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News of the World

Paulette Jiles

Start date: September 1, 2018

Finish date: November 30, 2018

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Mar 11, 2017 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: twenty-first-century, 5-star-reads, women, from-friends

Captain Kidd and Johanna journey from Wichita Falls, in the Texas Panhandle, to a farm southeast of San Antonio. Even today, this is a long journey, but in 1870, by wagon, it could easily take over a month. Along the way, they stop in the little towns and byways and Captain Kidd reads to the townspeople from the newspapers of the day. In this way, he brings to them the news of the world.

They say it is the journey, not the destination. I can't say with any certainty this saying was true for Johan ...more

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Apr 25, 2018 Krista rated it it was amazing

Shelves: large-print, setting-usa, native-american, historical-fiction-usa, fiction, setting-usa-tx, audio-book-cd, time-1850-1899, cari-2017, fiction-award-nominee

What a great book! It has some tense, but yet comical scenes; and the dialogue is fantastic. You've just GOT to love Captain Jefferson Kidd as he travels through Texas after the Civil War (1870) reading the news of the world to audiences in small towns.

Then his world is turned upside down when he agrees to take a former Kiowa captive back home to her family. Johanna was captured at 6 years-old, and is now 10, and a fully fledged Kiowa. This is the story of adventure, danger, pathos, empathy and ...more

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Feb 14, 2017 Teddie rated it really liked it

This is a lovely gem of a book.

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Nov 30, 2017 Joanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, audiobooks, bookclub-grasslands, 2017-read

I wrote a long review, but GR ate it. So, short version - listened to this during a long drive and really enjoyed the contrast between my safe travel on an interstate compared to the perilous journey in a wagon that these characters had.

Slight complaint about the ending suffering from Epilogue Syndrome, wherein the author doesn't know how to end and decides to just give the rest of the life history of the characters condensed in ten to fifteen pages. Not awful, but not great either.

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