VARINA by Charles Frazier The person is eminently interesting – the wife of the Confederate President. The era is interesting – the decades before, during, and after the American Civil War. The episodes are fascinating – a Southern white woman raising an enslaved child as her own: the escape of f...
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slav...
The book has progressed and Inman has just been through being caught by military force that has been looking for him. He and Veasey are marched across the country back along where they had already ventured. Finally after a long time of walking, the gaurds decided to shoot the men. The men were shot ...
This has ambitions to be an American Odyssey, telling the tale of a Confederate soldier, Inman, who travels to return to his love Ada at Cold Mountain. I admit there's just about no literary affectation I hate more than the fashion a la Cormac McCarthy to omit quotation marks. Frazier, when he marks...
I think this is a book that will resonate strongly with some and barely be worth the time of others. For me, it was perfectly okay. I never found myself particularly invested in the characters and I found the pacing to be much too slow to my liking, but I do understand that the pacing was setting ...
Had to read this book (and watch the movie) for an course on North Carolina History. Just glad that I finally finished it because it was long and dull and I just don't care.
Set in a small town in North Carolina, Luce gets her sister's children after she is murdered. I had heard a lot of good things about Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, so I was excited when I won this from a Goodreads giveaway. But it has taken me quite awhile to read this, which is unusual for me si...
Obtained: Through Goodreads First Reads As soon as I read the first two pages of Nightwoods, I automatically knew that it was a book that is deep, mysterious, suspenseful, and just sucks you right in into the story. Nightwoods gave me tons of conflicting emotions, mainly with the abandoned children....
This is my first foray into the Civil War and I am so glad I chose this book for a start. Initially the story is told from the perspective of two lovers torn apart by the war; Inman and Ada. All along it is unclear if these two will ever be reconciled - but we do know that they will never be the sam...
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