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Ian’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Before Familiar Woods
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"This carefully crafted novel reminded us of Dennis Lehane’s gritty Boston mysteries, but with a small-town intimacy that delivers even more of an emotional punch."
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“She felt that her memories had turned to muscle and been stretched over her bones so that she couldn’t move without them. It had gotten so there was nothing in her future. Only a series of reactions born from her past.”
― Before Familiar Woods
― Before Familiar Woods
“The town of North Falls consisted of twenty-eight square miles positioned on a high plateau in the southern region of the Green Mountain range. It had the highest altitude of any village in the state, which meant the snow came early and it came often. It also meant that the first thing anybody noticed about the town was the church steeple. The rotting whitewashed wood and the slatted oval window and the copper spire all connected to the simple wood framing. It was the highest point in the state, and people liked to say that it was closer to God than anywhere else in Vermont. Not that it did the town much good.”
― Before Familiar Woods
― Before Familiar Woods
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“The Meadow... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in.”
― The Meadow
― The Meadow
“In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.”
― The Nick Adams Stories
― The Nick Adams Stories
“Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.”
― Plainsong
― Plainsong
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Patrick wrote: "Hey I'm finally watching "Shotgun Stories"- it's on IFC!"Nice! How did you like it? I don't know if you have seen "Undertow," but it has sort of a similar feel. Definitely two of my all time favorites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kPzuY...
Hey I'm finally watching "Shotgun Stories"- it's on IFC!
The Tie That Binds is completely knocking me on my ass with its greatness. I can't believe it was written in 1984! When Bret Easton Ellis was coked-out in some New York nightclub bathroom stall, Haruf was out in a cabin writing about crazy ranchers who sever their hands in wheat cutters and run around swinging their bloody limbs at people's faces.
I haven't had the chance to read a detailed biography of Jack London. I have read Martin Eden, which is purported to be at least somewhat autobiographical. If you haven't read it, it is especially interesting for anyone interested in writing or the field in general. Jack London is brilliant and from what I've heard he lived a pretty wild life. It's too bad he didn't get a chance to write more. But, such is the price you pay when you live a lifetime of boozing and spend your final days taking enough morphine to kill a large horse.
Have you read a Jack London biography yet? I'm kind of anxious to, considering he was a crazy drunken fighting kinda guy.
