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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie
Grove Press, 2005
That's How I Do Life Sometimes By Making The Ordinary Just Like Magic... -Sherman Alexie
+ No Reservations and other states of the Nations
+ stories as evocative as any novel
+ Very good writer
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Sons of the Profits
William Speidel
Nettle Creek Publishing Co, 2003
Great read!
+ History as comedy
+ Entertaining
This is one of the best history books that I've read in years. Bill Speidel's witty story telling enhances the already amusing history about the people who founded Seattle. It's nice to read a book that doesn't 'fluff' the truth about people and politics. This a defiantly a MUST READ book!!
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The Brothers K
David James Duncan
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1996
Simply Outstanding
+ Sick Money!
+ Extraordinary
+ MY FAVORITE BOOK
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
David Guterson
Vintage, 1995
A Beautiful Story
+ "Let Fate, Coincidence and Accident Conspire; Human Beings Must Act on Reason..."
+ A Masterpiece
What amazed me about this book was the way the story was told. It's kind of a courtroom drama, kind of a romance, and very much a commentary on the state of a torn and divided nation after World War II. On the North end of Puget Sound there was a murder and the accused, Kabuo Miyamoto is a friend ...
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Atomic Farmgirl: Growing Up Right in the Wrong Place
Teri Hein
Mariner Books, 2003
First-hand Evidence
+ Pleasant & Informative Memoir
+ A Good Read
I look at Teri's book differently than others. I see first-hand evidence of distastrous effects of low dosage nuclear radiation. Teri mentions that in a few sq mile area where she grew up, a large % of people have died, or are suffering side effects, of nuclear fallout. I knew, or know, all of the ...
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A Sudden Country: A Novel
Karen Fisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
Oregon trail history now grips my heart.
+ spectacularly beautiful prose
+ Best novel I've read in a long time...
Growing up where the Oregon Trail ruts cut through western Nebraska, its story was familiar in a vague, serene way. Through Lucy, James MacLaren and the other characters of "A Sudden Country," my heart is now forever gripped with the pathos of that trail. Karen Fischer weaves the broken strands of ...
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Seattle
Tiger Oak Publications
Dreamy Articles about Spas and Cooking
Well, in the November issue last year, this magazine had a spa getaway section. Now I know why so many people were in La Conner the last time I was there. There is a top-secret spa hiding there. Who knew! I love La Conner and had no idea there was a day spa there.
They also featured the "Salish ...
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Ten Little Indians
Sherman Alexie
Grove Press, 2004
"It's tough to be a smart girl anywhere," (ain't that the truth)
+ "Dear Lord, how much longer should I mourn the loss of Jerry Garcia?"
+ ken boire author of Inherit the Tide
+ A real gem!
+ Every character is fascinatingly complicated
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Rodeo Queens: On the Circuit With America's Cowgirls
Joan Burbick, 2004
the real deal
+ Here's the reality of the "myth" of the cowboy West
+ Women's stories tell of their successes and failures
As the great-granddaughter of one of Pendleton OR.'s first rodeo queens, and the daughter of a former Wa-Hi Farmerette, I believe Burbick hits the bull's eye with her exploration of western women. Only those so entrenched in the false mythology of the west would take offense at these incredibly ...
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Sunset (1-year)
Sunset Magazine, 2001
My Favorite Magazine
+ The Gift that Keeps on Giving
+ Great Magazine for a Year or Two
+ I love this magazine
+ received
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Rodeo Queens: On the Circuit With America's Cowgirls
Joan Burbick, 2004
the real deal
+ Here's the reality of the "myth" of the cowboy West
+ Women's stories tell of their successes and failures
As the great-granddaughter of one of Pendleton OR.'s first rodeo queens, and the daughter of a former Wa-Hi Farmerette, I believe Burbick hits the bull's eye with her exploration of western women. Only those so entrenched in the false mythology of the west would take offense at these incredibly ...
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A Sudden Country: A Novel
Karen Fisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
Oregon trail history now grips my heart.
+ spectacularly beautiful prose
+ Best novel I've read in a long time...
Growing up where the Oregon Trail ruts cut through western Nebraska, its story was familiar in a vague, serene way. Through Lucy, James MacLaren and the other characters of "A Sudden Country," my heart is now forever gripped with the pathos of that trail. Karen Fischer weaves the broken strands of ...
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Sunset (1-year)
Sunset Magazine, 2001
My Favorite Magazine
+ The Gift that Keeps on Giving
+ Great Magazine for a Year or Two
+ I love this magazine
+ received
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
David Guterson
Vintage, 1995
A Beautiful Story
+ "Let Fate, Coincidence and Accident Conspire; Human Beings Must Act on Reason..."
+ A Masterpiece
What amazed me about this book was the way the story was told. It's kind of a courtroom drama, kind of a romance, and very much a commentary on the state of a torn and divided nation after World War II. On the North end of Puget Sound there was a murder and the accused, Kabuo Miyamoto is a friend ...
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The Brothers K
David James Duncan
Dial Press Trade Paperback, 1996
Simply Outstanding
+ Sick Money!
+ Extraordinary
+ MY FAVORITE BOOK
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