My Thoughts

I am truly enjoying reading the novels of Willa Cather recently.  Set in the Plains states during the late 1800s, I am getting an opportunity to experience what would've been the life of my Swedish ancestors.  Many of Cather's main characters are of Swedish descent, and the reasons for their migration across the Great Plains was often financial opportunity and the promise of carving out a life.  Although fictional, much of Cather's life is recorded in these stories.  I did not select the Cather novels because of these factors.  In fact, I had no idea what she wrote.  I just knew her name. Imagine my great surprise when the topics of her novels allowed me to connect with my Swedish ancestry.  To date, I have completed "My Antonia" and "O Pioneers".  I have started "Song of the Lark"; I am not sure what to think about it yet. My other trip through history comes with "Downton Abbey".  It only offers a glimpse of history related to th...

My Kindle and I are on the outs right now.........I am pretty mad about the Veronica Roth attempt to wrap up her "Divergent" series with the third book, "Allegiant".  It took me only a couple of days to complete the first two in the series, and here I am, 8 days in, and I am only halfway through "Allegiant".  Seriously. In sharp contrast is my obsessive need to complete Gillain Flynn's "Gone Girl" which I detested at the beginning.  Now, I cannot get enough.  I honestly feel like an infatuated, love struck teenager as I troll any internet information about the book.  Breathe!!  1, 2, 3.  It's healthy, I guess.  I am not much impressed with Gillian Flynn herself.........there is just something about her:  her hair, her fair complexion, her smug attitude in interviews. Ok, ok.............I have done some research on her too.  She is able to pull off the multiplicity in characterization that Veronica Roth cannot.  As a writer, I wa...