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I should finish it later tonight - I wanna know everything. If one could call this a Western novel, or a Crime novel…let’s just say if you changed any one little thing, it wouldn’t be either. Skirting the edges…and really, it’s not a ‘genre novel’. It’s hypnotic, eye-opening Contemporary Canadian Lit of the best kind. Grey and Ezzy will stick, for a long time. I do think Western fans should get here.

Everything just heated up like a bonfire gone berserk. It's great. Meanwhile...someone has lent me an old copy of True Grit, so I can stretch June on the Range reading further, and with a classic. But I realized I have other books that kind of fit: I've got The Wild Ohio by Bart Spicer; I've got Mexican Hat by Michael McGarrity; I've even got A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan for emergencies.

I am loving this. I do consider it as wonderfully eligible for the June on the Range reading project. Yes, okay - we’re in modern times, in Alberta, not in the Southwestern USA of the 1880s. I do feel like I want to read one other, more recognizable, Western in June. But the blurb/quote calling this an “Indigenous Western” is spot on - we’re even getting the modern answer to a good ol’ “cattle drive”. Captivating!

I’m not totally digging these stories.

So far, it’s a treat.

Right - I’ve decided to participate in the June on the Range reading project. That said, I own nothing that I could just reach for and read…and the closest bookstore didn’t have Shane, or True Grit, L’ Amour, or Zane Grey. So I just browsed, and I found this book. How much of a Western is this, actually? - well, I’m not sure, it may be more darkly funny Crime stuff. Nevertheless, call it “enough of a Western”.

Gimme da penguins! Gimme what you got! Better be penguins!

I love it. It’s got me in its…clutches.

I like it. My kind of Horror book.

Terrific. I’ll need to finally see the movie, after this. I know it is, uh, let’s say, slightly altered.

Any Daredevil tale where the Gladiator shows up is a priority for me. I have read this before, but I forget it.

‘A Marked Man’, by W. W. Jacobs, was very entertaining.

It’s a fascinating novel - making me mull over a lot of things, about myself, people, the way the world ticks whether it be 1895 or 2024. I am having to adjust to the frantic, high melodrama that kicked in, in the chapter I just read. I think subtlety just fell out the window for good. But that’s okay; I’m all in.

I love it. There’s a lot of dialogue - but, (a) the conversations tend to be quite captivating; and (b), something rather shocking always comes along and revs up the plot. There’s a part of this book that seems very transparent, and it would have been interesting if it had been less obvious in a certain regard…but I do find it hard to stop reading this.

I’m reeled in already. This book goes on quite long, so I just have to hope things don’t start to drag - but this seems like it’s gonna be great.