pickGosh, lots to read but all so softly written. Constance goes to fight instead of Bartholomew. She is strong yet deeply hurt. This story tells of her background, her own mother and those she encounters. His writing is so good.
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pickGosh, lots to read but all so softly written. Constance goes to fight instead of Bartholomew. She is strong yet deeply hurt. This story tells of her background, her own mother and those she encounters. His writing is so good.
pickBeautiful writing despite the sparse sentences with few commas or demonstrative pronouns. But that had a firm purpose-it was the way that Ash spoke. She leaves her husband to manage the farm while she goes off to fight with Union soldiers in the Civil War. Hard to put down with an ending that may surprise you.
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Melancholy (though a cheerful book about the US Civil War would be weird) and written in a sparse somewhat cryptic style. Constance Thompson dresses as a man and marches off to fight for the Union, while her husband stays on their farm in Indiana. The comparisons to Cold Mountain are apt, along with the loose allusions to the Odyssey. A slow read, despite its low page count.
Next row of my #readinglogsnake is Women Warriors by Pamela D. Toler in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. Orange representing nonfiction. This was a good read. I found out a lot about female warriors I was not aware of, like Lakshmi Bai, Buffalo Calf Road Woman, and Cheng I Sao to name a few. Highly recommend this book. 4/5 ⭐️ #ARRCReads #BooksAndCrafts
Picked up a couple books from the library today. I've been looking forward to this one for awhile.
pickIt took me awhile to get into the writing style. Vauge and dreamlike. i had to slow my reading to understand. Civil war era novel about Ash. A wife who leaves her home to fight with the union. She's an unreliable lead that had me trying to guess what was going to happen next and if what she was experiencing was reality. I did like it more than I first thought i would. Warning for graphic descriptions of war and numerous other things. 4 ⭐
Day 11: I‘m following the idea to post a book from my tbr list from @StaceyKondla and @Cortg
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panThis one just wasn't for me. Ash is the strong one in her marriage, so she dresses as a young man and heads off to fight for the Union. She is detached, sometimes dissociated and not particularly reliable.
The style of this one just wasn't for me, sparse but needing to be parsed carefully at times and full of intimation. Rather too literary(?) for my tastes, and I was left rather wondering what the point was...
