This has almost no citations. Maybe that flew back in the 50s but any person could make bunch of broad generalizations and spin them into a book. There are enough rattled off ideas that this becomes a sort cherry pick a quote for your needs. I think no book of this kind had been written at the time of publication, hence its enduring popularity. I’d like to revisit the topic with better scholarship.

I read the Great Plains trilogy out of order, having finished My Antonia last year not even realizing it was part of a larger work. This is the first volume.

This is a really beautiful, sad book about life on the Nebraska prairie at the turn of the 20th century. The characterization is well devleoped and it's so succinct. I have read so, so many overly long books that it's a pleasure to read something where nothing written seemed superfluous.

I will say that is has a fairly puritanical moral compass, so if that's not something you jive with, the ending of this book might give you pause. However, I think it's very in keeping with the attitudes of when this was written.

This is one of the best books about sports I’ve ever read. Of course, it’s about far more than sports. The justifications we make for them. The toxicity of fans. It’s a dark book in many ways. But it’s very worth reading.

Very accessible biography of the political life of James Madison. I felt like I got a good sense of Madison's contributions to the Federalist papers (interesting to see the contrast with Chernow's Hamilton), his feelings on the Jefferson embargo, and of course, how the war of 1812 was handled.

This book is an emotional roller coaster. Horrifically, it’s inspired by a real court case.

It’s difficult to judge classics because so many other books have been based on their concepts. So this seemed pretty perfunctory but I can appreciate just ingenious it must have been in the late 19th century.

This is a really great documentary style read about a fictional late 70s rock band. It felt very Fleetwood Mac / Little Feat + Linda Ronstadt. I’m sure I’m far from the first person to make those comparisons. The world the author builds is very convincing. I had some minor quibbles with some of the characterizations, but overall, it was really engrossing, couldn’t put it down. Hope the show does it justice. 4.5

What a great read. I didn't realize how allegorical this was until I was about half-way through.

Couldn't put it down.

I must be reading something different. Entirely too long, wants for editing. It was tedious as hell and I was seemingly never in the right frame of mind to read it even after sitting down expressly to read. So disappointing because I wanted to love it. I’ll try her short fiction at some point.

Very good horror comic. Gruesome, like the backstory that's being filled in. Will definitely continue reading. I think this has been optioned for TV!