This or That Reading Challenge discussion

This: Read a book that has less than 10 reviews on Amazon or GoodReads.
That: Read a book that has over 500 pages in it.

For this challenge I chose That: Read a book that has over 500 pages in it, and read Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (569 pages). It's a multi-generational story of a family both in the late 19th century untamed West, as well as the remnants of that family in the 1970s. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.

And I didn't like it. 😆 While some of the stories of frontier life were interesting, the 1970s protagonist didn't seem to do a good job of learning lessons despite all the historical studying. I gave it 2.5 stars.

This book was just shy of 500 pages but it still counted. I chose and read The Witch of Cologne.
This woman lived in a dangerous time, where the simplest and honest deeds such as being a midwife, especially to women often of another belief system could spell imprisonment and often death. I loved that despite her beliefs and her education (she dressed as a boy to receive education), the main character Ruth lived her own life and she faced everything bravely. I definitely giving this a read.