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Jan Priddy
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On the next page the cow is described as "a pretty animal, fine-boned, rounded, and grayish-brown." So... less Holstein, more Jersey or small Brown Swiss. Page 27. It's not hard to find an image of a brownish cow. A quick search found a page about Austrian dairy breeds. Her cow could be Tyrolean Grey, an Original Braunvieh coloured grey to brown, or Braunvieh described as grey-brown. Otherwise, I do like this cover.
— May 13, 2025 11:19AM
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Jan Priddy
is on page 89 of 239
Probably (hopefully) something will happen . . . soon. At this point, a great short story that's gone on a bit too long.
— May 15, 2025 04:32AM
Jan Priddy
is on page 71 of 239
The narrator worries about the right things: sanitation, dangerous wildlife, men, being found, finding food, finding greens, and running out of matches. She is over concerned about meat, but that's the culture, and so she worries about running out of ammo. But what more can this novel do?
— May 14, 2025 02:00PM
Jan Priddy
is on page 57 of 239
Of all the books I have hunted up about survival, this one does it best. I have spent years thinking about how it would be to survive alone. Haushofer mentions salt licks! [I thought I was the only one who considered the need for salt.] Oil and fat and grain and beans... the way she remembers her children, not as the adults they have become but as the little girls they once were. I believed that.
— May 13, 2025 02:05PM
Jan Priddy
is on page 26 of 239
I'd never heard of this novel before, but the cover was used when designing the cover brief at O. Wise choice, though only when I had the book in hand did I appreciate how wise.
— May 13, 2025 10:51AM
