The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shado...
"You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out - have you learned that?" 'Shug' Akins learns the hard way, between the beatings delivered by his father Red and the pampering of his m...
End of the year book report time. While crowds of people pack themselves into Times Square a couple of miles due west from me I'll give some thoughts on this particular book.I expected to love this. After Karen's glowing review of Winter's Bone. Instead of being blown away by this book I was j...
A powerful coming of age story that dances between the bloody chaos of guerilla war and lively, resilient spirit of a young man with true grit. The scene is rural southern Missouri in the American Civil War, which experienced a terrible anarchy as a slave-holding state unable to commit as a stat...
20 jan 15, tuesday afternoon, 1:39 p.m. e.s.t.haven't read story one from jones, matthew f. this is the 1st. i'm certain that box top right readers also enjoyed with the scroll-work of covers brought me here. saw it. clicked on it. read a bit in the way of description, review. here i am. last sto...
Imaru that! Imaru will! Imaru must!Or, could be, it was just nerves, panic, the bedlam of sudden sorrow.I hit Gum Creek kind of fast and the Volvo bounced angrily. I kept the headlights on, but seeing the rocks didn’t smooth them any. I feared ambush on the main road. The Volvo jostled and shimmi...
Color yellow it got white-ring tires that rhyme the way round and the exhaust has slipped loose and is dragging sparks from it. There are stickers from the many funny places she been to on the bumper and two or three of her ideas are pasted on the fenders. A band-aid that look just like a band-ai...
He sat comfy in his air-conditioned cop car watching for sweaty citizens he could make sweat extra. This occurred at the Willis and Oates grocery store on the near side of town, and the lot that stretched wide had the color of oil. Quite a number of vehicles parked there, a big percentage belongi...