In Plainsong we are shown a picture of life in a Colorado ranching community. The novel focuses on the lives of teacher and his two young boys dealing with the loneliness after their mother leaves, two old cattle ranchers, and a teenage girl who is kicked out of her house when she discovers she is p...
Hated this sooo much and didn't get far in. The book rotates between Guthrie, a teacher; his two young sons Ike and Bobby; a pregnant teen Victoria and two elderly bachelor brothers, the McPherons, in small town Holt, Colorado. The author writes the dialogue without quotation marks. Now, believe i...
A graceful, quiet yet powerful book. It is a study of small town life, told through several characters in alternating chapters. There is nothing new here -- just everyday lives with the usual problems. Some people have more good than bad in them, some have more bad than good, and a lot of people ...
I'm going to have to create a new bookshelf for this: comfort books. Wow, talk about the power of human decency, and fellow feeling. It's set in a plain old boring small town, and there's no hugely compelling plot, yet I read it like my life depended on it. Really, though, sometimes your life might ...
A beautiful, lyrical read that, with it's interweaving harmonies of the lives of small-town people, is much like a song. Each chapter is a stanza that adds to the beauty of the whole. Very compelling and complex, yet at the same time simple and lovely. It's a true story of the bond between all of...
I liked this book, but didn't LOVE it. It was another one without punctuation for when people were talking, but it did make more sense than others I've read. Sometimes I'd get confused about who the chapter was talking about if I'd forgotten to read the heading. In some places it was well written a...
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