The Longest Road

I really enjoyed the first twenty chapters of The Longest Road. The hardships of the dust bowl and the Great Depression were brought to life for me. I’d seen the Ken Burns series, and this was exactly what the people in Kansas and Oklahoma lived through. It seemed almost like Grapes of Wrath, one of......more

NGAB I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley, Jeanne Williams, and Open Road Integrated Media. Thank you for sharing your work with me. This was an excellent novel. I read a lot, and it has been a long time since I encountered a novel I hated to see end. Ms. Williams keeps her......more

I am a HUGE Patty Duke fan. I mean huge. I've met her several times and even my license plate says PDUKEFN. Knowing she narrated this was the only reason I got this from audible but I'm glad I did. I was first concerned that I would be distracted by Patty Duke's narration but it was a GREAT story! I......more

Not for me this one. The premise is potentially engaging – two young children making their way in Dust Bowl America – but the writing just wasn’t up to it. It’s a nice enough story, I suppose, if with some rather improbable plot twists, but the author is far too fond of letting her characters explai......more