Archive for January 17th, 2007

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 spilling the beans here.  There’s never any mystery as to what happened.  Four Clutters –... more »

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, and Hillerman definitely makes me nostalgic for the high desert and Navajoland.  Fallen Man in... more »

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, which I’d found to be a very dramatic title for a pleasant and unmemroable little... more »