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Read. This. Book. You won‘t be sorry. I LOVED it. Mattie Ross is the bomb!! Afterword by Donna Tartt hit my heart big time!! Great dialogue, 1870s Arkansas, Choctaw Nation. Epic retrospective novel. Will be reading more Portis.

Some of the language rubbed me the wrong way but overall there was something about this book.

I‘ve had this on my list for so long, and after loving Clear, I was even more excited for West. It‘s a slim little book but somehow manages to be epic. A father whose wife has recently passed journeys west in search of dinosaur bones, set in early 1800s America. His daughter stays back east with her aunt. There‘s sadness and there‘s longing, grief, familial love, found family, a quest, danger, but also levity. I loved this little book!

I should have liked this because it was compared to Cormac McCarthy. Tom Rourke is nothing like Billy Parham or John Cole. It doesn't have that lovely poetic description of the wilderness, the earnest respect for animals, the yearning for the girls they love.

The book is described as being funny. Where?

It may have been the narrator. He sounded like a killer from a horror film, but I am just not in a hurry to get the print version to see.

I finished the KC Davis book in February but it took till July to read Kilrone.

So, my February #BookSpinBingo is done! 😂

I'll either get caught up by December or just start fresh in 2026!

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I usually love the Sackett family novels by L'Amour. This one, though, didn't do it for me. I rated this a 2.5 across multiple platforms but rounded up for the graphic.

I've got one more by L'Amour in my pressing pile but now I don't know. I'll give it a shot. If it's a mediocre as this one, I may just circle back to it at a later date.

Shout out to Moffat Library, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX for the copy of the book from ILL!

Finally made my way to this classic because a friend wanted to watch the John Wayne adaptation (it couldn't hold a candle to this novel, if you were wondering). The dialogue is every bit as delightful as you've always heard and Donna Tartt's narration is phenomenal. A book I could revel in but it was so engrossing I ended up finishing it in a day. Here's to the rereads to come!

The Sisters Brothers is marketed as a dark comedy Western. Dark comedies are one of my fav sub genres. However, I could not for the life of me find the humor. The writing style was very simple and straightforward musings from Eli Sisters (who I found naive and annoying). The plot felt repetitive following their journey and I did not like the callous violence. A scene with a child was when I decided it just wasn‘t my cup of tea.