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japple

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16. I started reading Lance Weller's book, Wilderness several months ago and couldn't

Reply to scarletwoman (Original post)

Wed May 27, 2015, 08:53 AM

May 2015

get into it. After reading Lin Enger's The High Divide I was in the mood for another good yarn, so I started Wilderness again and OMG, I am blown away by the writing. It is beautiful. It is sad, brutal, and hard to read at times, but this writer has a way of sucking you right into the story. When I look up from the book, I am surprised to find myself safe and warm in my own bedroom instead of immersed in the mud with the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, or (many years later) on the coast of the Pacific Northwest.

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What are you reading the week of Sunday, May 24, 2015? [View all] scarletwoman May 2015 OP

"Letter to a Corpse," Alan Etheridge, plus "Wire in the Blood," Val McDermid shenmue May 2015 #1

Ah, Val McDermid. scarletwoman May 2015 #2

That's okay shenmue May 2015 #3

Yes, we all like what we like. :D scarletwoman May 2015 #7

Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, scarletwoman. Enthusiast May 2015 #4

Lin Enger has been on my radar for some time, since he's a Minnesotan. scarletwoman May 2015 #9

I have an interest in Native American culture from back in the day. The High Divide seems Enthusiast May 2015 #11

No, I did not go to the U. I went to Macalester College, a private Liberal Arts college. scarletwoman May 2015 #12

Amazing adventures sound fun. Enthusiast May 2015 #13

LOL! I was rather a wild child back in the 60s... nt scarletwoman May 2015 #14

I like it! Enthusiast May 2015 #15

Mrs. Enthusiast is going to order a copy of Sweetland from the library. Enthusiast May 2015 #5

Oh, cool! scarletwoman May 2015 #8

Swordspoint, a fanatasy by Ellen Kushner hermetic May 2015 #6

I definitely understand the attraction of that sort of fantasy novel, having indulged heavily scarletwoman May 2015 #10

I started reading Lance Weller's book, Wilderness several months ago and couldn't japple May 2015 #16

Thank you for the recommendation! scarletwoman May 2015 #17

Warning: there is a lot of hawking and spitting in this book!!! japple May 2015 #18

As long as I don't have to be around it IRL... scarletwoman May 2015 #19