Finished reading Leavin' Trunk Blues by Ace Atkins this past
Sunday ... a good little read worth adding to the shelf if
you're into detailed, descriptive stories. I haven't read
Atkins's first yet, Crossroad Blues, and LTB doesn't inspire
me to move it to the top of the TBR stack, but I did buy it
to read sometime in the future.
Read Give Us A Kiss by Daniel Woodrell on my flight to
Albuquerque, NM on Monday ... not a negative for the book
though. Good story and a nice contrast piece to LTB (The
Dying Ground by Nichelle D. Tramble being another one to LTB
... both showing the end of the line to the great migration
after WWII from the South to the North and West. The first
Woodrell that I picked up was Tomato Red ... its sitting
around her somewhere with a bookmark stuck in the short end
of the beginning. I'll have to pick it up again in a month or
so and see if I can get it kick started again. I can always
bring it along on a plane trip for captive reading time. Not
that they are necessarily the best examples, but GUAK and LTB
do provide definitive works to show the difference between
Southern Noir and Country Noir. If you ain't read 'em and
you're lookin' for something to read, pick 'em up. They're
all worth the time spent on 'em.
-- Anthony Dauer Alexandria, VA
Judas ... a stretch of the mean streets on the web
http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/
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