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Ridgerunner
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter, impoverished in means and aged beyond his years, is also a widower and a father. And he is determined to steal enough money to secure his son's future. Twelve-year-old Jack Boulton, born in the woods to two outlaws, now finds himself semi-orphaned and left in the care of Sister Beatrice, a formidable nun of the Anglican Order of Saint Mara. In the town of Banff, Alberta, where tourists, new immigrants, and POWs dwell among the locals, she lays claim to the boy and keeps him in cloistered seclusion in her grand old home. The boy longs to return to his family's cabin, deep in the Sawback Range. His father is coming for him. The nun won't let him go. Set against the backdrop of a distant war raging in Europe and a rapidly changing landscape in the West, Gil Adamson's follow-up to her award-winning debut The Outlander is a vivid historical novel that draws from the epic tradition and a literary Western brimming with a cast of unforgettable characters touched with humour and loss and steeped in the wild of the natural world.
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kspenmoll
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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Yesterday‘s library haul. I just cannot help myself! As the saying goes, too many books, too little time.😀 I do plan to rest & read this weekend after this exhausting week-no errands. #nunlit

AmyG You have 4 weeks to read all of these!!!!! 2w
sarahbarnes Esperanza Rising 🩵🩵🩵🩵 2w
kspenmoll @sarahbarnes I love Esperanza. Reading it with a student whose English is her second Language. 😀 2w
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Bibliogeekery
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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Next up!

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Lindy
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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Lots of geeky writerly talk in this Toronto festival conversation between Randy Boyagoda and Gil Adamson. Very satisfying to listen to. BTW, many events are recorded and available for later viewing, if you are interested. Next up this evening: Annabel Lyon at Starfest. 😊

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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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Of the novels shortlisted for the Giller Prize, this is my favourite. Literary, lush, evocative of time, place and character I enjoyed this one the most. I know that's not what necessarily piques the judges' choice, but for me it definitely does!

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@Lindy

Lindy I agree with you about the lushness and readability. But what was your takeaway? By the time I got to the reveal of the crazed murdering nun, I was rolling my eyes. Then, by the end, I wondered if Adamson just wanted a happy ending. 4y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @Lindy 🙂🙂 I liked the parts with the nun! Some parts yes, out there, but I liked it! It's been an interesting ride with this shortlist for sure! 4y
Lindy @Penny_LiteraryHoarders I‘m rereading The Glass Hotel and I love it even more than I did the first time. 😊 4y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders @Lindy the way things go for me, The Glass Hotel will win it. 😄 4y
Lindy @Penny_LiteraryHoarders ANY book except Bergen‘s and I will be happy. 4y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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Come on Ridgerunner! 🤞 for a good read! Please!

#ShadowGiller

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KVanRead
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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I‘m sorry to say I‘m going to have to call it on my #DoubleSpin. Interesting premise, but I am just not feeling the writing style, so it‘s a DNF, at least for now. Perhaps it‘s a timing thing and it will come out of #hibernation when the time is right.

Remind me @TheAromaofBooks do DNF‘s still count towards a #BookSpinBingo?

Also I‘m now on the lookout for another #Alberta book for #ReadCanada if anyone has a recommendation.

rabbitprincess Yes, DNFs count 😊 4y
MsMelissa This is my choice for Alberta 4y
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MsMelissa And my backup is this one 4y
MsMelissa I read this one years ago and remember liking it 4y
KVanRead @Book_Fiend_Melissa Thanks so much!! 4y
TheAromaofBooks Yes DNFs count!! The goal is to get books off the list, so a bail works for me!! 4y
KVanRead @TheAromaofBooks Perfect. Works for me, too! 😊 Thanks! 4y
Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira Tag book is what I‘m planning to read for #Alberta 4y
KVanRead @Josee.a.lu.lit.et.lira Thanks for the suggestion!! 4y
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Lindy
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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Set in the mountains around Banff, Alberta, this literary historical novel has the propulsion and atmosphere of a western. My full review and Giller prediction is here: https://lindypratch.blogspot.com/2020/08/ridgerunner-by-gil-adamson.html?m=1 #shadowgiller #canlit #CanadianAuthour

LeahBergen I‘m really looking forward to this one. It‘s a sequel of sorts to The Outlander, isn‘t it? 4y
Lindy @LeahBergen Yes, although you don‘t have to have read the first one. It starts 14 years later, with Mary‘s death. 4y
LeahBergen 👍🏻 4y
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Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira That reads really interesting. Thanks for the highlight, 📚 add for me 😊 4y
Lindy @Josee.a.lu.lit.et.lira 😇 4y
rabbitprincess Loved this! 4y
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Lindy
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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How beautiful to watch weather work at a distance, without the slightest need to decide what that weather would mean to you. Rain, snow, lightning, it was happening to someone else.
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Jennick2004 Oh my gracious is that gorgeous!!! 4y
SamAnne Beautiful! 4y
Lindy @Jennick2004 @SamAnne Seeing weather across distance is something I sometimes take for granted about living on the northern edge of the prairies. It‘s good to be reminded of the awesome beauty. 4y
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Lindy
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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But a small town is a living engine run on talk, innumerable bees grumbling in their paper cells. Jack heard it everywhere he went. Gossip, opinionation, conjecture, speculation, debate.

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Lindy
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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Supper after an afternoon of drinking too much mead and Fin du Monde ale. And a book, of course.

Jaimelire I love mead 4y
Lindy @Jaimelire 🐝🍻My favourite is from Fallen Timber meadery https://www.fallentimbermeadery.ca/# 4y
rabbitprincess Mmm Fin du Monde! 4y
Lindy @rabbitprincess unibroue is an excellent brewery, isn‘t it? 4y
Cathythoughts Sounds like fun 😁 4y
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rabbitprincess
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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LOVED this totally unexpected but also totally welcome sequel to Adamson‘s previous novel, The Outlander. Now I want to read that one again. Loved the sense of place and the return of the characters, and the thrilling story they were involved in.
#ReadCanada challenge: Alberta (set in Banff and Lake Louise and environs)

MsMelissa Excellent. I need to read Outlander. 4y
rabbitprincess @Book_Fiend_Melissa It is so good! 😄 4y
MsMelissa I wish someone would pay me to read (want I want) all day 😂 4y
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rabbitprincess @Book_Fiend_Melissa I am on vacation right now so could argue that I am being paid to read what I want 🤣🤣 4y
MsMelissa Nice! Are you doing anything fun (other than reading)? 4y
rabbitprincess @Book_Fiend_Melissa Eating junk food and watching TV! I‘m at my parents‘ and we binge watched 4 eps of a documentary called Inside the Tower of London 😀 4y
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TheKidUpstairs
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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🖤 Ridgerunner - Gil Adamson (tagged)

🖤🖤 Exit the Actress - Priya Parmar

🖤🖤🖤 Eden Robinson

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Eggs Thanks for joining in 👏🏻📚🤗 5y
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rabbitprincess
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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#BookMail 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I wasn‘t expecting this until May 12 at the earliest, so this was awesome.

TheKidUpstairs Jealous! I'm hoping for it as a mother's day gift 🤞 5y
rabbitprincess @TheKidUpstairs I hope you get it! 😊 5y
TheKidUpstairs Mine is arriving today! Squeee!!!! 5y
rabbitprincess @TheKidUpstairs Yay! Enjoy! I haven‘t started reading it yet. Might save it for whenever I go visit my parents, because my mum will definitely want to read this too 😊 5y
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TheKidUpstairs
Ridgerunner | Gil Adamson
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I only just found out about this!!!! Only one month to wait!!!! (I'm a little excited.... can you tell?)

rabbitprincess So excited!!! 5y
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