All The Pretty Horses

Well, it was no Lonesome Dove, but it does count as #14. I did appreciate all the Spanish thrown in there, but other than that…eh. Maybe, after a few years away from NM, I'll get homesick and want to read another western, but even then, I'll probably stick with Larry McMurtry or just make Matt watch the LD movie with me again and again.

Mother Tongue

So very, very good, so good that I don't even think I have the right to talk about how fucking good it is. I kept wondering while I read why I hadn't heard of her before. The copy I checked out from the library is signed by the author. I want to steal it.

Best quote...

“When I came up from Mexico I gathered words like dung to fertilize life in this alien land. And over time I fell in love with English. Men? They came and went. But the language is mine forever and ever.” (pg. 25)

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It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry

Buy it. Read it. Cherish it. Send it to your fiancé for his birthday. Miss it when it is gone.