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Author Kent Haruf passed away on December 2. He was the author of "Plainsong", one of my all-time favorite books. The made-for-TV movie didn't come close to doing the book justice. I highly recommend it if you haven't read it. I think it's time for me to read it again...
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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Oh, boy. This forum is so bad (and so good) for me. I'd never heard of Kent Haruf or Plainsong, but you made me look it up. And then what happened? I looked up all of his other novels too. And THEN what happened? Yeah, you guessed it. I got them all. They all sound fabulous. And that's five more books on my "to read" list.
I'm only 10% into Plainsong and I already love it.
I've met just a few of the characters and I feel like I know these people.
So far the writing reminds me of a cross between Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show. The author reveals small town doings with characters of great scope and a few who are about as deep as a birdbath.
I'm going to truly enjoy this book of Haruf's. It's gentle in spirit. I can already tell. You know how a book can be gentle and soothing and at the same time have a few inconvenient crises happening that are heartbreaking? I suspect that is what will be happening in this book.
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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I just wrote this in the What book are you reading? thread, but it bears repeating here. Specifically here.
Okay, so, I haven't even read a dozen pages yet of Plainsong and I'M IN LOVE! If all of his books are anything like the first 10 pages of this one, sigh..., I'm a happy girl.
ETA:
Heads up! This is going to be published, posthumously of course, in June 2015:
yes I loved his books too wow we are losing all of our great writers here lately . I was shocked when I heard of tom Clancy and since then it seems that a few months go by and then all of a sudden I hear of a great writer dying at least they leave us with fond memorys .
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