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OutsmartYourShelf
The Last Season | Eric Blehm
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When Randy Morganson disappeared, he had been a volunteer backcountry ranger in a national park for almost 30 years. Mainly based in the Sierra Nevada, he grew up feeling that the wilderness was his real home & where he was truly happy & his job was always more of a vocation than a career.

When he went missing whilst patrolling his allotted area, Randy had been having some troubles in his personal life & those he worked with (continued)

OutsmartYourShelf were unsure if he had just walked away or was out there somewhere injured & waiting for help. This is the story of Randy's life & the search for him in an area which had hidden the wreckage of a plane crash for almost 20 years. It was the proverbial 'needle in a haystack' situation. Can they find him & will it be in time?

This is an intriguing read. What could have happened? After setting the scene of his disappearance, the narrative goes back in
4mo
OutsmartYourShelf time to consider Randy's childhood & we return to his past at several junctures throughout the book. Randy had plenty of good points in his love of nature & wish to conserve the wilderness for future generations, but he was also a complicated man & made some decisions which were rather selfish.

It was really interesting even if the reader has a looming sense of sadness as there wasn't much doubt that there wouldn't be a happy resolution to this
4mo
OutsmartYourShelf one. I was expecting it to remain open-ended but there is sort of an ending even if it is mainly conjecture at this point. 4🌟

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5686572506
Read 20th-21st Aug 2024

#ReadAway2024 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES
#192025 (2006) @LibraryBelle
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DieAReader 🥳Great 4mo
Librarybelle Awesome! 4mo
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Karisimo
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I recommend this book so much at my library that I had to buy extra copies to keep it on the shelf! It's an epic story set in medieval like times. The book starts the series with 15 year old Will just learning what being a ranger is all about.

#middlegrademonday #spies

Daisey I‘ve heard good things about this book but never read it. May have to move it up the TBR. 7mo
dabbe #ditto what @Daisey said! 🤩 7mo
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JoeMo
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This is one of those books that ruins the dreams and silly ideas you have in your head regarding if you had made different choices in life. Specifically, it shows the many ways in which being a park ranger is frustrating and at times even traumatic. The book started off as a series of stories conveying how hard the ranger life is. As it progressed, it focused more on the lives of two specific rangers with results both tragic and touching. 4/5

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JuliaTheBookNerd
Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan
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Eggs Gorgeous 1y
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Hooked_on_books
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Andrea Lankford worked as a park ranger for a decade and details here some of her experiences. This is basically the nonfiction accompaniment to Nevada Bart‘s Anna Pigeon books. I really liked this, though be aware there are some brief but frank descriptions of traumatic injuries and deaths.

Megabooks Stacked! 2y
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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#Bridge 🔥🏹 #MayMontage 🥳💐♊️

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Eggs 🧡🌉👍🏼 2y
Johanna414 One of my favorite series! I've gotten so many coworkers and students hooked on them! 2y
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humouress
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Reading this after finishing a group read of the original 10 books of the Belgariad universe and the banter is similar. Horace is not as naive as he used to be and gives as good as he gets. Horace, Halt and Will are on mission. Well paced and the action is described well and believable.

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humouress
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Horace and Will tease Halt, who has always been a figure of authority in these books.

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Bookfan1414
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That moment when you are knee deep in a reading slump so you go back to a series that has never done you wrong. And proceed to read 5 of 10 books in less than 6 hours. I also may or may not have borrowed all of this series and all of the connected series in advance - which is like 20 books…. Whoops 😅