The Sunday Post, Issue #5: Eye Infections, Book Reviews, and Weekend Reads Awaiting You

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Happy Sunday, Everyone!

I hope you're all enjoying the weekend! I've been dealing with a pretty annoying eye infection, but it hasn’t stopped me from diving into some reading.

This Past Week...

I shared my thoughts on Al Cody's The Outcasts and featured Ray Hogan's The Man Who Killed the Marshal for the Friday 56.

Coming Up Next Week…

Today, I’m starting Lone Wulff by William W. and J.A. Johnstone, which just came out. You can expect my review on Thursday. For the Friday 56, I’ll give you a sneak peek of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. Yeah, it’s a horror book, but it’s set in the American West, so I’ll chat about different Western subgenres on the blog when I come across interesting ones.

Bookmarked…

Once I’m done with Lone Wulff, I’ll jump right into The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, which I borrowed from the library on Thursday. I also picked up a nonfiction book, Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West by Tom Clavin, which I’ll review later in June.

New to the Bookshelf…

I found two paperbacks at a Humane Society thrift store: The Sachem and From Where the Sun Now Stands. The Sachem is from 1981 and is the fourth book in The Colonization of American Series by Donald Clayton Porter (that’s a pen name for Noel Bertram Gerson). The series started as the White Indian series but changed after the first book. From Where the Sun Now Stands by Will Henry, another pen name for Henry Wilson Allen, was originally published in 1960, and the version I found is a Leisure reprint from 2000.

Also, I got the latest batch of William W. Johnstone titles, including the reprint of Rage of Eagles, the first mass-market paperback of On the Royle Range, and Lone Wulff.

New on My Kindle...

Just added The Judas Tree by Matt Braun, Timber Tree by Cameron Judd, and The Kinkaids by Matt Braun to my Kindle. Happy reading, everyone!

⁓B.J. Burgess

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