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Last week I finished Mabel Dodge Luhan's "Winter in Taos" which was a real surprising number. It's a sweetly rambling memoir of her time in Taos and everything you wanted from an homage to New Mexico was there- crackly, pinon filled fires, crunchy animal prints in snow, the smell of chilis and plum trees. Some of the casual animal deaths were a bit unsettling, but offset with descriptions of flowers that you could almost smell. She artfully dodged talking about her fella's poor wife, living in a pueblo where he abandoned her to come and live with the high society arty lady, but maybe she writes about that in another book. I'll have to find out!
I particularly loved the story she told of how a bunch of converted Native Americans were having a hell of a time trying to grow crops. Their priest suggested they go to the church and bring the statue of Jesus on the cross, and get him to bless the field, which they duly did. Shortly afterwards, the rain they had prayed for came in torrents, washing out all the seeds and creating muddy hell. They went back to the church, got a statue of Mary, brought it to the field and pointed at the ground saying "Look what your son did!"
I particularly loved the story she told of how a bunch of converted Native Americans were having a hell of a time trying to grow crops. Their priest suggested they go to the church and bring the statue of Jesus on the cross, and get him to bless the field, which they duly did. Shortly afterwards, the rain they had prayed for came in torrents, washing out all the seeds and creating muddy hell. They went back to the church, got a statue of Mary, brought it to the field and pointed at the ground saying "Look what your son did!"
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Just finished this - a more damning indictment of a leader and a Government of a nation is almost impossible to imagine. Complete incompetence and total abrogation of duty from start to finish. We all know the story but, even so, reading it in chronological form is still harrowing.
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I enjoy most of what John Sandford writes and started reading his work when someone,gave me a copy of "The Fool's Run" .
Ocean Prey is a light read with less violence than in many of Sandford's novels. It's always fun to have Virgil Flowers interact with Davenport. I don't wish to give anything away but I did cry at one point. All in all, this a good lockdown/summer/beach type read.
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I just started this book.
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` wrote:Tom Waits For No One wrote:
Halfway through this. Really enjoying it.
As with Alan Partridge Nomad, you can hear the author's delivery
in your head on every page. And as with the Coogan book, the audio
version must be a real treat.
I’m in the middle of this! Splendid book.
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I"m starting this on Monday ..
Eddie Jaru is amazing! It's difficult to believe that he's 101 years old.
Eddie Jaru is amazing! It's difficult to believe that he's 101 years old.
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Minnie the Minx wrote:Last week I finished Mabel Dodge Luhan's "Winter in Taos" which was a real surprising number. It's a sweetly rambling memoir of her time in Taos and everything you wanted from an homage to New Mexico was there- crackly, pinon filled fires, crunchy animal prints in snow, the smell of chilis and plum trees. Some of the casual animal deaths were a bit unsettling, but offset with descriptions of flowers that you could almost smell. She artfully dodged talking about her fella's poor wife, living in a pueblo where he abandoned her to come and live with the high society arty lady, but maybe she writes about that in another book. I'll have to find out!
I particularly loved the story she told of how a bunch of converted Native Americans were having a hell of a time trying to grow crops. Their priest suggested they go to the church and bring the statue of Jesus on the cross, and get him to bless the field, which they duly did. Shortly afterwards, the rain they had prayed for came in torrents, washing out all the seeds and creating muddy hell. They went back to the church, got a statue of Mary, brought it to the field and pointed at the ground saying "Look what your son did!"
I'd never heard of her so I looked her up in Wikipedia where I found this gem about the 'fella':
"Lujan set up a teepee in front of her house, drumming each night in an attempt to lure her to him."
The astonishing thing is that it seems to have worked.
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She was scared that if the drumming stopped, she'd have to listen to the bass solo.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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A heart-warming, light-hearted slice of romance. And the odd genocide.
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A heart-warming, light-hearted slice of romance. And the odd genocide.
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Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. I like the idea of the setting (remote island in northern Quebec) as a segue from a Jim Harrison novel.
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Tom Waits For No One wrote:Just finished
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Shuggie is waiting til I have the current book finished. How is it so far?
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Just finished:
Very enjoyable indeed- read it in about three sittings.
Currently reading (downstairs) :
I grabbed this as I had seen it was recommended. I didn't know anything about the author, and looked him up just before I sat down to read it and immediately regretted it, judging by his bio. So far, however, it's a good read.
Currently reading (upstairs)-
Fucking hell, Cleese makes me laugh. This book is splendid. I don't know why I left it so long to go through all the Python's books- I've now done Palin and Chapman, Idle next - I don't actually know if Terry Jones wrote a book or not. Or Gilliam?
Very enjoyable indeed- read it in about three sittings.
Currently reading (downstairs) :
I grabbed this as I had seen it was recommended. I didn't know anything about the author, and looked him up just before I sat down to read it and immediately regretted it, judging by his bio. So far, however, it's a good read.
Currently reading (upstairs)-
Fucking hell, Cleese makes me laugh. This book is splendid. I don't know why I left it so long to go through all the Python's books- I've now done Palin and Chapman, Idle next - I don't actually know if Terry Jones wrote a book or not. Or Gilliam?
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.
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Robert wrote:Tom Waits For No One wrote:
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Shuggie is waiting til I have the current book finished. How is it so far?
Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Grimmer than Grimsby but well worth reading.
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If love could've saved you, you would've lived forever.