Category Archives: Books

This Markus Zusak (I’m thinking pen name) 2002 book won the American Library Association’s Michael L. Prinz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.� There’s a big silver P on the cover.� I read it on the recommendation of a … Continue reading →

OK, so everyone else was reading this eight years ago.� It’s true, my reading list is behind the curve.� I get around to the hot books somewhere between eight and forty years after my sister’s book club.� My reading list … Continue reading →

I’ve never read�any true crime.� For my first one, I guess it was fitting that I should pick up Truman Capote.� It was pretty darned good. It’s the story of the Clutter murder in Holcolm, Kansas in 1959.� I’m not … Continue reading →

I whipped through this 1997 Tony Hillerman in two days.� I don’t think I’ve read a Hillerman for ten years, so it’s fitting that I picked up this decade old work. I lived on the rez in Shiprock from 1986-91, … Continue reading →

My wife brought this Willa Cather classic home from the Peace Church library recently.� I’d just finished another book and it was handy, so I read it. The only other Cather I’ve ever read was Death Comes to the Archbishop, … Continue reading →