Monday, June 30, 2014

Book vs. TV: Craig Johnson's Longmire

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TV tie-in Maybe it's my meds making me grumpy, but I’m not a great fan of the TV series Longmire . Whatever TV touches usually mak...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Model behavior

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Morning clouds To be honest, there are days when I don’t feel like being a model cancer patient. This is one of them. The cause may be...
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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Glossary of frontier fiction: S
(straddlebug – syringa)

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Below is a list of mostly forgotten terms, people, and the occasional song, drawn from a reading of frontier fiction, 1880–1915. Each we...
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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Kate and Virgil Boyles,
The Homesteaders (1909)

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Brother and sister writing team, Kate and Virgil Boyles, followed their first novel Langford of the Three Bars (1907) with this one, bo...
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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Convergences

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Morning coffee in my cowboy cup This week saw a five-day course of chemo again which passed with no particular ill effects, and an inc...
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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Glossary of frontier fiction: S
(sponge gold – strabismus)

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Below is a list of mostly forgotten terms, people, and the occasional song, drawn from a reading of frontier fiction, 1880–1915. Each we...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Hamlin Garland, A Son of the Middle Border (1917)

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First edition Being a Nebraska farm boy, I grew up on a middle border between Midwest and West many decades after Garland. Yet I found...
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