Welcome to Litsy!

Two short stories made into a song by Jayber Crow Prairie #JuneSpecials @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This 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 Hickok had a bold style of dispensing the law that had become outdated by his death.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.

#bookspinbingo

Wow, 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.

Brilliant 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.

A mule farm in Pennsylvania
#whereareyouMonday
@Cupcake12

"He rode into our valley in the summer of '89."

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Like 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.

Loved this! Such a tense book, from both the POV of Cy Bellman who goes west to find mythical animals and even more so for his young daughter left behind in the care of Cy‘s sister.

I don‘t think I loved it as much as Clear, and I wasn‘t *entirely* sure about the very end but I definitely want to read more by this author.

Thanks for sending it to me @BarbaraBB 😘

West, by Carys Davies is a wonderful book. I loved Clear .. it‘s my favourite of the two. But West was similar, a story of isolation, of dreams , of what might be and might have been.. of chance. I love the natural settings of her books. Nature in all its stark beauty.

Now on to Sally Rooney, (totally opposite territory to Davies ) Loving it too.

Also a few bails along the way sinse I posted last.

When some huge ancient bones has been discovered out west, Cy Bellman decides to go in search of these big animals. He leaves his 10 yr old daughter to his sister.

A book about a man‘s journey but also about the people staying behind, and how hard it is to be a woman in a man‘s world.