Currently Reading Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics) By Ole Edvart Rolvaag see related

Oh, wow. Turns out I got behind on my reading journal again. Here's a bit of catch up....

For this month's book club, we read Giants in the Earth...there were a lot of ellipses...and almost as many exclamation marks...! I had a hard time with the ellipses and punctuation marks. They threw off my reading groove.

The book is about a group of Norwegian settlers who come to the Dakota Territory and attempt to make a life for themselves there. It centers around a woman who is profoundly unsuited for this life, and her husband who is profoundly invested in it. Simmering conflict ensues on the wife's side, although the husband remains, for most of the book blissfully ignorant that anything much is wrong because she's not much of a one to address problems outright.

I would do the book better justice, but I'm already up too late and I want to rush my way through a few more entries....

Favorite quote:

"When the quarrel had finally worn itself out they had found themselves at opposite ends of the earth, though lying side by side in the same bed."