Cool Water
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Christmas gift. Currently reading.
Okay so what is it about books set in Saskatchewan? I am not a prairie girl. I was born on Lake of the Woods. Pine, granite, steep hills and fishy lake water are in my blood and they never fail to call me home when I read of them. Yet lately I've found a sort of second home in these Saskatchewan books.
In addition to this book, which I loved, I've also particularly enjoyed Dry by Barbara Sapergia; The Last Cowboy by Lee Gowan; and Beatrice by Monica Kidd. Although different books, they all remind me of each other. In all of them there is a sense of longing for things to remain as they were or are; a desire to remain "country" and a reluctance to become "big city" and move with the fast-changing times. In all of them there is a definite sense of place, and when I say sense, I really mean that. You can almost see, hear and feel the prairie. In Beatrice, for example, I remember the underlying "clickety-clack" of the train. Whereas in Cool Water I can almost hear the lazy clip clop of horses on the trail and singing cowboy refrains, "Cool, clear water" and "tumbling tumbleweeds."
While I am not a prairie girl, I am a small town girl and so I quite recognized and delighted in the small town life of Cool Water's Juliet. I loved the way the author introduced us to all the residents and kept us informed as to what was going on in their lives. After all everybody knows everybody and everybody's business in a small town. While the book is a novel, it is also a series of stories about the characters and their families, stories that touch each other and intertwine as the folks go about their business and interact. I particularly liked the restaurant scenes where people (town folk and visitors alike) come and go and cross paths. I could quite imagine myself sitting at a table, looking out the window and having some pie, all the while catching up on my neighbours' business.
While there are a lot of characters, the author made them all easy to know and, in her gentle and sometimes humourous way, made them dear.
In addition to this book, which I loved, I've also particularly enjoyed Dry by Barbara Sapergia; The Last Cowboy by Lee Gowan; and Beatrice by Monica Kidd. Although different books, they all remind me of each other. In all of them there is a sense of longing for things to remain as they were or are; a desire to remain "country" and a reluctance to become "big city" and move with the fast-changing times. In all of them there is a definite sense of place, and when I say sense, I really mean that. You can almost see, hear and feel the prairie. In Beatrice, for example, I remember the underlying "clickety-clack" of the train. Whereas in Cool Water I can almost hear the lazy clip clop of horses on the trail and singing cowboy refrains, "Cool, clear water" and "tumbling tumbleweeds."
While I am not a prairie girl, I am a small town girl and so I quite recognized and delighted in the small town life of Cool Water's Juliet. I loved the way the author introduced us to all the residents and kept us informed as to what was going on in their lives. After all everybody knows everybody and everybody's business in a small town. While the book is a novel, it is also a series of stories about the characters and their families, stories that touch each other and intertwine as the folks go about their business and interact. I particularly liked the restaurant scenes where people (town folk and visitors alike) come and go and cross paths. I could quite imagine myself sitting at a table, looking out the window and having some pie, all the while catching up on my neighbours' business.
While there are a lot of characters, the author made them all easy to know and, in her gentle and sometimes humourous way, made them dear.
Journal Entry 3 by Pooker3 at The Forks - see release note for details in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Saturday, September 3, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (9/3/2011 UTC) at The Forks - see release note for details in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
At the Thin Air used book sale. A little reverse shoplifting. Heheheh! Sneaked it onto the fiction table. You'll have to pay $5 to get it out of hock, but to a great cause! Enjoy!
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Welcome to the wonderful and wacky world of BookCrossing! Here you'll find a unique and worldwide community of book lovers sharing their books. This book is now yours! Read it, enjoy it. Keep it or pass it on to someone you know or even release it back into the wild as I did. If you make a journal entry (either anonymously or as a BookCrossing member) all previous readers of this book will be notified by e-mail and can follow this book on its travels. BookCrossing is free to join, completely confidential (you are known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your email address) and it's a whole lot of fun!
