Lonesome Dove: A Novel | 
#7days7spines #7days7covers day 6
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1. I‘ve started the tagged book but haven‘t gotten very far.
2. Hobbit & LOTR - gonna do it again starting next month.
3. About 575 on Goodreads and IDK how many on my personal shelves.
4. Becoming ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. If you haven‘t played yet, consider yourself tagged!
#wondrouswednesday
Does 3 am Tuesday count for #manicmonday? I say yes so here goes:
1 and 2. Lonesome Dove
3. Most songs by John Denver
2. Avengers End Game. We don‘t go to the theater very often but my students were about to explode from holding spoilers in!
3. Beautiful big strawberries and green grapes!
4. 13
5. @Emilyrjones22 @RachelO @Sharpeipup @APLitlife
#friyayintro
1. Tagged is most suggested from this year. But I'd say Stephen King's Misery is probably the most often recommended for general audiences.
2. Midsommer. Loved it.
3. Watermelon and elote.
4. SOOOO many! 1st cousins alone, & only counting the blood variety & not by marriage, I have 25. Maybe more I'm forgetting. 🤔 I have a LOT of family. Don't even get me trying to calculate 2nd & 3rd.
5. 👋💕
#friyayintro @howjessreads
pickI loved this book. I would call it the quintessential American western. It really is an epic. It follows two ex-Texas rangers from the a small town on the Rio Grande (Lonesome Dove) driving cattle to settle Montana, Gus and Call. I found the few female characters the most compelling. However, I really felt is was a love story between two life long friends and what they would do for each other. Great read!
pickYou'd never know from my staff lounge white board that I work in a library.
#wherehaveallthecowboysgone #lilithjuly @Cinfhen @KarenUK
(I forgot to post this yesterday!)
Science camp at the library=1 hour of quiet reading for me!! 🧫 🧬 🧪 📚
While my little man is at science camp, my daughter and I are spending a little time reading at the library. She is thrilled to have her pic taken! #summerreading
After an active day (morning run, some time in the lab, afternoon yoga, evening karate), Sonny and I are chilling with a western! #bfc #bfcr2 #bookfitnesschallenge #dogsoflisty #sonnythemutt @wanderinglynn @Mitch
1. The Wife, Turning Angel, The Satapur Moonstone
2. I had the best strawberry lemonade last week !
3. "The woman," Dillard whispered. "The woman. They say he missed that whore." Zfrom Lonesome Dove.
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
My #top6reads of 2019 so far are surprising to me. Not only is there only one horror novel on the list, but there's a massive western as well as two non-fics. I rarely ever read non-fic, and when I do I never count them as favorites. I'm a little half way done with my goal for 2019, and I'm interested to see if my trajectory of reading nontypical genres will stick.
Last Day of Vacation! Getting in some beach time and some book time! #summerreading #summervacay
My happy place with a book! Simply the best!! #summerreading #summervacay
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry), which I STILL have to read! 🤦🏻♀️
Any western with John Wayne (Rio Lobo, True Grit, Rooster Cogburn, Rio Bravo, Chisum, Big Jake, The Shootist, etc.) I‘m a fan.
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (Willie Nelson)
#manicmonday
@JoScho
📚 - Lonesome Dove
🎬 - The Man from Snowy River
🎧 - Rhinestone Cowboy, Glen Campbell
#manicmonday @joscho
This one could not be more perfect for my recent obsession. 😆
I have been away for a bit, but Litsy was close to my heart. This is a bookshelf at the resort that I was visiting. On the shelf was Lonesome Dove, a Litsy favorite, so I had to take a photo to share!
After a long drive and a ride on a ferry boat, we have made to Ocean City, Maryland! A little reading and a little pool! #summervacay #summerreading
#aflowerinthedesert makes me think of LD. One of my favorite characters of all time is Gus. And I picture him as a tattoo-less Oliver Peck. 🤣 #wanderingjune
Did some work at the Louisville friends of the library book sale today! Whole stack only $17.50😎
May has been a weird month. Mostly bad, but it wasn't all as such. The reading was good for one. Tagged book was the best. Definitely a new favorite, a top 3 for sure.
pickSat at the top of Kinnoull Hill in Perth, the same place that my Grandad used to sit to watch the horses. He was in love with that spot ever since discovering Larry McMutry's novels, so it feels right that i re-read part of Lonsesome Dove there. He's gone now, so there is a big mix of emotions, as well as huge admiration for McMurty's style. Gritty, realistic and beautifully written, this feels every inch the classic that it is. Top pick!
It‘s been many years since I‘ve read and watched Lonesome Dove. Now‘s the time! If you haven‘t watched the movie, Duvall is something else. 💚
My mental health & general quality of life has been poor lately. Not that it matters here in the land o' social media, but I've been overtaxed & overwhelmed by what/whoever is dealing out the hands in this life. I can't find any care or hope for it all tbh. As much as I don't want to come out of hiding, I know I need to. I'm getting worse. So to bring it back to books, I've managed to read a few titles this month & am currently working on tagged.
so-soThis is a sprawling Western that is absolutely brilliant in parts and terribly tedious in others. At more than 900 pages, this is a reading marathon. And when you finish, it‘s not really closed. The characters are interesting and fully developed, and the storyline is compelling. It‘s just that like Romeo and Juliet, much of it seems to turn on coincidence. Still, fans of the genre who haven‘t read it should. For others, maybe try something else.
Why is it taking me forever to get through this book? Anyone else have a similar experience?
I‘ve been missing Litsy and our #LitsyFamily 😩! I‘ve been doing so much packing, I‘ve had almost zero time for anything else 😕😔.
Today, though, is an #NYC day 👍🏻👍🏻! TWO bookclubs.
First one on the docket was the #2030SomethingLongReadsBookClub! We had 5 people attend, which is a big number considering big books can make most folks nervous 😎.
Unanimous opinion: LD is the quintessential Western epic! Everyone loved it!
#whatwouldyoudo @DannyHattan
1. Lonesome Dove
2. The Poisonwood Bible
3. Both
The imagery of this sentence had me laughing alone at my desk at work. #imagery #lunchbreak #lonesomedove
No one breaks the law with as much swag as Call & Gus 🏜
#ifoughtthelaw
#anglophileapril
I feel like I've been saving this story for quite some time in the way you wouldn't burn your favorite candle. This was one of my father's favorites which I've seen on his bookcase all my life. Today is the day I burn!
#booksale #easterreading #tbr #epic
pickAdventure, pacing, landscape and character and a masterful setup. Took me 20 years in Texas to get to this classic.
#BookNLunch! (What an apropos title for my new situation *sighs* 😕😔. It‘s a great audiobook, by the way.) Accompaniment this gray and humid noontime: tomato bisque, and a salad of mesculin mix, grape tomatoes, mushrooms, carrots, black olives, chicken breast, mozzarella balls, bacon bits, salami, parmesan cheese, and honey dijon dressing. MMMmmm 😋!
Spent part of our Spring Break making a small dent in this brick. (The book caused a security check on one flight!)
uva uvam vivendo varia fit - whatever that means.
Dish Bogget is hopelessly devoted to Lorena Woods, who is in love with Gus, who in turn has nurtured a burning flame for Clara . . . and Clara is no longer interested.
Lots of #jealousguy spottings in this one. #marchintothe70s
I finished Lonesome Dove tonight after a month of reading and I feel like I climbed Mount Everest
Do your best, if you happen to love a fool. You‘ll have my sympathy. Some folks will preach that it‘s a woman‘s duty never to quit, once you make a bond with a man. I say that‘s folly. A bond has to work two ways. If a man don‘t hold up his end, there comes a time to quit.
Have a trip coming. A few new books because, you know, have to be prepared.
I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.
If you want one thing too much it‘s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things
pick1st 💯 pages were so-so. 2nd 💯 pages grabbed my attention. Then I had 658 pages of rapt engagement with the characters, the story, and the setting...all felt so real! So glad I read this American classic. BTW, the stars on the cover are metallic and “twinkle” depending on how the light hits...👍🏻cover design. It took me almost a month to read because I refuse to carry a huge book around. 4/5🕊s This counts towards #StackAttack2019
I‘d risk a few nags for the opportunity of shooting at an educated man for a change.
I can‘t decide what to read next. 😫
pickBecame an active reader again, read 82 books, and finished Read Harder challenge in 2018. Really enjoyed stretching to more diverse voices and genres. Here‘s the top 10 books I read this year (in no particular order): Lumberjanes Vol. 1, Lonesome Dove, Milk & Honey, Convenience Store Woman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Kiss Quotient, We Are Okay, Circe, An American Marriage, and The Lightkeepers.
Pictured are my 5-star reads for 2018, the tagged book being the very best. News of the World very close second. Below are all 4 to 5 star reads in 2018:
A Curious Beginning
Caleb‘s Crossing
The Dante Club
The Good Knight
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Kindred
Lonesome Dove (5*)
Little Fires Everywhere
News of the World (5*)
Ready Player One (5*)
The Scarred Woman (5*)
Speed The Dawn
War Cry (5*)
