Book Report August 2010
Book Report, August 2010
I’ve had a couple of exciting trips to the bookstore the last few weeks. I just finished a new story for Dreamspinner and I wanted to clear my head/stuff my head before starting anything new.
Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne, is the story of Quanah Parker and the Comanche in Texas. Very exciting and brutal story about the American West, one of my favorite non-fiction reading topics. Gorgeous writing. I haven’t read any of this author’s books before, but I really enjoyed the style of storytelling. In telling the story of the Comanche and Quanah, from the height of their power to the days on the reservation, he tries to give both the Comanche and the Texan point of view. I think it would have been exciting to just tell the story from the Comanche pov, but the man does still have to live in Texas. Where people have very long memories. My family is from Texas, and when I told my mom I was moving to the Navajo reservation to work, she said, ‘don’t go live with the Comanche. You can’t imagine what those people did in Texas.”
He has an epigram from Cormac McCarthy that I really like: The desert wind would salt their ruins and there would be nothing, no ghost or scribe, to tell any pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had lived in this place and in this place had died.
When I leave Mr. Parker and the Comanche in Oklahoma, I have some collections of stories to read- two Boise Boys: Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr, and Letting Loose the Hounds, by Brady Udall. Also John Grisham’s Ford County Stories and Stephen O’Connor’s Here Comes Another Lesson. I’m very fond of short forms and have been really looking forward to these books.
And just to keep up in what is happening in this century, war-wise, I have The Good Soldier by David Finkel and Every Man in the Village is a Liar, by Megan Stack. I wonder how much has changed, war-wise, since Quanah Parker rode with the Quahadi?
My novella Anagama Fires has recently been published by Dreamspinner Press. I love this story. The main characters are both potters, so I got to write lots of cool scenes with clay and raku kilns and glaze. And they are in love again, at the end, which is all I hope for in life, my dears, that and lots of books.
http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/stor...
I’ve had a couple of exciting trips to the bookstore the last few weeks. I just finished a new story for Dreamspinner and I wanted to clear my head/stuff my head before starting anything new.
Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne, is the story of Quanah Parker and the Comanche in Texas. Very exciting and brutal story about the American West, one of my favorite non-fiction reading topics. Gorgeous writing. I haven’t read any of this author’s books before, but I really enjoyed the style of storytelling. In telling the story of the Comanche and Quanah, from the height of their power to the days on the reservation, he tries to give both the Comanche and the Texan point of view. I think it would have been exciting to just tell the story from the Comanche pov, but the man does still have to live in Texas. Where people have very long memories. My family is from Texas, and when I told my mom I was moving to the Navajo reservation to work, she said, ‘don’t go live with the Comanche. You can’t imagine what those people did in Texas.”
He has an epigram from Cormac McCarthy that I really like: The desert wind would salt their ruins and there would be nothing, no ghost or scribe, to tell any pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had lived in this place and in this place had died.
When I leave Mr. Parker and the Comanche in Oklahoma, I have some collections of stories to read- two Boise Boys: Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr, and Letting Loose the Hounds, by Brady Udall. Also John Grisham’s Ford County Stories and Stephen O’Connor’s Here Comes Another Lesson. I’m very fond of short forms and have been really looking forward to these books.
And just to keep up in what is happening in this century, war-wise, I have The Good Soldier by David Finkel and Every Man in the Village is a Liar, by Megan Stack. I wonder how much has changed, war-wise, since Quanah Parker rode with the Quahadi?
My novella Anagama Fires has recently been published by Dreamspinner Press. I love this story. The main characters are both potters, so I got to write lots of cool scenes with clay and raku kilns and glaze. And they are in love again, at the end, which is all I hope for in life, my dears, that and lots of books.
http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/stor...
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