Winter's Bone

Sometimes the language was too “purty” for the landscape. Worth a read.

Fast read, engaging story. Great example of writing with regional dialect; it seems absolutely authentic. From a writer's point of view I was struck at the lesson this book provides for plot–the story is very simple, but the author keeps raising the stakes for the characters. No wonder it made a good movie.

What a pointless blob of words. I wanted Ree to get the hell out of this life and be selfish -live for herself- and the fact that by the end of the book she didn't... I just

Bleh.