Purchased in Canada and Buffalo several weeks ago.Under the Snow, Kersten Ekman
The Lecturer's Tale, James Hynes
Fay, Larry Brown
Hell at the Breach, Tom Franklin
Raven, George Dawes Green
The Rabbit Factory, Larry Watson
Replay, Ken Grimwood
And add in Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross; Dogs of the South, Charles Portis and Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta from a trip to Borders on Friday.
Read Brown's FATHER AND SON several years ago in a Mississippi writer-thon. Think of him as Faulkner without the page-long sentences. Also enjoyed his book about being in the Oxford Fire Dept, ON FIRE. Let us know what you think of FAY.
ReplyDeleteSo where are the Canadian books?
ReplyDeleteRAVENS sounds interesting. I read his THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE a few years ago and really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteI can take partial credit for recommending Brown (I've read the ones Ron mentions), Green and Grimwood to Patti when we were in that big book warehouse in Ontario. I just got another copy of REPLAY today from the PaperBack Exchange to reread.
ReplyDeleteJeff M.
My, how literary you are. I'm ashamed to admit I'm not familiar with any of these, and I probably should be. So many books, so little time (to coin a phrase).
ReplyDeleteSome good ones there Patti.
ReplyDeleteI read a new release from a couple of months ago that I think you'll like, Wire to Wire by Scott Sparling. I think it's on sale this month fpr the Kindle.
Check it out.
Always love some book talk.
ReplyDeleteNot more literary. Just different.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about DOGS OF THE SOUTH. I haven't read it yet, though.
ReplyDeleteOne of those weird things, where I had been meaning to get my hands on it since TRUE GRIT and there is was, sitting on the Borders shelf. I guess they ordered a few of his back list when TRUE GRIT came out.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed THE LECTURER'S TALE by James Hynes. Hynes liked to throw in some H. P. Lovecraft elements in his early books.
ReplyDeleteLarry Watson's new book just came out. I invited him to my library this Nov. and he, thankfully, gave us the discounted rate.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a nice guy.
ReplyDeleteInteresting spoil you have there, and a Kerstin Ekman I haven´t even read.
ReplyDeleteNeglected to mention that I enjoyed Larry Watson's MONTANA 1948 and JUSTICE, and most of all WHITE CROSSES. His SUNDOWN, YELLOW MOON was a bit too postmodern for me.
ReplyDeleteWHITE CROSSES is my only Watson thus far but it was a great one.
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested in what you think of RAVEN. I hated it. In fact I never finished it. A not very funny satire on a very tired kind of topic - the self-professed evangelical demigod. It started off interesting but rapidly turned into the kind of book I really loathe. Not at all what I thought it would be and a far cry from his engaging utterly original debut THE CAVEMAN's VALENTINE. Reading RAVEN was like a slap in the face followed by mean spirited derisive laughter.
ReplyDeleteThat puts me off reading it. And since my tbr pile exceeds 500 books, I probably never will.
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