Thursday, September 2, 2010
Driftless
My 55th book will be 'Driftless' by David Rhodes. I just got a library card at the Boone Public Library and this is the September pick for the library book club. I thought I would give their book club a try until I can find another one. The book is about Words, Wisconsin. It is a dying rural town in the "driftless" area of Wisconsin. For other reviews it sounds like there will be several characters introduced to give their take on living in this area.
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The Altoona library is doing a discussion on this book too. I think the author might be from Iowa or something. And, there website says something about an all Iowa book read. Let me know how it is. Sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteI finally finished 'Driftless'. The author lives in Wisconsin, but graduated from University of Iowa, so there was lots of reference to both states. This book was about the Driftless area of Wisconsin in the towns Words and Grange. There were lots of individual stories in the book that all intertwined because of one character, July Montgomery. The book started out slow, but finally some action was introduced about 150 pages in. I do have complaints that there were so many stories introduced but only one story was really resolved. It seems like the other stories should have been wrapped up somehow, but maybe the author wanted them left open to show that small towns will keep living on. (Or something symbolic like that.)
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