Books! How do you read and what do you read?

[Marquest]

I’m reading Kristen Hannah’s “The Four Winds”…. Set during depression/dust bowl— first in Texas panhandle then in California.

Not a ‘fun’ read but well written and gripping. Kind of like reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “The Long Winter”. Jerk me out of any complacency and self-pity about how my life is going and any so-called inadequacies in my life.

Hi CinammonSugar, I read that book a couple yrs ago, agree with you thought it was too long
2 of my favorite books by the author' The Great Alone' and' Nightingale' Sue

I really loved Nightingale. Was The Great Alone the one in Alaska? Bc I didn't like that one, about domestic violence which is on my list of no-more-books-about!

 

[CinnamonSugar]

I really loved Nightingale. Was The Great Alone the one in Alaska? Bc I didn't like that one, about domestic violence which is on my list of no-more-books-about!

I read the synopsis of "The Great Alone" and I'm like you, @Marquest, I put that one back on the shelf for the same reason.

 

[StarSong]

I read the synopsis of "The Great Alone" and I'm like you, @Marquest, I put that one back on the shelf for the same reason.

Interesting. The Great Alone is in my top three faves by her, mostly because of the protagonist's relationship with people outside her family and the coping required to make it in the Alaskan wilderness.

 

[Marquest]

@CinnamonSugar I admit The Great Alone was a compelling novel, after all I kept reading to the end. It's just that I used to work at a domestic violence shelter, and don't want to read anything more on that subject. Others I usually avoid: slavery, and the Holocaust. Bc I've already read a million books on those subjects and don't feel like I need to learn about them anymore, plus they are so painful.