O You Pretty Pioneers

Ok so I have a confession to make. I have not read the last two book club books. By the time I was able to get The Children's Hospital from MCPL I didn't have time to read it. And there are like 5 holds on The White Tiger. So instead, I grabbed one of the few books of mine that is not yet in a box and I hadn't read before. It was O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.

And let me tell you something, Willa Cather is a badass. That book is awesome. The prose is super tight and descriptive, like Steinbeck or Hemingway. But the scope of the narrative is also vast, like a big Russian novel. So when you combine the two, you get this sweeping panorama of frontier life without the plodding, drawn-out plot. It's awesome. I'm not going into too much detail because I'm the only one that read the thing, but suffice to say that I highly recommend it.

Now I have to go back and read My Antonia, which I hated in high school. I hated lots of stuff in high school that turned out to be cool, and I expect this to be one of the bigger ones.