June TBR: June on the Range and more!
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Books discussed:
The Watchers by Jon Steele
The Chisolms by Evan Hunter
Mr Midshipman Hornblower by CS Forester
The Border Legion by Zane Grey
Vulture Wings by Dirk Hawkman
Slaughter Road by George G Gilman
High Lonesome by Louis L'Amour
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
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I have 10 westerns planned for June on the Range. The Zane Grey I chose was the Rainbow Trail. The Louis L'Amour is End of the Drive.
I hope you'll enjoy reading Lisey's Story as much as I did.
Fingers crossed!
Lisey’s Story is on my TBR. The Watchers sounds interesting. I will wait to hear your thoughts. Enjoy June on the Range! 😊💙
Looks like a good reading month! I'm going to try and read at least one Western this month. Love the goal of reading all of Stephen King's books. That could keep one busy for such a long time.
Great title and cover for Vulture Wings! I’m gonna check that out. Great vid! 👍🏻📚📚📚📚
Thanks Olly! Had never heard of the Hunter novel. Will have to read it. He's never disappointed me yet.
He's the GOAT!
I only own a handful of Westerns. Turns out one is by Zane Grey and one is by Louis L'amour!
So I'll be reading Riders of the Purple Sage and Haunted Mesa.
Then I've also got Blood Meridian--and for something completely different, River of Teeth (western with hippos).
Also reading books for Queer Lit Readathon. I might not follow the prompts on that one and just read books by or featuring LGBTQ folks. I have around 150 unread books and comics to choose from, so I don't have to think about that one too much.
Blood Meridian is quite the experience!
Hope you enjoy both JOTR and the Queer Lit readathon
My Dad used to read Louis L'Amour books.
This is my first June on the Range and I'll be reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.
I'm not sure I've ever read a western before, but I quite enjoyed watching western movies with my dad when I was a kid.
I also found a few western comics that belonged to my brother, called Zagor. It's an Italian comic series, but it's set in the American West in the 19th century, I think in Pennsylvania. I'll try one of those.
Lonesome Dove is really wonderful
I need to try more high seas adventures. I have read the first two Patrick O’Brien and one C.S. Forester in the early 80s.
I've been gearing up for this readathon for months! I do not have any straight up westerns but I had quite a few cross overs on my shelf. So here is my list; Kindness Goes Unpunished by Craig Johnson, Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman, Retribution Rails by Erin Bowman, Lone Women by Victor Lavalle and My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand. Going to maybe get a Lamour from the library but also watch some western shows and movies this month.
Looks like you've got June well-covered! 💯
Thanks Jim!
I will read The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour.
Enjoy!
Lisey's Story is one that I put down three times. Then I picked it up again and loved it.
I thought I found another book by Heather Lewis, Attention, but it turns out it's just the French version of Notice. Much more affordable than it though, and a good option for those who can read it. I planned to use a translator app to read it before realizing that. I have the new edition now, so that's not necessary anymore. Thanks for your efforts in that regard. Many people are appreciative.
Thank you! I’m so happy the book is in print again
Great TBR, Olly. I am venturing into the western genre in June also. I’ve got my Louis L’Amour novel (one of the Hopalong Cassidy books) and my Zane Grey novel ready to go. For Zane Grey, I picked Riders of the Purple Sage-because one of my favorite bands in the 1970’s, an offshoot of The Grateful Dead, took their name from Zane Grey-The New Riders of the Purple Sage! 😂 You know, come to think of it, I just read a contemporary horror/Western for the Book Tube Prize-Victor Lavalle’s Lone Women. Can that count too?😊🤠🐴
I’m so looking forward to this event. I’ve got a stack of L’Amour and Grey but have added in the first to Larry and Stretch books by Marshall Grover and some cowboy poetry too (didn’t realise that was a thing). I have True Grit narrated by Donna Tartt as my audio book. Nice video 😊
I didn't know cowboy poetry was a thing either! That Donna Tartt audiobook is great
I just finished The Sixth Shotgun. I really enjoyed it 4 ⭐. Now starting The Desert Crucible. And then I have 2 horror western books.
I'm helping run another readathon, so my readthon bucket is full, BUT I'm very excited about June bc the final Indian Lake book is on my TBR and I am super excited to finally be getting to it.
I still need to read the second one. I really need to sort that out
@@CriminOllyBlog it's so good! I immediately went out and pre-ordered Book 3 when i finished it. I definitely need to go back and reread the whole series once I'm finished.
I’m going to attempt 4 westerns in June. Yours gives me some ideas for other authors to consider - I don’t think I’ve ever read a western before, so it’s all new for me!
Hope you enjoy them!
HornBlower is a great series of books. The first few are a little flimsy but after that it’s great.
I have been in a reading slump but I have horror western on my kindle I might read or maybe get to re reading the gunsling like I had been planning. Either way hopefully I get out of this slunp
Great picks, Olly. Giddyup!
It's going to be great!
@@CriminOllyBlog Always is! Glad I’m there to balance you boys out with a female perspective 😂
Maybe it was my subconscious and I already knew, but when this video started, my first thought was: wouldn't it have been great if Ed McBain had written some westerns?
Ha ha brilliant
Lisey's Story definitely needs some time and patience but there's a lot of good stuff there.
Great tbr for June. I hope to read Lisey's Story this summer. I am looking forward to hearing what you think about the Hornblower book. I've wanted to read those for years after watching the series but still haven't got around to them yet. 🤠
I'm starting june with CJ Box's Joe Pickett series. Does modern Western count?
I don’t think I’ve ever tried a western unless King’s The Dark Tower counts
They kind of do. But not really
Have you watched the Hornblower miniseries? I highly recommend!
I haven’t! Might check that out
I hope you have a great reading month. I try not to rec books because you are surrounded by them but maybe check out the novella The Black Tree Atop the Hill by Karla Yvette. A gothic western that is both very short and very strange.
That sounds good! Thanks for the rec!
Circle the wagons pilgrim.
Yee haw!
Read two Westerns over the weekend. I'd intended to read some horror, but the novel I picked was dull, so I went back to my giant pile of Westerns. (This is definitely an ongoing habit lately -- Westerns are distracting me from everything else).
So, I read The Valley of Violent Men by Lewis B. Patten. Lewis B. Patten is a *GOD* when it comes to Westerns, he's probably the best when it comes to action. Elmer Kelton's best overall, from a literary standpoint, but his books aren't always action-focused. Anyway, Valley of Violent Men definitely lived up to its name -- a guy gets in the middle of a fight over water rights and the entire town turns into an angry mob trying to kill him. The guy gets in more vicious brawls... as soon as he's halfway healed from one, he gets jumped again, so he's basically walking hamburger. But that doesn't stop him... Hardboiled and tough as it gets!
Then I read On The Trail Of Four by Max Brand. Brand is great but he can really be odd. An outlaw finds a dying miner and decides to solve the miner's murder for... basically no reason, he just doesn't like murderers (even though he's an outlaw with a $15,000 price on his head). He ends up hired by a gunrunner to bodyguard his son in law... who's the guy who killed the miner. LOADS of melodrama, but some good action in there, too, and a weird first-person hero. For instance, he punches a guy who's trying to kill him and caves his ribs in... then spends weeks trying to nurse the guy back to health. The guy with the bashed ribs eventually returns his kindness by stealing his horse and leaving him stranded in the mountains. When he meets up with the guy again... he does him another favor. Pretty crazy... but, Max Brand liked to throw in quirky things. The prose is really great.
I've read High Lonesome. It's good, you're not in bad hands there. :)
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Didn't you know about the no Stephen King rule during June (JotR) ? I've spoken to the committee and had that verified - hard and fast. 🤠🤠
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