Alas, another year has drawn to a close and, once again, I bit off more than I could chew. Maybe there's still time for a morsel - a tiny taste of the review books stacked on my desk. They've come to me by hook or by crook, by pony express and snail mail, but I must still beg forgiveness from the authors and publishers who sent them. Here below is a mere mention to whet the reader's whistle (I'm using up what's left of my annual quotient of cliches). Let the sampling of this truly eclectic stack begin with titles, authors, and an occasional aside... 

Dollybird by Anne Lazurko. I sat next to Anne at last year's Women Writing the West Award Ceremony. She'd come from Canada to accept the Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction, and couldn't quit smiling. She was, is, a northern delight.

Ten Shoes Up by Gary L. Stuart. I met Gary at my Literature & Landscape of the Horse Retreat in 2014. Gary, well published in the arena of law, teaches writing at ASU. I have to confess, I haven't even had time to crack the cover on Gary's first novel in The Angus Series, though we rode horseback for five days in Wyoming and talked about the series. Below is a photo of Gary with the wild horses at the Deerwood Ranch Wild Horse EcoSanctuary during our 2014 retreat in Wyoming.