What are you currently reading?

[Lmartin5]

John Colter, his years in the Rockies!

This is next on my list!

 

[Sixmile]

Just finished these two.

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[Irrelevant]

Almost through with The Secret Knowledge of Water, by Childress. A shockingly stark contrast in writing styles to Hemingway.

This a good book worth reading if you connect with the desert. There are pieces of exceptional writing. However, MOST of the writing is overly emotional nonsense; the author clearly trying too hard to be something or someone he's not.

A couple books back I read about a lost wilderness ranger in Sequoia national Park, in that book there were some letters to the ranger, an aspiring writer, from Wallace Stegner basically telling the kid that effort does not equal talent, and even talent takes a lot of practice to refine. Childress needed to take a writing class or two from Stegner.

It's still a very worthy read. Just try not to read someone as stark as Hemingway right before.

 

[JV842]

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My next one!!!