I read Crossing to Safety last summer and liked it quite a bit (actually started a fairly heated discussion in book club because I liked Charity and no one else did) and so when I saw this on my library's ebook browse shelf I picked it up.Overall there are some great turns of phrase (quotes below), ...
I really do not know how I want to rate The Ox-Bow Incident. I didn't hate this book, but I didn't like it either, yet it's better than ok. As others have mentioned, the writing, the setting, and the feel of this story are all very well done. It feels authentic, and I liked this study of the mob ...
See full review here!I received this through Audiobook Jukebox Solid Gold Reviewer Program. Here is my honest review:Wow, what a sad book. Remembering Laughter is a good title for this, because without remembering the fun times in this novel, it's hard to get through. I don't mean that this is a bad...
Beautiful writing. Simple and clean, yet evocative. (My reviews are starting to sound like descriptions of wine.)I read this book slowly, in small bites, so as to savor it. Given how quickly I read, one might think it would be difficult for me to read slowly. Yet I treasured each bit so much tha...
Just goes to show, even a literary hero can lay an egg once in awhile. I gave this book much more time than it deserved because of my great fondness for Stegner, but I had to give up. If you'd given me this book minus the author's name, I never would have guessed Wally had written it. NOTHING like h...
it doesn't surprise that this book won the pulitzer prize. it's an ambitious novel, cleverly constructed, effectively blending life and fiction, containing some beautiful sentences. this is the story of lyman ward, a historian who has gone into retirement, afflicted by a bone disease that has result...
Mp3 audio read to accompany Walkies! Workies! Read by Mark Bramhallblurbifications - Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--the magnificent story of four generations in the life of an American family. Crippled Lyman Ward researches and looks back on the pioneering life of his grandparents,in partic...
Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.Welcome to Wally World. No, not the one with Chevy Chase and a stiff relation on the car roof, the one that it is a place of real literary wonder. Wal...
This novelette is a brief and powerful illustration of the destructive power of marital infidelity and unforgiveness. The hurt and guilt run so deep that they dam the flow of communication, and laughter becomes only a memory. It's chastely told, as was the custom back when people were content to us...
This is like a coda written forty years after the symphony. If you haven't read The Big Rock Candy Mountain, I suggest you do so. Then, while it is still fresh in your mind, read Recapitulation. It fills in details left out of the first book and lets you get to know "Brucie" a lot better as he str...
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