His entry begins:I just finished reading Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell. It’s the story of sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly, who lives in the Ozark Mountains where her family has lived for generations in a closed and isolated group existing outside the fringes of the law.About Two Bits Four Bits:
Ree Dolly’s father is due to appear at a court hearing on charges of operating a crystal meth lab but he seems to have disappeared completely. Ree is the nearest thing to a responsible adult in the household and knows that if her father can’t be located in time the family will lose their home, which has been taken as collateral by a bail bondsman. The book documents her search for her father and the resistance she faces from secretive and violent family members who don’t want her to learn the truth about what happened to him. Along the way, we watch as Ree and her best friend, who is also a teenaged girl, struggle to find a way to keep the children they’re responsible for from becoming part of the meth-producing machinery that consumes the young men of the area.
Woodrell does...[read on]
Visit Mark Cotton's website.Buddy Griffin returns to his hometown of Elmore, Texas after retiring as a homicide detective with the Austin Texas Police Department. During a high school reunion weekend Buddy's high school sweetheart's banker husband is shot dead in the couple's swimming pool. Buddy becomes involved in the investigation and uncovers a missing bank teller, a safe deposit box full of dirty money and an extortion plot gone wrong.
Writers Read: Mark Cotton.
--Marshal Zeringue
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