Lise Funderburg's Apple, Tree explores the adolescent trappings and developments of its contributors, starting from the root and out to the branch where gravity takes hold of them and plots them in front of the parental gaze...

Review: https://wigginswords.com/2019/08/30/apple-tree-writers-on-their-parents-by-lise-...

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The Shootist gives a West on the brink of invention, self-identity, self-interest, and reputation power struggles. Glendon Swarthout reminds us that the antihero is not always a villain; sometimes he has a selfless spirit with self-worth from this life and the next.

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Horseman, Pass By is a post-mortem Western, looking for the cause of death of a dying generation. Raw innocence and corruption speaks to old and new age gaps coming-of-age. The hope Larry McMurtry's novel brings is that good habits never die hard, only softly.

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Johnson has written a novella that longs for meaning in the wake of loss and routine and finds it in the pit of discipline and the defiant dream.

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True Grit understands the unspoken desperation and hidden desires of the West at the turn of the century. It questions what is lawful and what is awful through a corrupt justice system and the manipulation and absence of good human nature.

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A true Western, honest & good pride, selfless spirit placeless man, his place called home. SW U.S. Gold Rush, Apache Indians killed for desert land. Hondo Lane, U.S. Army dispatch, meets Angie Lowe & her son Johnny. Son now warrior by Apache leader Vittoro. Hondo can't object or accept, b/c he has lived w/ Apaches. #hondo #johnwayne #western #novel #summer #summerreading #arizona #southwest #goldrush #west #louislamour #america #bookreview #review

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...Knowing that the novel‘s purpose is something of a transitory timepiece made the experience more fulfilling in the end as well...
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https://wigginswords.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/to-the-lighthouse-by-virginia-wool...

“It‘s poor judgement,” said Grandpa, “to call anything by a name. We don‘t know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can‘t heave them into categories with labels and say they‘ll act one way or another. That‘d be silly. They‘re people. People who do things. Yes, that‘s the way to put it: people who do things.”

– Ray Bradbury, The October Country, “The Man Upstairs”

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...His stories are so different from the next, you cannot help but wonder where the theme starts and ends until you realize it just is. The vulnerability and strength of the human condition are at the core of these stories but each are expressed from the unlikeliest of perspectives.
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