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This is not one of my favorites. At all. But I will not be forgetting it any time soon.

The father of the Mason family could have been written about my father. Bo has a volatile temper. He explodes with violence, and I found myself shaking and saying to myself, "Don't, it will just make him mad."

It is a great book and I highly recommend because of the beautiful writing. It just brought back too many memories.

The bright hard dividing lines between senses blurred, and buttercups, smell of primrose, feel of hard gravel under body and elbows, sight of the ghosts of mountains haunting the southern horizon, were one intensely-felt experience focused by the song the book had evoked.

This book is fantastic and I have never heard of the writer, but it reminds me of Cormac Mccarthy so I wonder if he had been influenced by Stegner.

Books that render great insight may provide it gradually over time or with great suddenness. Often the best novels don't completely reveal themselves the first time through, demanding to be understood at the right age and state of mind, in readings separated by the passage of years.

Robert Stone
Introduction

True!

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again,
As soon as you are in
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws or picks,
I'ma goin' to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the Turk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Pretty well sums up the saga of Harry Mason, undomesticated & always looking for the quick buck.

I have an embarrassment of riches happening simultaneously, which rarely happens. Listening to the tagged book on audio, reading The Professor‘s House for the #catherbuddyread, and savoring The Overstory word by word and sentence by sentence.

Look Both Ways is our current read aloud. Jury is still out.

Mythos I‘m just going to have to start and accept that I‘m going to have to read it story by story here & there. That is difficult for me.

Stegner makes writing seem like it must be as easy as taking a nap under a shady tree in the summertime. It flows along naturally and effortlessly. 👌🏾

I‘m only 5 chapters in, but I know I‘m in for a treat. Angle of Repose is one of my all time favorite novels, so I hope my expectations aren‘t set too high! 😬

Stegner is the master of this kind of novel – a big, sprawling multigenerational story about the Mason family as they struggle to survive hardships over three decades in the early 20th century. Everything I‘ve read by Stegner has been a masterpiece. 4/5 stars

Epic storytelling. Very good for listening.

Lunch and a book! Coconut shrimp with Orange Marmalade sauce!!! It‘s soooo good!!! One of my favorite at home meals, hands down! And the book is pretty good too, so far anyway. I have heard several people on different podcasts mention this book so I went and hunted it down!! Plus the title of the book reminds me of a crazy Wee Sing movie I used to watch as a kid called “The Big Rock Candy Mountain!!” 🍭🍬🏔

Sweeping family drama, beautiful writing. ❤️

So this one is a stretch, but bear with me. 😄. #sunshine made me think of that 'you are my sunshine' song - which made me think of the o brother where are art thou soundtrack, so I had to listen to that. While listening to that soundtrack, one song reminded me of this book that has been on my #tbr for years... and here we are. Sorry not sorry. 😆#maybookflowers (minor #catsoflitsy cameo)

So I think the cat likes my new book bag.

That feeling you get when you open the book you've been eagerly anticipating, and you can tell from the very first sentence that it is going to be exactly as amazing as you expected ...

November Reads;8 books

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.

Breaking my week day social media posting fast because I couldn't resist this one #alltimefavebooks #augustphotochallenge