It’s Tuesday: The Way West

It’s the day for a few sentences to tempt you to read a good book. I’m reading The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. It’s an excellent classic about traveling the Oregon Trail. Where am I?

The year is 1845 and I’m traveling from Independence, Missouri to free land in Oregon. It’s unbelievably hard work every day. Even though we have wagons, we are walking most of the way.

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Here are a few sentence to give you a flavor of the book:

The question was, with wood getting scarce was it right and proper for the women to cook over fires made of buffalo chips? A tomfool like himself might think the women ought to have some say in the answer.
But no. The husbands would decide and go back to their wives, serious and wise, and tell them what was right. (page 88)

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Update: I just finished the book and will have the review ready on Thursday.

What’s On My Nightstand?

Do you see this stack of books? I’ve been very greedy lately. I just want to read everything I see. I’ve started a few pages of each one and still I want more. Here’s what’s on my list:

1.  O’Pioneers by Willa Cather. I’m reading this for the Decades ‘09 Challenge. Years ago I read My Antonia by the same author and haven’t forgotten it. This one seems to have the same style of writing.
2.  Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski. This is one of my Childhood Favorites I’m re-reading. It’s still so sweet.
3.  Travels With Charlie by John Steinbeck. This is an old classic that I first read about 30 years ago and I want to see if it still has that same old charm.
4.  Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie. This is her second book to be published. I’m reading them in order of publication for the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge.
5.  Home Another Way by Christa Parrish. I won this novel a couple months ago from 5 Minutes For Books. It’s the debut novel for this author and has had excellent reviews.
6.  The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. I read about half of this book a year ago and then found a copy of the audiobook at the library. The audiobook was read by the author and it was superb. I decided I should go back and read the original again.

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