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A Publisher’s Year: Keeping deWitt about them

Last month, a delegation from the Association of Canadian Publishers descended on Ottawa, a trip that has been taking place every November for the better part of a decade. Among those joining executiv… more →

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D-Tales: June (The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt)

bloodyunderrated wrote 17 hours ago: Sisters is an odd last name for a pair of brothers, but then again The Sisters Brothers were quite o … more →

Tags: book, Book Review, D-tales, Danielle, Monthly, the sisters brothers

Top Ten Books on my Summer TBR list — 11 comments

Ciara_H wrote 22 hours ago: This week’s feature, hosted by the Broke and the Bookish, is Top Ten Books on my Summer TBR li … more →

Tags: Top Ten Tuesday, alice walker, Books, Christopher Isherwood, Ernest Hemingway, f. scott fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jack Kerouac, John Green

Slow the pace

kylepatrickwriting wrote 5 days ago: I’ve noticed lately that–well, instead of saying ‘people’ I’m just goi … more →

Tags: writing, Stephen King, the stand, second draft, sisters brothers

Book Review: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

Julie Christine wrote 1 week ago: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt My rating: 3 of 5 stars Poor Eli Sisters, forced to muddle th … more →

Tags: writing, Book Reviews, Fiction, Prose and Poetry, Man Booker Prize, sisters brothers, Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Unforgiven

52 Books in 2013 Challenge: May Update

dtsft wrote 2 weeks ago: I fared a little better this month with the reading challenge, although I’m not quite on track … more →

Tags: Books, 52 Books in 2013, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, Ernest Hemingway, Goldie Hawn, hhhh, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor, Laurent Binet

Sibling Riflery

Brian wrote 3 weeks ago: I am of two minds about Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, which is fitting, because the Sisters … more →

Tags: deadwood, Ishmael Reed, the border trilogy, the sisters brothers, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

'The Sisters Brothers' by Patrick DeWitt — 1 comment

Lauren wrote 1 month ago: I had to look twice at the cover art of this novel – for the longest time I only saw two men, … more →

Tags: Literature, Novel, humour, Historical Fiction, Books, Reading, Humor, tragedy, the sisters brothers

Terri

Franz Patrick wrote 2 months ago: Terri (2011) ★★ / ★★★★ Terri’s life is in a state of transition. When Terri (Jacob Wysocki) is … more →

Tags: "Well, I'm certainly not going through life with one ha, Movies, John C Reilly, Azazel Jacobs, Review, Terri, Jacob Wysocki, Creed Bratton, Olivia Crocicchia

A Few Steps Closer

kevinsampsell wrote 2 months ago: Friends! An update on the novel. It’s coming out in November! I finished the copy edits recent … more →

Tags: alien boy, Amelia Gray, Bea, blurbs, copy edits, Davy Rothbart, Events, jess walter, Jillian Lauren

Ablutions at Bristol Old Vic Studio (Exeunt review)

bubbleandbooks wrote 2 months ago: In the fourth series of Mad Men, Don Draper descends into a soggy period of alcohol abuse and depres … more →

Tags: Articles, Bristol, bristol old vic, Bristol Old Vic Studio, Charles Bukowski, Don Draper, exeunt, Exeunt Magazine, fellswoop theatre

The Best Things I've Read This Week (Apr. 8 - Apr. 14)

andyseher wrote 2 months ago: 1.  The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt:  Michael Christie at National Post called it, “fre … more →

Tags: Reading, Zen Habits, Leo Babuta, Melissa McEwen, paleo diet problems, cracked writers, John Chees, quitting drinking, simple career advice

The Sisters Brothers

Manu Mayank wrote 2 months ago: “Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches ar … more →

Tags: Books, america, Reading, book, Novel, Humor, gold-rush, 1851

Ablutions - Patrick deWitt

Ben Barlow 85 wrote 2 months ago: I gave up on ‘Ablutions’ a few pages in to Part 2 of the book. Part 1 was great, I read it quickly o … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Review, ablutions

What I Read Last Week

cgjohnston wrote 2 months ago: The Sisters Brothers, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers … more →

Tags: Books, the sisters brothers, Gunslingers, Wild West, Gold

Review: The Sisters Brothers – Patrick DeWitt

Nicky wrote 2 months ago: Eli and Charlie Sisters have a job to do, but there’s 1000 miles of desert between them and their la … more →

Tags: Review 2, Reading 2, book, Reading, Book Review, the sisters brothers

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt — 1 comment

Nick Merrill wrote 2 months ago: Eli and Charlie Sisters are traveling hitmen. They work for the Commodore, a thinly characterized, e … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Literature, western, hitman, gold-rush

Van has finished reading...The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

vanisreading wrote 3 months ago: I read this book too quickly. It’s testament to its simple presentation that I got so completely suc … more →

Tags: Reading 2, "van demal", sisters brothers

The Sisters Brothers Book — 22 comments

grandmalin wrote 3 months ago: A couple of days ago I broke my kindle.  It didn’t have its protective cover on it, and it fel … more →

Tags: Books, books, books, Books, Literature, Book Review, Mark Twain, eli, Westerns, Oregon City, American Old West

Three Days of One-Day Books: The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt; The Good House, by Ann Leary; The Testament of Jesse Lamb, by Jane Rogers

Jennifer wrote 3 months ago: It’s like… the Coen Brothers do Huckleberry Finn, or “Treasure of the Sierra Madre … more →

Tags: 2013, Ann Leary, Coen Brothers, dystopian future, Genres, Jane Rogers, Science Fiction, The Good House, the sisters brothers


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