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Big Bad Love, stories by Larry Brown
As I was reading Rick Bass about his culinary and reading trip across the USA, I've found out that he was a friend of Larry Brown. He goes back to Oxford, MI wh...
Electra
Summer reading
Do you already have your TBR ready for this summer? If not, these books might appeal to you. Maybe you already know their authors or you'll be curious to meet t...
Eleven Days, a novel by Lea Carpenter
I must admit that I’m always attracted to stories about war, Larry Brown's Dirty Work and Phil Klay’s short stories for instance.
In May 2011, Sara finds out t...
The lonely witness, a new novel by William Boyle
William Boyle is back in his childhood neigborhood, Gravesend.
The lonely witness is a fragile woman. She lives in a small apartment . She helps the house-boun...
La rentrée littéraire approche ! Des livres et des livres …
Sorry, this entry is only available in French....
The Royal Wulff Murders by Keith McCafferty
Going back to Montana is the best. After a few escapades in the South, I was longing for this trip back to the beautiful rivers (Yellowstone, Missouri and the M...
Dirty Work by Larry Brown
Published in 1989, it will take almost 9 years to have this book published in France and almost twenty years to be published again, by Gallmeister. Larry Brown,...
Letters to Yesenin – a poetry collection by Jim Harrison
Following my previous chronicle, I am done reading this collection of poetry, signed by that sweet Old Man Jim !
Jim Harrison is giving us his own "corresponde...
A good day to die by Jim Harrison
First novel of Jim Harrison I have read for my challenge "Jim Harrison in 12 books", A good day to die was published in 1973.
He's in this thirties, divorced, ...
Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison
I've started my own challenge "Jim Harrison in 12 books" for 2018. The best way to read again his writings and to discover the ones I've never read, his poetry ...
Books, and books !
In France, January rhythms with "rentrée littéraire" (literary season). It happens twice a year, in January and in September (the Autumn literary season). It'...
Xmas shopping #8: Books!
Have you written your letter to Santa? I actually have started one, and once again I'm pretty much only asking for books...
Have you ever heard about Larry McM...
El hijo del héroe (The Hero’s Son) ∴ Karla Suárez
This book tells the story of Ernesto, the son of a loving family born in 1970 in Cuba. His parents generation grew up with the Che and believed that Fidel Casto...
Gray Ghost, another Stoney Calhoun story from William G.Tapply
I’ve read this book in one sitting!
It felt the same as in the first time I met with good old Stoney Calhoun, in his previous novel from the trilogy William G....
The longest silence : a life in fishing by Thomas McGuane
Lovers of nature writing and fishing must know this autobiographical collection of essays about fishing by Thomas McGuane. The author tells us thirty-three stor...
Trout bum by John Gierach
I don't know about you guys, but to me, the fly fishermen were born the day I watched the movie A river runs through it. The movie was adapted from the famous ...
In your suitcase this summer : books !
Books, and books and books ! Except for your fishing gear, all you need is books !
This book is only coming out on Nov. 7 (Paperback) but I couldn't wait to ta...
Lonesome Animals by Bruce Holbert
It was time for me to go back to the Wild West. And this is done with this dusky western by Bruce Holbert, Lonesome Animals. The action takes place in 1932 in t...
Récit : Le saut oblique de la truite
We' sorry, we promis it won't happen again, but we were so thrilled by this book that we had to review it for our french readers since it's not traslated yet!
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The Animals, a book by Christian Kiefer
The winter publishing season is a big deal in France, I had set my eyes on this new novel : The Animals by Christian Kiefer. I have to add that Richard Ford's w...
In my landing net, books !
Here a few books coming up in our bookstores in France, some were published several years ago in the U.S, but not all of them ! I love to read first novels as w...
Lightning strikes by Ned Crabb
If you're looking for an "easy reading" - Ned Crabb is the man! I really enjoyed myself following the adventures of Six and Alicia in Willow Pond. I had no tro...
Butcher’s crossing, a western by John Williams
How to resist a western signed John Williams who puts a buffalo on the front cover ? Have I told you already how this animal fascinates me ? If I had a ranch, I...
The marble orchard
I was longing to start a new reading journey to Kentucky and Alex Taylor made it happen with his nove, The Marble Orchard. Another first novel, another hit.
Ke...
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
As soon as I found out that Glenn Taylor was coming to the Festival America in Vincennes, I wanted to read the book who got him to be compared to his fellow wri...
Summer reading
Holidays ! Summer has definitely set in .. and you're still wondering what to read ? Here some ideas of books you might find interesting !
Meet Early “Trenchmo...
Cry father, by Benjamin Whitmer
"Cry Father is strong medicine. It burns going down, but there's healing in that dose as well. It's a book that put me in the mind of my own Dad and made me thi...
Bent Road
On Bent Road, a battered red truck cruises ominously along the prairie; a lonely little girl dresses in her dead aunt's clothes; a boy hefts his father's rifle ...
The Marauders
In Jeanette, in Louisiana, the small bay of Barataria, in the Jefferson paris, upon the Gulf Coast, life has become tough. Formerly famous for protecting the f...
Indian Creek
I've read Indian Creek Chronicles written by Pete Fromm back in 2014 and it's still vivid in my mind so I thought I'd share it with you. If you haven't read it ...
The Axeman’s jazz
Sometimes the best book encounters you can make are not planned. The Azeman's jazz was one of them. I saw the cover and I had to get it. Does the title ring a b...
So long Jim !
Jim's sense of humor is one of a kind. While I was lying in the couch, battling fever, I suddenly heard the TV anchor announcing, at the end of his news report,...
Blood Atonement
Blood Atonement
A novel by Jim Tenuto
Meet Fly-fisherman Jim Tenuto and his fishing guide hero : Dahlgren Wallace. Published in 2006, the book features Mont...
