It proved more challenging than I anticipated. I wanted to share notes on a recent (defined by me as printed in the last 12 months so the ink may not yet be dry?) West Virginia-ish book. Ritchie County man living in Weston, Lewis County and working in Milton, Cabell County Reply to my email please.įor this to be successful it requires us to share our passion and take this Step up, what do you say about your top six WV reads? You may change your mind and list later, but let me hear from you. Please contact me at share your list of favored top six WV books is a fun challenge for the next month. I welcome your comments, reading suggestions, and opinions. It is a celebration of voices – many and diverse. It is about finding affirmationsĪnd denials of who we are in these hills and mountains by looking at This is a chat, a blog, about loving to read.

Addendum & Errata (a voice given to eclectic and at times profound consideration about bookish stuff).

Mover Over Shakespeare: Poetry Spoken Here and.

Montaini Obscura: And This came from Our Hills (unexpected works new and old).

From A West Virginia Book Lover Bookcase (musings on writers and volumes of past and present interest).

Wet Ink, new imprints and discoveries within the West Virginia book world.

Dust Jacket, an essay, short or long and quite informal (this one!).

For a starting point six “chapters” or sections will appear in this blog. Not everything can be The Good Earth! To look at contemporary West Virginia literature and imprints, to glance back over the past decades and to reach into prior centuries all seem legitimate book journeys. While critical comments may come, the solid and real goal of this project is to create awareness of and to enjoy books. I wish to be like that.īecause of or, in spite of, an academic degree in “English” I do not aspire to literary analysis or challenging critical debate.

If the topic happened to be books related to the state, he became animated, and his high pitched voice broke with excitement.

When speaking about almost any West Virginia topic Comstock became red of cheek and spoke faster and faster. His passion for books was enviable and far reaching. Jim Comstock, of West Virginia Hillbilly newspaper fame and much more, was an inspiration. Beginning in the early 1970’s I chased them.

My journey began with county history books. Mountain State, including those little small printing runs of poems byĭreamers, idealists and retired school teachers. NativeĪuthors, works set in West Virginia, subject matter that is about our I have been passionate about West Virginia books for decades.

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