the setting of the historic fiction love story. It is a brutal love tale set in an unforgiving land written in lyrical poetry. A big thumbs up. 4 🌟

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Therewillbebooks

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Ron Hansen

Bought a used book this weekend!

Butterfinger My mom would sing a song - Jesse had a wife who mourned for his life/His children they were brave/But that dirty little coward - who shot Mr. Howard/And lay poor old Jesse in his grave. I had not thought of that song in ages. 1mo

Therewillbebooks @Butterfinger Springsteen does a version of that song! 1mo

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rachaich

West: A Novel | Carys Davies

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Brilliant book, thrilled to have found this in a second hand shop. It's a great tale and full of description of the interior of the USA in the 1800s. Her writing is sublime.

Tamra Carys Davies is auto buy for me - I‘ve loved everything she‘s written! (edited) 1mo

Cathythoughts ❤️ 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel | Zane Grey

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It's done! Apparently knowing a book exists outside copyright and can be fetched at any time for free by accessing Project Gutenberg or YouTube audiobooks means I do not make it a priority to actually finish it. With fairly LARGE caveats: the racist stereotypes of indigenous people tossed around in casual speech (no actual indigenous characters), 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? and, despite the frequent attempts to note there are good Mormons, the pretty obvious bias of the writing against Mormons, and occasional condescending, patriarchal view of female characters, I was still rather impressed with this book.
The pacing and storyline is compelling, the characters are well fleshed out. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Up until the last moment, you don't know for certain whether certain people will manage to stay together or live (happily ever after?), the stakes are heightened by various deaths and losses throughout the story. There are also a number of mysteries in the murky backgrounds of characters so you get dramatic reveals. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? As an atheist, I can only be happy to see a narrative where a woman who generously helped her community, opposed intolerance to aid the less fortunate, and did not surrender her agency to an undesirable partner, then recognizes the corrupt, cult-like, oppressive nature of the religion she was born and raised in, and took steps to separate her faith from observance of religious doctrine, 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? especially wrestling with questioning the revering of any religious leader as something more holy and powerful than any human should demand. I could have happily seen the God stuff done away with completely, but it's apparent that wasn't an option that occurred to Grey. I wish I had a better historical idea of whether this book was considered hateful towards a religious sect, 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/? an example of the prevailing attitude of the time, or groundbreaking in its own right.
While Jane's internal struggle, the discussion of religion, is the primary theme, there was a good deal of exploration around the theme of outcasts/isolation/loneliness (I can only imagine how many Wild West characters really needed a hug) and found family. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/? Also, people figuring out where they draw the line in their own personal ethics, outside of scripture, especially in relation to looking after those they care about. Morally grey? 🤔 There did seem to be a lot of shooting at the end there.
I'd also like to take a moment to heap praise on Zane Grey's ability to describe a landscape and the experience of riding a horse. The atmosphere! 😍 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 8/? The colour and the light as it falls on rock and sage, reverence for paradisiacal safe havens where things are green and wildlife abounds. There are some lovely illustrations (paintings?) that come even with the Project Gutenberg digital version, but they don't hold a candle to Grey's words. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 9/? And yeah, the way horses are described, the chases and escapes, this is as close as I'll ever come to being a horse girl. Sadly, not every beautiful beastie makes it out. [The dogs live. 🙏🏻]
It may have taken me seven months to get back to it, but I'm glad I read it. Will I pick up another Zane Grey? Maybe. Maybe I'll read the synopsis first, this time. 😅 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 10/10 I think it's fair to say my hunch that I could enjoy early Westerns has proved correct.
⚠️Mention of animal cruelty, animal death, period typical racist stereotypes, misogyny 2mo

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