Tall Tales from Kansas
My name is Carol. I live in Kansas. I write about stuff that happens to me as I walk through the world. Most of it is true.
Category: Books
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Let me just dive right into this mish-mash of topics I am throwing out into the world today. Firstly, I just finished Kingdom of the Blind – the 14th installment of the Three Pines series by Louise Penny. It’s all I can do NOT to immediately go and get installment 15 because I want to…
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This week I finished the 5th installment in the Amgash series by Elizabeth Strout. Tell me Everything came out in 2024, but I had not gotten to it until now. I like to save up my favorites sometimes, holding back till I am fully present and ready to read something I know I am going…
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I have a humdinger of a suggestion for you if you are looking for a book with a quirky main character (Janina Duszejko) who lives in a small village on the border between Poland and the Czech Republic and during the long winter “minds” the homes of the residents who are only there in the…
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My latest listen on the libby app is shown below – My Huband’s Wife by Alice Feeney. It was a twisty, turny, winding, up and down, non-stop, couldn’t put it down, sort of book. I had to listen to the last 7 minutes twice, just to be sure I I had it all straight in…
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As I crossed over Newfoundland today, bound for JFK, I finished When God was a Rabbit, by Sarah Winman. I think this was her debut novel. It’s the story of Elly and her brother Joe, the childhood events that bind them together and how their relationship evolves through the years. They face tragedies, we meet…
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James by Percival Everett is my latest finish on the libby app. It’s been on my list for a bit. I read Tom Sawyer, and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn many, many, years ago. This story has me considering a re-read of the Huckleberry Finn tale. I do not recall in any detail exactly what…
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I just finished this little treasure of a book, Foster by Claire Keegan. A short story if you will, about a young girl who is sent to live with relatives when her mother is about to have yet another baby. The reader senses that things are hard at home, not enough food to go around,…
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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (nd his mother) is the tale of a 63 year old Lebanese man living with his mom in Beirut. It starts in 2023 but moves back and forth in time to provide context for all the things happening in the present. As an adult, Raja is a…
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I recently finished listening to The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb. It’s been on my list for a bit and when it came up on my Libby app I settled in. Insert big, deep sigh here – let me just tell you the first part of it is hard. The writer is setting things…
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I recently finished listening to Vigil by George Saunders. It is read by a cast of narrators, which was initially a bit off-putting to me, but I got used to it fairly quickly. I wasn’t sure I was going to read it, after the rather less than favorable (to put in kindly) review in the…
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