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55_sallymander's review against another edition
5.0
Waltzing Montana by Mary Clearman Blew
Mildred Harrington is a horseback riding midwife in 1925 in rural Montana. She's returning home from a medical visit and comes across her old friend Pat Adams, lying injured, off the side of the road. She barely gets him onto her horse and carefully gets him back to her place. Her friend Renny, who lives at her farm, helps her to get Pat off the horse and into a wagon, so she can splint his broken limb and haul him to the Sister's Mission so he can be tended by a medical doctor. Pat tells her and the Sister's an excuse as to how he became injured, that doesn't add up to the injuries that he has suffered.
Pat eventually tells everyone how he came to be injured. It has something to do with his own father.
Mildred and Pat have a long history together. They've lived near each other, for most of their lives, they've loved each other for most of that time.
I enjoyed the book, it is well written and easy to read.
I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley with no obligation to post a review.
Mildred Harrington is a horseback riding midwife in 1925 in rural Montana. She's returning home from a medical visit and comes across her old friend Pat Adams, lying injured, off the side of the road. She barely gets him onto her horse and carefully gets him back to her place. Her friend Renny, who lives at her farm, helps her to get Pat off the horse and into a wagon, so she can splint his broken limb and haul him to the Sister's Mission so he can be tended by a medical doctor. Pat tells her and the Sister's an excuse as to how he became injured, that doesn't add up to the injuries that he has suffered.
Pat eventually tells everyone how he came to be injured. It has something to do with his own father.
Mildred and Pat have a long history together. They've lived near each other, for most of their lives, they've loved each other for most of that time.
I enjoyed the book, it is well written and easy to read.
I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley with no obligation to post a review.
bugsmell's review against another edition
4.0
The interesting parts made up for the really boring parts… god damn them plains people are tough
abookishtype's review against another edition
4.0
Reading Waltzing Montana, by Mary Clearman Blew, felt like recovering from an injury. I realize that this is a strange way to describe a book, but it’s the closest I can come to explaining the good ache I felt while reading it. This is not a pan of the book, either. Reading this book felt good, even if parts of it were painful. Really, this book felt like the sometimes painful ache we feel when we’re healing because those painful parts are tempered by the hope that the characters will one day be well...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss, for review consideration.
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss, for review consideration.
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