I’ve been cleaning out books. If I don’t we have to build on to the house. Or I thought about crafting cards, organizing the books by the Dewey Decimal System, and checking them out to the public. But our town has a library. So, there is a pile ready to go to the Hospice group who has book sales twice a year and I’ll donate them there. I might attend the sale in October and see what other treasures I can find.

But in the clean out, I have borrowed another book from a friend. Like most writers I’m an avid reader and lately I’ve been reading—or maybe consuming—This Tender Land Amazon.com : this tender land william kent krueger by William Kent Krueger William Kent Krueger – Wikipedia. Many of his books are mysteries with Cork O’Connor as the main character. They are set in the Minnesota area and involved camping, rivers, and living off the land as our ancestors did.

This Tender Land is a “Tom Sawyer” type of saga about two brothers and a couple of friends who escape an abusive orphanage in the 1930’s and float the rivers down from Minneapolis to St. Louis. They have many adventures along the way. I haven’t finished it yet, so I won’t spoil it for you, but it has won many awards.

Krueger lives in the Minneapolis area and writes about the people who live there weaving the Native American culture in to all his books. He was greatly influenced by Hemingway and like him his writing is clean and precise.

I don’t normally review books on my blog but this one stays with me. I find it on my mind as I go through my day. Pick up a copy and see what Krueger has to say. I find reading the greats influences my writing and I couldn’t find a better one to emulate than Krueger, but that is Another Story for another Time.

What are you reading/writing/creating this week?