Friday Reads: Rogue June on the Range TBR
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- Hello Booktube! Happy Friday! I am participating in my own rogue version of June on the Range, but I doubt anyone will mind. What do you think? What books should I read for June on the Range? What summer events are you participating in? What are you reading for those events? Let me know in the Comments section! As always, if you don't feel comfortable leaving a comment, you can leave an emoji or give this video a thumbs up as a way of saying hello! It does help my channel, and I appreciate it.
@michaelk.vaughan8617Announcement video for the June on the Range:
• June on the Range 2024...
Books mentioned:
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
Mother Angelica’s Private and Pithy Lessons From the Scriptures
The Meadow by Jim Galvin
Fencing the Sky by Jim Galvin
Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen
Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
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Oops! I totally forgot to do my May shoutouts! I will catch up on those next Friday. I promise.
I absolutely loved Fox & I! Enjoy
Thank you! I am still not very far in, but maybe this weekend? Thanks so much for watching and commenting! 💛
I loved Mother Angelica. I used to watch her show all the time. She was so funny.
She’s very spunky in this book! Thanks for watching and commenting! 💛
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Hi Kelly, I'm also going rogue on the range. 😅. I am going to read Western poetry and will be sharing Chicano/Mexican American/Mexican/Indigenous perspectives during my conversations about literature set in the North American West.
Absolutely brilliant idea! Maybe we should have Rogue on the Range next year! Poetry would be an excellent
inclusion! 🤠
@@booksimnotreading lol...I'm in! 🙃😉
Hi Kelly! Oh Blue so cute 🥰. I finished Maggie Now and really liked it. Now I am reading Homecoming by Kate Morton for Big book summer organised by Sue Jackson. If I have time I will read the first book in Lonesome dove series. Hope you have a great weekend and happy reading 💛🤠
I am glad you enjoyed Maggie Now and it’s very cool you are participating in the Big Book challenge! Happy reading! 🤠
Nothing wrong with going rogue. The Meadow sounds interesting. I'm reading The Virginian at the moment. Intend to spend June reading Historical Western Romances and True Grit. 🌸🤠🌸
The Meadow is AMAZING! I’d love to hear what you think of True Grit. I have heard a lot of positive things about it. Happy reading! 🤠
I am 100% with you on June on the Range adjacent! I think most of the books I read for June on the Range would probably NOT being considered a western by most, but they work for me!
I just wish the definition could be expanded a bit! Maybe more people would participate? Am I crazy for thinking this? Either way I can't seem to get through any book right now. It's taking me an hour to read 10 pages of Fox and I. So frustrating!
I am from Western Wyoming I grew up on a cattle ranch I loved the lifestyle when I was a kid but I will leave all the cowboy boots and hats to the men. I really don’t read very many western novels just the usual ones. Love that your from Wyoming 🩵
I love that you grew up in Wyoming! You are much more a cowgirl than I am! Thanks so much for commenting! I hope you’ll stick around! 💛🤠
I never hear of “June on the range” but I do have a western in my TBR pile so maybe I’ll food it! I love Lonesome Dove!
Yes, June on the Range is a celebration of the Western … I’m just expanding the definition a bit for my own purposes. 😃 What Western is on your TBR? 🤠
@@booksimnotreading "The Way West" by A.B. Guthrie. I live in NYC but vacationing in Nevada, Arizona and Utah...in late June/early July...maybe a book with that region as the setting would be fun too...
@@larajean1 I’ve read it, but sadly can’t remember it. I think that would be an excellent place to read it!
I like the idea of a rogue June on the Range, although I like to think with all readathons that they are open to interpretation 😉 I only plan on participating in Women in Translation in August but am also reading The Magic Mountain with Classics and Company over July and August
Well, God knows I hardly ever follow the prompts for any readathon except maybe March of the Mammoths! 🤠💛
Dear Radical Rogue Rebel in the Cowgirl shirt with the Wild Cat,
I would look forward to you hollering back on any Louise Erdrich you might be able to wrangle this month. I’ve been cruising with The Red Convertible short stories for a spell now… just finished reading “Best Western” - like walking down a country road with a pebble in your boot. 🤠
You never know what will happen! 🤠
Hey Kelly, Lots of compelling reads for this theme. I actually had a pair of tan cowboy boots gifted to me in HS. Would wear them occasionally and with light gray acid-wash jeans and an oversized white Batman t-shirt. Was I stylin' lemme tell ya. 🙃 Aww...his Blue-ness! 😻By the way, my friend Ingrid just did the Library Tag. Her username is Radishraven. 🙂 Lovely weekend your way. -Carm & Rocky
I can totally see you in cowboy boots, Carm! Frankly, your urban surroundings confound me a bit. You seem more a part of wide, open spaces than a city slicker. Very cool your friend did the library tag! Have a great weekend! 🤠
For me, great descriptions of the western setting make a great western. Ivan Doig wrote beautifully about Montana, Willa Cather about the great plains and southwest. Jack London wrote about wild Alaska, and John Steinbeck's setting was central California. For a real cowboy western, nothing beats Lonesome Dove.
I so agree with you! I was going to mention Cather and Steinbeck in my video, but my first attempt was 26 minutes long, which was a little much I thought. I’m so glad you brought them up here. Thanks for watching and commenting! 🤠
Hi Kelly, I'm still trying to decide what I'll be reading for June on the Range, besides Shane my introduction to westerns as a young reader, the setting is in Wyoming. My library has a loads of Louis L'Amour so most likely a louis l'amour as well, also something from the Chronicles of Lonesome Dove will probably round out my June TBR. 🤠 go well.
Well, let me know if you have any recommendations for me! 🤠 Be well, friend. 💛
I love your book choices! I love nature nonfiction so those sound right up my alley.
I plan to read English Creek which is set in Montana in the 1930s and I know that isn't a "western" but it's as close as I'll get. I am also listening to an audiobook set in Colorado in 1918, so that is close as well. I haven't read L'Amour or Grey either and I'm just not interested. Maybe that's unfair since they may be really good. Oh well.
I am counting the two books set in the West for the historical fiction readathon this month. I also plan to read The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker which counts as well and it counts for Pride month. That is all of my concrete plans, but I'll read more books.
Thanks for sharing with me Laurie! Ivan Doig would count as a Western in MY book. Happy reading! 🤠💛
I grew up olin Nevada so I can sort of relate to your Wyoming experience, I don't know if I mentioned it already. I've always loved westerns. I usually think of the pulp westerns as "category" westerns, the Louis Lamour type books than are often slender and the pprbacks usually say "Western" on the side. I'm reading some of those for the event, but also planning to read "O Pioneers" by Willa Cather and maybe also "My Antonia" by her. So I like your TBR.
I love Lonesome Dove, often want to reread it, but I'm afraid I might not like it as much!
I didn’t know you grew up in Nevada! I love that you’re going to read Willa Cather along with more traditional Westerns! Happy reading! 🤠
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Lonesome Dove and True Grit are my favourites. I've got some Louis L'Amour as I really enjoyed the first one I read last year, I also have Shane. In the UK we have a bowler hat on instead.
Well, I hope to hear what you think of more Louis L’Amour and Shane! You should read The Virginian, which was written in Wyoming and is by Owen Wister. Some people consider it the first Western and it’s excellent. Thanks for chiming in! 🤠
@@booksimnotreading I've got it from the library!
@@AaronReadABook All the more reason to read it! 😃
If I can find a Wallace Stegner book I haven’t read, I’ll read that in June.
Excellent choice! 🤠
This is the first I heard of June on the Range. Not planning on participating. You did pique my interest in western novels though. I am going to look into them. The only Summer event I am currently participating in is Book Trek 2024 Star Trek Summer Readathon.
I hope you have a great weekend
Hi Stuart! Yes, June on the Range is the celebration of the Western! That's great you are participating in Book Trek, and I hope you really enjoy it! Happy reading!
@@booksimnotreading Thanks Kelly
Hi Kelly. I don't think I realized that you were in Wyoming. Wow! Very cool. I am participating for the first time in June on the Range. I am going to read a Louis L'Amour and a Zane Grey as I have never read either one. Like you, I'm going to go a little rogue too by reading a couple of contemporary novels by women who are writing about the west. This is an area about which I know next to nothing. I have read a lot of Louise Erdrich, and I love that you are including her. She is one of my favorite novelists. I'm going to be reading Ulysses in June and July with the group that is reading that. That will be a re-read for me, but it's been a long, long time. And I'm going to do Book Trek 24 and Rocket Summer too. All good fun. Hope you're doing well. Have a great weekend, Kelly.
Thanks Pat! Let me know what you think of Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey. So cool that you are a Louise Erdrich fan. Did you make a video with your TBR for June on the Range? Or tell me what other books you are reading. I’d be curious to know! Thanks so much for watching and commenting! 🤠
@@booksimnotreading I did do a video about all of my prospective June reads and events last week, but I didn’t know what westerns I’d be reading then beyond Zane Grey and Louis L’Amour. Another booktuber recommended one book to me that sounded good, and then that reminded me of another book that’s been on my radar for a while. Tristan at Tristan-L-Space-Books recommended Pity the Beast by Robin McClean. He said she wrote it as a “feminist western.” Then that reminded me that I’ve had Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens on my radar. It’s described as “a thrilling, raucous, and gloriously queer debut about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck in the American West-and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way.” It sounds fun, and it will be another book for Pride Month too. I know so little about Zane Grey that I picked my book of his because the title, Riders of the Purple Sage, reminded me of a band I followed in the 70’s, a Grateful Dead offshoot, The New Riders of the Purple Sage! 😂
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Well, I hope to hear what you think of those books and then I can decide whether or not to read them! 💛
@@booksimnotreading hopefully, I'll get to all of the books on my radar and will report back. I'm always very optimistic at the beginning of the month, and then life happens! On the whole, though, it should all be fun. 🙂
I'm not reading Zane Grey this year, but I have a stack of about 20 Louis Lamour books that a friend sent me. I don't know how many of those I'll get to, as I'm planning to make Streets of Laredo my main June on the Range read this year. I'm looking forward to your review of Night Watch. I'm curious if you have the same opinion of it that I have. Your Friday morning videos have become a favorite part of my routine around here.
Oh Randy! You’re so kind! I can’t believe you read Night Watch. Why?? If you have any Westerns to recommend to me, I will gladly take them. Hope you are feeling OK. 💛💛💛🤠
@booksimnotreading You know, I really enjoyed The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie. It's definitely an alternative choice for a western.
And I read Night Watch because it won the Pulitzer!
Hi Kelly! Have you ever read the My Friend Flicka trilogy by Mary O’Hara? I loved them as a child and have reread many times. They might be my favorite western. Also I loved the Little Britches series by Ralph Moody. I might do a video on all the western stuff I love as an ignorant Easterner! Lol.
I would definitely watch that video! I know I haven’t read Little Britches, but we sure sold a lot of copies of it at the bookstore. I have read so many horse stories I can’t keep them straight! Happy reading! 🤠
I loved reading Fox And I. I look back on that reading experience with fondness.
I hope the same is true for me! 💛
I'm going to read Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey. Maybe Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy but not sure I'll get to it because I've got a couple big books to get through.
You’re going to read Blood Meridian??? Have you read a lot of Cormac McCarthy??? My mind is blown right now. I haven’t read it, but my understanding is that it’s very violent. Tell me what you think of Riders of the Purple Sage! 🤠
@@booksimnotreading I've read all of his books except that one and 1 screenplay I think.
Yeah it depends on what type of violence (I skip over s*xual violence.) I can usually handle most other depending, but I'm prepared to skip a few lines/paragraphs if it gets too descriptive.
Edit: I haven't read one other by him, Child of God, because of too much S violence. I definitely won't be reading that one.
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD Thanks for telling me!
I have never read a western of any kind. I have seen some western films though, and things like Tombstone, Unforgiven, and Pale Rider come to mind as favorites. I think the only country music I ever liked was Johnny Cash.
Hi Montie! Those are some great films! I’ve seen a fair amount of Western films, but none has motivated me to buy a cowboy hat or cowboy boots. I can’t have helped but hear some more country music, but that’s just because of where I live! Thanks for commenting, and have a great weekend! 🤠
@@booksimnotreading Turns out I am wrong. I have a western Choose Your Own Adventure book called Deadwood City.
Hi Kelly, Happy Friday! I will sit out June on the Range but I wish you the best with your going rogue :D (by the way, where do all these monthly themed-reads come from? Is there a master list somewhere? :D Before I discovered your channel a few months ago, I didn't even know the term 'Booktube' haha). I don't know that I've ever read an archetypal Western book a la Louis L'Amour or Zane Grey. I've read "Blood Meridian" and (one of my favorites) "The Ox-Bow Incident" but don't know if these 'count' as Westerns proper? If I did June on the Range, I'd probably choose Thomas McGuane's "Gallatin Canyon." I am on more familiar footing with Western movies ("The Wild Bunch" and "Once Upon a Time in the West" are two of my all-time favorite films). Five years ago, I camped out in Alabama Hills (a place in the Eastern Sierras where a lot of old Westerns and "The Lone Ranger" t.v. show were filmed) and also went to the "Museum of Western Film History" in the nearest town, Lone Pine, CA. Not an expert on the genre though. Have a great weekend! Best, Joe
P.S. I have added "The Meadow" to my TBR on Goodreads...thanks for the rec!
Hi Joe! There are SO many events on Booktube that different or multiple Booktube channels host. Coming soon will be Jane Austen July, September is Shaketube (a Shakespeare celebration that I co-host), October is Victober, a celebration of Victorian literature … that is the tip of the iceberg. No master list because they are continually changing. Depending on what you love to read, there will be many things you can join in over the course of the year. It can be really fun! Thanks for sharing your experience with Westerns and Western films! 🤠
@@booksimnotreading Thanks for the insight on the month themes! Maybe I will do Jane Austen July, as (much like "Hard Times" was) "Northanger Abbey" is sitting just in the next room (and again, it's a short read). I will also look forward to Shaketube if you are co-hosting it...
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