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Last Bus to Wisdom
Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel | Ivan Doig
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Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus Review The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doigs beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-olds imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for female trouble in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Katebossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannicalis nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal cant seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it turns out, Donal isnt traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers. From the Hardcover edition.
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I really enjoyed this book. Being set in 1950's it embraces the simpler times but often the simpler times became very complicated. Donal, at 11, has to fend for himself for the summer as he criss crosses the west on a Greyhound bus. I thought it felt similar to Lincoln Highway.

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I‘ve always wanted to read this #Montana author. This adventure is told from the POV of 11-year old, Donal, traveling on the Dog Bus (greyhound) in the summer of 1950 America. It has Tom Sawyer and A Painted House feels. Some vernacular is cringeworthy enough that Donal‘s adult character steps in to apologize for his younger self. I have to forgive this because I‘m seldom a fan of a period piece written with current day mores.

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hollyann321

Life can tickle you in the ribs surprisingly when it's not digging it's thumb in.

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FINALLY going to finish this one tonight. I can‘t take anymore of #Hester‘s disapproving looks if I don‘t.

#DogsOfLitsy

suvata LOL 😂 5y
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I‘m tired of reading in hospitals. This has gotta end soon!

Bklover Oh no! You‘re in the hospital?! Didn‘t you just have surgery? I hope you‘re feeling better soon Maybe too many fried pickles!😉. (Hope you have plenty to read!) 5y
TrishB Hope you‘re on the mend soon. 5y
Gaylagal2 @Wannabe_Quijote Get well soon! I've been there and no fun😉 5y
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TheSpineView Hospitals are not at the top of my list for vacations! Get better soon! 5y
CouronneDhiver Oh dear... I hope this is a planned issue and not an emergency 😕 5y
Wannabe_Quijote @Bklover @TrishB @Gaylagal2 @TheSpineView @CouronneDhiver I‘m back home on some pain meds and mandated bedrest. I hope I don‘t see the inside of an ER for a long time! 5y
Bklover Me too! Take it easy! 5y
Gaylagal2 @Wannabe_Quijote I'm so glad for you that you're home! That's when you can get well and be in your own bed and chill🤙Take good care❤️ 5y
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JoScho Feeling any better this morning? 5y
Wannabe_Quijote @JoScho Everyday is a bit easier. I‘m having a hard time being patient, though! 5y
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Wannabe_Quijote
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The #Percocet is making it hard to concentrate and get as much #reading in as I had hoped ☹️

LauraJ Perfect time to read some Hunter S. Thompson! Or maybe a Motley Crüe bio ?? 5y
Wannabe_Quijote Great suggestion, @LauraJ 5y
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sprainedbrain Awwww 😍 5y
CouronneDhiver 👍🏽🖤 5y
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JSW
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Today‘s @bookshopsc Birthday Sale book haul! Super excited!

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Ginath13
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Only halfway through but I am loving this book. I can‘t believe I‘ve never heard of Ivan Doig until now!

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KathyM

just finished discussion with book friends on this one - we loved it! check it out.... but it's better if you' re achild of the fifties/ sixties 😊