14 - eventide

here's another author i could read and read and read. i think i only have one more of his books to dig into, though, so hopefully he writes some more . . .

i'm at a loss in how to describe why i love haruf's books so much. his writing is completely different than anything else i read. i think part of my attraction to his stories is the connection i feel to where they are set. holt, colorado is so similar to the kansas town that my family is from. (there's even a duckwall's!) so it's easy for me to picture everything in my head. i'm not going to lie eventide is a pretty heavy book. haruf packs a lot of drama into books that don't look like they have much to them. but in the midst of all of that drama, you really get to see genuine compassion haruf has for his characters'.


that's weak, yall. i'm sorry. maybe i'll come back and write more on this one at another time because i really really really really loved this book.