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My reading plans for #weekendreads

I did make it to chapter 27 (there are 70 chapters) and I did, really did want to hang in there but I fear I‘m in a reading slump and a 700 page novel is perhaps not the best book to get me out of it.

Hey #naturalitsy! There‘s a really good book about today‘s A Tree a Day! I got to meet the author at my public library about 20 years ago, and read this fascinating book as a result.
📸 Taken with my Georgia O‘Keeffe Ponderosa bookmark, “Bear Lake, New Mexico, 1930”

This book was a fascinating, digressive wild ride. If you're able to accept the male chauvinist redneck attitudes, it is quite the slow-moving train wreck.

#12booksof2024 @Andrew65

In 1693 2 young Frenchmen, Rene Sel & Charles Duquet travel to New France, & get employed by the same ‘seigneur‘. One escapes & the other stays. For the next 400 yrs we learn how their decision effects their family line

A story about the conquering of land by the Europeans & the destruction of the greats threes that had been standing there for hundreds of yrs. A story about what humans do with things that are in plentiful & will never disappear

Every bit as good as the first two books in the series and I raced through this one just as fast as those two. Great setting, memorable characters, plenty of crime with lots of twists and turns before you get to the solution, and fantastic writing are what you want in any book and this series has all of it and more. I don‘t know how I missed this series when it first came out but I‘m definitely making up for lost time now. Great read!

As I get ready to start the third book in the series, I think it‘s fairy to say I‘m hooked.

Oof! 😳 I really did not like this book. And I LOVE John Irving. This is the eighth of his novels that I‘ve read and I didn‘t feel any spark. I found it unnecessarily repetitive and the constant use of descriptors instead of a pronoun irritated me (“the future writer”, “the former river driver” “the Mexican house cleaner”). And I hated Ketchum. I will still keep reading Irving, you can‘t win ‘em all. This one just was not for me. Womp Womp.

Thanks @Eggs for the #WondrousWednesday tag! 🤗

I‘ve always loved this 📚quote:

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.” -Annie Dillard, The Living

Book 3 of the series of 20. I like how the characters are developing. They are simple stories in a way but entirely enjoyable. I thought this one had enough twists and turns to be captivating. I like the mixture of story elements and the northern Minnesota location. Will keep reading the series.