"You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out - have you learned that?" 'Shug' Akins learns the hard way, between the beatings delivered by his father Red and the pampering of his m...
End of the year book report time. While crowds of people pack themselves into Times Square a couple of miles due west from me I'll give some thoughts on this particular book.I expected to love this. After Karen's glowing review of Winter's Bone. Instead of being blown away by this book I was j...
A powerful coming of age story that dances between the bloody chaos of guerilla war and lively, resilient spirit of a young man with true grit. The scene is rural southern Missouri in the American Civil War, which experienced a terrible anarchy as a slave-holding state unable to commit as a stat...
20 jan 15, tuesday afternoon, 1:39 p.m. e.s.t.haven't read story one from jones, matthew f. this is the 1st. i'm certain that box top right readers also enjoyed with the scroll-work of covers brought me here. saw it. clicked on it. read a bit in the way of description, review. here i am. last sto...