Reading Wrap Up June 15, 2024: June On the Range, BookTube Prize, DNF
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- Finished:
Moon Dance by S.P. Somtow (digital) DNF
Wild Cat Roundup: Gunsmith #29 by J.R. Roberts (print)
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour (print)
- "West Is Where the Heart Is"
- "The Turkeyfeather Riders"
All That I Dread: A K-9 Search and Rescue Story by Linda J. White (digital) DNF
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig (audio) BookTube Prize
In Progress:
Ulysses by James Joyce
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I'll look forward to your thoughts on the King biography later on Greg
King was one of the books I read for the first round of the BookTube prize. I agree, I am sure it will go far. Great wrap up 😊
When you talked about the Gunsmith book, I had a vivid memory of my elderly neighbour whose daughter would bring him westerns… but never the sexy ones he wanted. (Easy to pick out by the scantily clad women on the covers.) For those, he relied on me to pass library copies to him over the fence. There was a clandestine air to it all, a secret to be kept from his daughter.
That’s a great story.
Too much wolf pee is grounds alone for a DNF! 😄 The Gunsmith sounds amusing. I've seen that enormous King biography at the library; I'll be interested to hear the eventual review
The Gunsmith is so cheesy but still highly entertaining. You probably will not be disappointed putting your name on the waiting list at the library for the King biography.
Great video! I read Moondance when I was very young and also remember being confused. Love your naughty western recommendations, still have to read one. 🤣I will be reading The Haunted Mesa soon by Louis L'Amour. I also have a real problem with books that push a religious agenda. The whole preacher/ revival thing just pisses me off.
I have The Haunted Mesa on my Kindle. It was going to be a buddy group but it got shuffled off and postponed indefinitely. I think it is more about Native American Indian than the old west.
I absolutely love anything in the setting of an asylum ❤
It freaks me out a bit but it’s fascinating to me .
Too bad it was a DNF but it’s okay . I have DNF when I was 90 percent in 😢
That Gunsmith book does sound along similar lines to the Longarm book I read for June on the Range.
The Gunsmith, Longarm, and Lone Star are all western series in the same vain: gunfights and explicit sex scenes. Lone Star is a little different in that the main characters are an Asian man martial artists and a female gunfighter.
@@anotherbibliophilereads a little bit of something for everyone.
Great reading so far! I think DNF’ing is healthy 😅 life is too short.
Definitely DNF.
I actually finished Moon Dance (years ago), and totally agree: starts off nice, but kind of turns into spaghetti as far as plot. Bro, your in-person reading group, they sure do read a lot of canine fiction. Last time it was a female vet and a dog, I think. I'm sure someone's written some cozy cat mysteries. Pip is going to have that toy de-plumed in no time. Cheers.
I think the two dog books are a coincidence, though the group organized has a big dog and a cat. Pip can be nicknamed Destroyer of Cat Toys. I need to buy the feather replacements by the dozen.
Great wrap up. I’m 100% in agreement on the proselytizing from authors through their characters. It is often for a religious reason but can be about any subject that they are passionate about. It’s distracting and feels so deliberate that it makes me less inclined to read from that author again.
I’m currently reading for June on the Range and there is are times when the author proselytizes about the importance of firearms. Par of the course in the genre, I suppose.
@@anotherbibliophilereadsI felt a little of that in _True Grit,_ Greg.
I tried an openly Christian Fiction novel once for a book club. It was just dreadful. In many ways. I do not want Christian fiction for myself, but I can’t understand why they can’t be subtle and plausible and well written. Never again!
Yeah, I don’t think I’ll try Christian fiction again. It was not my first but let it be the last.
@@anotherbibliophilereads it is finished