Sorry - I was juggling my phone during lunch.

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I usually just ride a unicyle, myself.  That frees up both hands with
which to eat.

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Holly Soboroff
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sorry - I was juggling my phone during lunch. It's Larry McMurtry that wrote
> Dead Man's Walk - it's a prequel to Lonesome Dove and shorter. And McMurtry
> doesn't fit some of the early western genre tropes (the heroes are not
> especially good people) but my dad said the reason he loved Lonesome Dove
> was that the Louis L'Amour books he loved growing up were too perfect,
> whereas Dead Man's Walk is about two dumb kids who stumble their way west.
>
> Holly
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:21 PM Holly Soboroff <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>
>> My dad recommended Dead Man's Walk, by Larry McGurty when I took that
>> class this summer  - though that's not old school westerns. If steampunk
>> counts, I'd suggest Boneshaker by Cheri Priest or Karen Memory by Elizabeth
>> Bear. (I'm guessing they do not.)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016, 12:14 PM Amy Tollison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am a library student and am taking a Reader's Advisory class. I'd like
>>> to read a western for our reading database assignment, and I have not really
>>> read in this genre. I do enjoy pioneer stories in historical fiction like
>>> the Little House series, Lauraine Snelling's and Tracie Peterson's stories
>>> set in the west, and so on. Could I get some recommendations of titles or
>>> authors that would be good to start with? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Amy Tollison
>>> Adult Services Manager
>>> Mary Wood Weldon Memorial Library
>>>
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