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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 12:05 PM
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Quanna Parker, The Last Comache Chief...……….. The True Story of Daniel Boone...………..[/quote]
Loved these two. Nothing I've ever read fiction or non-fiction compared with To Kill A Mockingbird.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 02:57 PM
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Anything by Elmer Kelton is great. He was born and raised around Ssn Angelo. The Time it Never Rained is my favorite of all time.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 03:09 PM
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Loved Audie Murphy books. To Hell and Back was great. They made a movie based on the book..
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 03:16 PM
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Anything by Elmer Kelton is great. He was born and raised around Ssn Angelo. The Time it Never Rained is my favorite of all time. "The Good Old Boys" for me. Kelton is very Texan and very authentic.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 03:29 PM
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Any of you ever read Goodby To. A River?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 03:31 PM
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I hear that’s a good read.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 04:01 PM
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Any of you ever read Goodby To. A River? Yes. It’s one of my favorites.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 05:13 PM
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It's more important to read to your children. Cathy started talking at 9 months. It was heartwarming to hear her in her room pretending to read. She kept repeating do more, do more. I finally figured it was from a Dr Suess book called Put me in the zoo. It pays to read to your children. Literally. She got a National Merit Scholorship.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 05:39 PM
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it's nonfiction, but I like the series C.J. Box wrote about a Wyoming game warden. I also enjoy Clive Cussler, especially The Oregon Files series.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 06:11 PM
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it's nonfiction, but I like the series C.J. Box wrote about a Wyoming game warden. I also enjoy Clive Cussler, especially The Oregon Files series. Read all of Joe Pickett until his oldest daughter graduated from college. Made me want to move to Paradise Valley.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/05/20 06:30 PM
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Six years with the Texas Rangers - James B Gillet The Legend Begins - Fredrick Wilkins,, first in his four book series.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/06/20 11:43 AM
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"The time It never rained" is maybe the saddest book I have ever read. I was raised on a farm/ranch outside of Muleshoe and remember everyone looking for clouds in a drought year. Bank wasn't loaning money because they didn't want to foreclose on old friends. It brought back a lot of painful memories.
Elmer Kelton is maybe the best Western writer I've ever read. Zane Grey "maybe" the poorest.
I read old Westerns a lot. I have a deal with a book seller at the Bowie Flea Market. I buy the books and then trade them back on a 2 for 1 basis.
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Without a sense of urgency, nothing ever happens.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley, Rancher Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/06/20 12:55 PM
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"The Heart of Everything That Is:The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend". Non Fiction, great read.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/06/20 11:42 PM
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My kindle came in. Got it setup and bought Goodbye to a River and The time it never rained. I’m well into Goodbye and enjoying it.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/06/20 11:44 PM
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My kindle came in. Got it setup and bought Goodbye to a River and The time it never rained. I’m well into Goodbye and enjoying it. See?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/07/20 01:53 AM
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/09/20 04:21 PM
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In Cold Blood. This is a true story that reads like fiction. They killed the entire family and went on the run. It maded me stop picking up hitchhikers after I read it. I plan to read it again.
" In Cold Blood By Truman Capote This “masterpiece” (Life) with over 212,000 five-star Goodreads ratings investigates the shocking murder of the Clutter family in a small Midwestern town. “The best documentary account of an American crime ever written” (The New York Review of Books). Bestsellers, General Nonfiction, True Crime $1.99 $12.99.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/09/20 04:27 PM
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Almost done with Goodbye to a River. The time it never rained is next.
Cast I have a short attention spa
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/09/20 04:30 PM
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Almost done with Goodbye to a River. The time it never rained is next. Skip it and read this one first. iIts almost free. Over 212,000 five star ratings.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/18/20 09:21 PM
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Almost done with Goodbye to a River. The time it never rained is next. Have you downloaded anymore lately?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/18/20 10:10 PM
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I’m reading Tom Sawyer now. There’s a Tom Sawyer volume two I wasn’t aware of that’s next. I also downloaded the complete works of Mark Twain to browse through. I need to get ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ downloaded.
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/18/20 10:40 PM
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Bill Oxner and Cast I can see the Bromance from here.....
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/18/20 11:06 PM
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Bill Oxner and Cast I can see the Bromance from here..... You don't read?
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/18/20 11:39 PM
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Bill Oxner and Cast I can see the Bromance from here..... You don't read? Nope Read one book one time as a kid called Old Yeller, it made me depressed. I was done with books I rather watch the movie or see it in real life, I find reading to be boring..........
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Re: Gonna start reading again
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10/18/20 11:45 PM
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Lonesome Dove the novel.1986 Pulizer Prize winer. McMurtry. You think you liked the show? Read the book.
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