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Short rounds: people and their places
In One No, Many Yeses, journalist and green activist Paul Kingsnorth detailed his journeys across the world, spending time with people who were actively resisting globalization — or rather, the disruptions that globalization caused in their local communities. Real England: … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged 1970s, 2000s, Alabama, American South, Britain, localism, Louisiana, memoir, Mississippi, Nonfiction 2025, politics, travel
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Top Ten Books with “South” in the Title
Today’s treble T is top ten books with ____________ in the title, so I chose to go with South, or Southern. Given that I’m a librarian in a southern river town, I really should read more southern literature… But first, … Continue reading
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The Disappeared
Joe Pickett has a problem. The new governor, who is a bully and an ass, has discovered that Joe used to do a little investigating for the former governor on the sly, especially when local authorities were regarded as corrupt … Continue reading
Vicious Circle
Warning: this review contains substantial spoilers for Endangered. Two years ago, rodeo star and all-around-terrible-human being Dallas Cates was imprisoned for multiple accounts of wanton elk destruction, an almost anticlimactic end to his family’s war against the state of Wyoming … Continue reading
Off the Grid
Warning: This review contains partial/mild spoilers for Endangered. While attending a rally for a governor’s race on behalf of his wife-the-librarian who needs the presumed gubernatorial winner’s support to renovate her library, Game Warden Joe Pickett bumps into the current … Continue reading
Ten Things I’ve Loved about the Joe Pickett Series
Today at lunch, I finished Battle Mountain and am therefore caught up with the Joe Pickett series. While it’s partially a relief to be able to read something else, I have rather enjoyed my habit in the last two months … Continue reading
Shots Fired
Shots Fired is a bit of a stray on the CJ Box book ranch, a collection of short stories rather than a Pickett novel – and some of the stories don’t even involve Joe! Interestingly, there’s also a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged CJ Box, Fiction 2025, historical fiction, modern western, short story collection
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Endangered
Game Warden Joe Pickett has just discovered a massacre. Someone has slaughtered over twenty sage grouse – nearly an entire breeding group – and left their bodies to rot, shooting them just for malevolent thrills. Joe goes to work processing … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday
WHAT have you finished recently? Three Inch Teeth, CJ Box. WHAT are you reading now? Battle Mountain, CJ Box. And then…I shall be caught up. WHAT are you reading next? Will probably turn my full attention to Summer of Blood … Continue reading
