“Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees across the creek. Carcasses hung pale of flesh with fatty gleam from low limbs of saplings in the side yards. Three halt haggard houses formed a kneeling rank on the far creeks...
There's plenty that could be said in praise of this book. The innate code of honor that rules the characters echoes (albeit more starkly) heartland poet Bruce Spingsteen's "Highway Patrolman":Me and Franky laughin' and drinkin' nothin' feels better than blood on blood Takin' turns dancin' with Mari...
3 – 3.5 starsI think I may have come to this book with excessive expectations given the consistently high ratings and voluminous praise in GR friends’ reviews. That’s not to say that this was a bad book, or that I didn’t enjoy it, but for me this book didn’t hit the sweet spot that it seemed to rea...
4.5 stars“The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.” Being familiar with the film adaptation of Winter’s Bone, I had a hunch that I was going to like Daniel Woodrell’s novel, particularly if it turned out that the characters I’d found...
Reading this book made me realize how FRIGGIN' SHELTERED my life has been. To me, Winter's Bone reads just like a nightmarish dystopia. To millions of people, apparently, it's life. Ree Dolly is incredibly tough and hardened by life - much more than you'd expect from a sixteen-year-old girl. "She co...
Very good book, Woodrell is clearly an excellent writer and I will be checking out more of his work in the near future. *He promises just before being crushed by his to be read pile.* Not quite noir but satisfyingly dark. Ree Dolly is an excellent, strong, protagonist; fighting to protect her famil...
Ree Dolly's father has jumped bail, leaving their home forfeit unless Ree can find him before his court date. Will she be able to find her father before she ends up homeless with her two brothers and insane mother?First off, I have a confession to make. I live in rural Missouri and, therefore, som...
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