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I just finished Plainsong. Sigh... It was lovely. I'm going to start the sequel, Eventide, next. And then I'll take a little break from this author (Kent Haruf) before I dive into his others.
I'm starting Eventide, too, Dawn.
I was born in a smallish east Texas town. Holt, Colorado reminds me of that town. Yeah, I feel like I know those people and also some of the animals.
I'm ready for a further look into the citizens of Holt. What a delight.
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I'm starting Eventide, too, Dawn.
I was born in a smallish east Texas town. Holt, Colorado reminds me of that town. Yeah, I feel like I know those people and also some of the animals.
I'm ready for a further look into the citizens of Holt. What a delight.
How many books did you read between Plainsong and Eventide? You're very lucky to be retired and have all that reading time.
How many books did you read between Plainsong and Eventide? You're very lucky to be retired and have all that reading time.
Just one. I have a list of "stuff" that I have to take care of before the new year and I finally started working it. Yeah, I procrastinate from time to time.
I finished Eventide. I'm nearly finished with the third in the series: Benediction.
I just realized who Kent Haruf reminds me of. Thorton Wilder. These three lovely books are so much like Wilder's play, Our Town.
I don't know if many of you have watched the miniseries The Way West. Spencer Tracy is the narrator. It begins in the days of the US frontier and the expansion west. It ends much later in modern times. We follow the characters and their offspring through this time. What really gets to me is in the final scenes where cars are being shown speeding along on high, multilevel highways. It's so sad to me. Everything is over. I'm always left with the question "What am I going to do now that this is over and the credits are running?"
I feel the same way about this three book series by Kent Haruf. What on earth is going to compete with these books? "Our Town" does the same thing to me.
It's the grace of the books and the writer. I suppose "grace" is appropriate following Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction. What am I going to read now that could even begin to come close to this trilogy?
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I finished Eventide. I'm nearly finished with the third in the series: Benediction.
Wait, what? I have Benediction, I know it's set in Holt too, but I didn't realize that it was a sequel to the sequel. Are any of the same characters from Plainsong and Eventide in this one too?
I'm not even halfway through Eventide yet. I'll probably need to take a break (and read something else, by someone else) before I start yet a THIRD (in a row!) by Haruf.
Wait, what? I have Benediction, I know it's set in Holt too, but I didn't realize that it was a sequel to the sequel. Are any of the same characters from Plainsong and Eventide in this one too?
I'm not even halfway through Eventide yet. I'll probably need to take a break (and read something else, by someone else) before I start yet a THIRD (in a row!) by Haruf.
It's a new set of folks in Holt. However, we learn in snippets of conversation what happened with some of the main characters in the first two books. That did disappoint me because I was prepared to follow them forever.
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It's a new set of folks in Holt. However, we learn in snippets of conversation what happened with the main characters in the first two books. That did disappoint me because I was prepared to follow them forever.
Awwwww!
Well... I might have to read a third in a row in that case.
I have just finished Dan Brown's Inferno. That's a very thrilling book very unlike ' The Lost Symbol" that was so boring that I didn't complete the book. Inferno is way better book replete with symbolism , art and introduction to history and different cultures.
Oh my,after really loving the cowboy romance "Do You Take This Rebel" by Sherryl Woods,I tried the second book of The Calamity Janes series, but could not finish it,so then tried the first book in the Sweet Magnolia series and hated that one with a passion,because it's a sympathetic book all about the cheating dog husband and his pregnant mistress...how's that for GAG material!
I detest romances that are full of drama,ANGST/threat or one book-length misunderstanding,and this book was all about[up to the 44% I got anyway] how hard the oldest son's hard-feelings were on the low-life father and his w----!
Starting with book 4 the series does sound better so I have reserved the PB version as the Kindle version was not available at my library. Will let you know if the series is redeemed,lol!
I was totally delighted with another cowboy romance by another new to me author~The Wyoming Cowboy (Daddy Dude Ranch #1)by Rebecca Winters
I don't know if many of you have watched the miniseries The Way West. Spencer Tracy is the narrator. It begins in the days of the US frontier and the expansion west. It ends much later in modern times. We follow the characters and their offspring through this time. What really gets to me is in the final scenes where cars are being shown speeding along on high, multilevel highways.
I thought that was the movie How the West was Won? Which I will watch over and over and over
("A short epilogue shows modern Los Angeles and San Francisco in the early 1960s, including the famous four-level downtown freeway interchange and Golden Gate Bridge, indicating the growth of the West in 80 years."
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