What are you reading this week of February 21, 2016?

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11. Finished reading T. C. Boyle's book, The Harder They Come. Things got very exciting

towards the end and I stayed up late to finish it. Not my favorite of Boyle's works, but a good, well-crafted plot.

I've been yearning for something with a western flair and came across Thomas Savage's book, The Power of the Dog on e-book and downloaded it from the library. Boy-oh-boy, it is just what I was looking for! Here is a snip from Publisher's Weekly via amazon.

First published in 1967 to critical raves, Thomas Savage's The Power of the Dog now includes an afterword by Annie Proulx. It traces the tense relationship between two bachelor brothers, Phil and George Burbank, on a Montana ranch in the 1920s. When George marries a widow, Phil, a bullying, repressed homosexual, terrorizes his new sister-in-law. And when her teenage son comes to the ranch, things get even more complicated. This is just the first reissue of a long-out-of-print book by Savage, hailed as a true master of the western genre. I Heard My Sister Speak My Name is scheduled for this fall, retitled The Sheep Queen.

Thank you for the thread, hermetic, and I hope everyone has a great week. Happy reading!