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Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What Fiction are you reading this week, Apr. 25, 2021? [View all]japple
(10,459 posts)24. Love your bookshelf, esp. that kitten section! Finished Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
and highly recommend it if you're looking for something to lift your spirits. It is a romp thru old Hollywood with a couple offbeat characters. I liked it very much.
Next on my list:
Andrew J. Graff: Raft of Stars
A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor. Richard Russo
An instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think theyve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before its too late?
Its the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer Fish Branson and Dale Bread Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they dont talk about.
One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them.
Four adults track them into the forest, each one on a journey of his or her own. Fishs mother Miranda, a wise woman full of fierce faith; his granddad, Teddy, who knows the woods like the back of his hand; Tiffany, a purple-haired gas station attendant and poet looking for connection; and Sheriff Cal, whos having doubts about a life in law enforcement.
The adults track the boys toward the novels heart-pounding climax on the edge of the gorge and a conclusion that beautifully makes manifest the grace these characters find in the wilderness and one another. This timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure runs like the river itself amid the vividly rendered landscape of the Upper Midwest.
Its the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer Fish Branson and Dale Bread Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they dont talk about.
One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them.
Four adults track them into the forest, each one on a journey of his or her own. Fishs mother Miranda, a wise woman full of fierce faith; his granddad, Teddy, who knows the woods like the back of his hand; Tiffany, a purple-haired gas station attendant and poet looking for connection; and Sheriff Cal, whos having doubts about a life in law enforcement.
The adults track the boys toward the novels heart-pounding climax on the edge of the gorge and a conclusion that beautifully makes manifest the grace these characters find in the wilderness and one another. This timeless story of loss, hope, and adventure runs like the river itself amid the vividly rendered landscape of the Upper Midwest.
Many thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. I hope we will get back to some kind of "normalcy" before the end of summer.
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Just finished "The Honjin Murders" by Seishi Yokomizo and getting ready to start "2034," by Elliot
dameatball
Apr 2021
#1
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley William and First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
Ohiya
Apr 2021
#8
Well, I just don't seem to be reading real books lately-I blame the pandemic!
TexLaProgressive
Apr 2021
#22