This is one of 7 Sackett novels by LAmour or True Gritt and Lonesome. dove would also be similar reads.
Western The Daybreakers Lois L’Amour Bantam Publishers 197 pages Published 1960 Leather bound hardback
Friday, January 30, 2026
The Daybreakers by Louis L’Amour
Louis L'Amour is arguably my husbands favorite author. When I was
prompted to read a western for class...it was a no brain-er that it
would be one of his. Now this was on the shorter side of his collection,
and while I initially had a hard time getting into the rhythm of his
writing, eventually I was flying through it. The book is written from
the point of view of Tyrel, one of the middle Sackett brothers. It was
written as though he was talking to you, so it had a log of colloquial
language that was initially hard to get the flow of. Time on the western
frontier happens a little differently and that really came through in
the writing. For example, the brothers were going down to capture and
return with wild cattle to sell. At the end of that chapter, three years
had elapsed.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros
This novel follows two split timelines, one in present day where Georgia is having to find herself again after a public divorce and her grandmother's death and the other during WWII where her grandmother, Scarlett's, epic love story takes place. The parallels between these creative females and their bond through books and life was moving to read. In present day, Georgia is forced into having her grandmother’s last novel finished by a very handsome writer and the shift to the past tells us about the novel from the POV of her grandparents meeting and falling in love. The story is moving, real and hits you in all the feels.
Matierals Log for INFO 5410
Hello Friends! We are back at it with more bookish thoughts! This semester I'm taking INFO 5410- Adult Materials and Reading Interests. As part of this course, we have 30 prompts to read/watch/listen to. This will be a running list that will link you to the blog posts for each of the prompts. Come along for the ride!
Genres / Formats / Characteristics
Read/listen/watch one item from each of the following:
1. Genre - Literary Fiction: The Great Gatsby
2. Genre - Realistic/Contemporary Fiction (includes Adrenaline & Relationship): Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros
3. Genre - Historical Fiction: America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
4. Genre - Western: The Daybreakers by Louis L'Amour
5. Genre - Romance: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
6. Genre - Mystery:
7. Genre - Psychological Suspense:The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
8. Genre - Horror:Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
9. Genre - Fantasy: The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
10. Genre - Science Fiction:
11. Genre - Science, Math, and/or Nature: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking
12. Genre - True Crime: Zodiac
13. Genre - Travel: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
14. Genre - True Adventure:Wild: From lost to found on the pacific crest trail by Cheryl Strayed
15. Genre - History: The Boys on the Boat
16. Genre - Memoir: The Happiest Man on Earth: the Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
17. Genre - Biography: A beautiful mind
18. Genre - Cooking or Food: Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, and Unlikely Family and the American Dream by Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning and Lyn Nguyen
19. Genre - Instructional (i.e., learn a skill): Taylor Swift Crochet
20. Genre - Reference (e.g., encyclopedia, lists, etc.): Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
21. Characteristic - Originally written and published in a non-English language-dominant
country (i.e., international book translated into English):My friends
22. Characteristic - Published before 1970: animal farm
23. Characteristic - Published after 2000: rooster bar
24. Characteristic - Written by an author with and featuring a main character from an
underrepresented identity (i.e., LGBTQ, female, disabled, or a person of color):The Bones Beneath My Skin
25. Format - Graphic Novel: Batman
26. Format - E-Book:
27. Format - Audiobook: The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison
28. Format - Podcast (1 item only; 2 episodes minimum): Dorky, Geeky, Nerdy Trivia Podcast by Brian Rollins
29. Format - Television Series (1 item only; 2 episodes minimum):
30. Format - Movie (1 item only):
Extra Credit Formats
• Collection of Essays or Short Stories (1 item only):
• Poetry Collection (1 item only):
• YouTube Series (1 item only; 2 videos minimum): Critical Role
• Video Game (rated teen or mature; 1 item only):Borderlands
• App for Leisure/Fun (1 item only):
• App for Tasks or Information (1 item only):
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Critical Role by Matt Mercer
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