I love to read history and novels, fiction about the southwest, particularly the 1800's and early 1900's. It was rough country, hard to settle and took raw courage and faith in God to settle.
For Mother's Day, Lisa gave me the first book below, 'These is my Words', (300+ pages) by Nancy E. Turner, a diary of Sarah Agnes Prine. The setting is the old west in the later part of the 1800's in the Arizona territories. The book didn't disappoint. It was fabulous! So naturally I HAD to read the next two of the three part series!
' Sarah's Quilt' is the 2nd book (400 pages) and it is the early 1900's. I devoured the book in two days!
'The Star Garden' is the 3rd and final book (300 pages) and covers one year from 1906 to 1907. Action packed and again, I devoured the book in two days! I couldn't put it down! I read the first book over two weeks as we were traveling, etc. Once I got home I poured through it. Then I ordered the next two from our local library and in 4 days finished them off! What excitement! Nancy Turner had a great grandmother who left some diaries she had written. Nancy incorporated stories from those diaries along with fiction to turn out a well written and wonderful 3-book set. (No vulgar language or crudeness, there is killing, etc-it was the old west! I wouldn't read them to young children.) If you like old west history as I do and the tough and wonderful times, you will love these books. Thank you Lisa! I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. All 3 are my favorite as each one is good and I can't say I like one more than another. I could relate to Sarah in so many ways. We could have been sisters! Sarah was truly one of a kind pioneer!
4 comments:
Yay! I'm SO glad that you liked them, I knew you would! They are terrific, are you going to read that blood and water one, too?
No. It's not to my liking. I read a preview of it and I'm not going to read it. It reminds me in a way of Schindler's List and I could not stomach that. How sad for those Jewish people. I have a hard time with people being racially prejudiced and white supremecy. I was raised in the SW and know first hand how people are treated. We are all God's children no matter what color we are. Her book is probably good and she's not prejudiced, obviously by the story line, it's the 'other' people I have a hard time being Christlike about.
So you were saying I could borrow these, right?!?!
I recognize these books of Michelle's blog too (books she's read this year). I know what to read after The Five Languages of Love now!
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