pick“My mother always says that the sweetest sound in the world is a baby‘s borning cry.”
May Amelia‘s mom is a midwife. Her family lives in a small community in Washington state around the turn of the 19th century, where farming and logging are primary subsistence. Poignant
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pickI read this book in 1 day. 💚
A widower leaves his daughter to go off across America in search of large wild beasts after reading an article about ancient bones in the newspaper. 🤦🏼♀️ His journey is dangerous but his daughter is also in danger left behind. Throughout history men have the privilege of having choices that women don‘t. ‘You had so many ways of deciding which way to live your life. It made his head spin to think of them. ⬇️
pickI‘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!
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pickThis was a quick, interesting read. Clavin did his best to separate the man from the many myths about him. I found it most interesting to learn how quickly the west and country as a whole had changed over Hickok‘s 39 years. Hickok had a bold style of dispensing the law that had become outdated by his death. I‘d love if there had been more insight into the man himself, but I get the vibe he wasn‘t much for sharing his feelings.
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pickWow, for 149 pages, this book packs a punch. A man leaves his 10 year old daughter to go on a questionable quest. The journey that ensues is interesting but there are some terrifying moments for his daughter. I loved the character Old Woman From A Distance.
pickBrilliant book, thrilled to have found this in a second hand shop. It's a great tale and full of description of the interior of the USA in the 1800s. Her writing is sublime.
"He rode into our valley in the summer of '89."
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pickLike others here, I wanted to read more from Davies after Clear. I liked this one, a novel of obsession, the expansiveness of men‘s lives and the rapid narrowing of girls‘s as they become women. The ending is a tad preposterous but I liked it.
