Recommendations

[Sally, la reina]

I need a new book to read - do you guys have any recent recommendations? I'd be happy to read anything, new or old.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The Monastery by Walter Scott

More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow

If you want something kind of Woolfian and morose set in 1930s England, The Living and the Dead.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

If you're looking for a book about a troubled marriage because a woman falls in love with a horse, Mercury.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Do you like very dark books about bad parenting and alcoholism? Although every single blurb called his book funny, I didn't find it so. Well written, but nothing about it was the least funny to me.

Jernigan

[Scout]

Don't know what you're looking for, but try The Homesman. Don't be put off by the fact that it looks like a Western. It's much more than that. Or maybe Larry Brown's A Miracle of Catfish just for fun.

[evie]

The Homesman was a memorable movie. I have the book on my TBR list.

[Scout]

I hope you enjoy it like I did. The movie followed the book very well but, as we know, the book is always better :)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The Day I Died was terrible.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

You might enjoy The Song of the Lark since you have lived in small-town Colorado.