Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg
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Book Reviews of Where Rivers Change Direction
Book Review: I loved this book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Having never heard of Mark Spragg, I bought this book because it was the winner of the 1999 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. I can hardly wait for him to write more! The beauty of this book is how the author relates events of his life, particularly his boyhood, with such matter-of-fact innocence and honesty. I marvel at how candid he is with his thoughts and feelings. Wyoming comes alive because of the vivid pictures he paints with his words. I feel thankful that I found this gem of a book! This book also has a recommendation by Teresa Jordan, author of Riding the White Horse Home, another of my favorite books.
Book Review: You'll feel like you live on a ranch!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was extremely well written. I have always lived in big cities, but thanks to the wonderful writing by Spragg, this book made me feel like I grew up on a ranch in a small town out west! The book takes a serious of seemingly independent short stories and weaves together a picture of one boy - one man's - growth from a child to a man. It makes us grow with him, feel pain and joy with him, experience life with him. By the end you feel an intricate part of this boy's life, and you long to know more about him. We follow him as he grows up, does his chores, and learns about life.Read this book- you won't regret it.
Book Review: Where Rivers Change Direction
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book, not just because I am familiar with the author, his brother and the area they grew up, but because it was so well written. I loved each different story and how he tied them all together. It made me laugh and cry. I was alittle ashamed because I thought I knew them but had no idea of how they really lived. This was a book I couldn't put down, Mr. Spragg's description of Northwest Wyoming was so vivid, he brought me back home. The young man and the stories in this book are very real, I only wish my three sons could have experienced some of this life.Book Review: You can almost physically feel the words of this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book totally amazing. When I'm forced by my daily routine to put it down, I can't put it out of my mind. Phrases such as "I didn't want to die, but death seemed less than a lifetime away," haunt me all day long. Spragg has an amazing ability to make the places and experiences, especially of his childhood, hyper-real in my mind. I can feel the cold river water, the stale-adrenalin fear, the deep emotional aches that he writes about. A wonderful book for anyone who relishes life.Book Review: insight into a harsh world
Summary: 5 Stars
A riveting collection of essays about the harsh and beautiful world of growing up isolated on a dude ranch in Northern Wyoming in the 60's. And the sad consequences of a sensitive boy being forced to "be a man" by an intransigent father. Striking is how good the boy was at his assigned tasks, but that the lifestyle just didn't take. So he wanders about, lost between two worlds, not knowing what happened to him. Spragg can write!