One Step Over the Border: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)If you don't pay close attention, you might just slide over some of the subtle witticisms that make this book stand out. The banter between two good friends is worthy of old western movies when the language and plots were still clean. Stephen Bly doesn't hit you over the head with theology either, but if you miss God in this book, you must have your eyes closed. I finished this book ten minutes ago, and wish I had another three or four chapters to go, because I just wasn't ready to leave these wonderful characters.

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Award-winning author Stephen Bly weaves the tale of a pair of contemporary cowboys on a quest across the West. As a boy in Wyoming, Hap Bowmanfell in love with a girl namedJuanita. Ever since, he's experiencednothing but failure and misfortune.Laramie Majors--quiet,reserved, and patient to a fault--hasn't left Hap's side since theybecame rodeo partners right out ofcollege. Now, after spending mostof his adult life looking for Juanita,Hap wants to do one last bigsearch that will take them all overthe Southwest before he admits defeat.Together these two cowpokesfind themselves reluctant heroes ina series of misadventures as theytravel the West, all the while thinkingthat Hap's--or Laramie's--true love may be in thenext town.

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Rugaroo Savage Spirit Review

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(More customer reviews)I picked this book up for the first time in college when I was suggested it by a good friend. The characters and storyline immediately intrigued me, as they paint a vivid picture in one's mind. I found myself taking the book with me to class and reading throughout my lectures, just dieing to see how it ended. I have since passed the book on to countless friends who then continue to pass it to their friends with rave reviews. Myerchin has captured a culture and time in our history that he is able to present both intellectually and in an exceptionally entertaining manner. Though not my norm, I have since read this book over again, enjoying it just as much as the first time. Truly, 'The Rugaroo' is as fantastic novel that I would recommend to all.

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In 1988, a crumbling personal diary is unearthed near an Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The weathered pages reveal disturbing insights into the author's guilt-ridden mind.The journal, written by James Johansen in 1966, details his brief stay on a desolate Reservation. James is a middle-aged psychologist recruited from East Los Angeles who becomes too intrigued with the disjointed stories of a young Indian woman who appears at the door of his primitive two-room Counseling Center.The young woman, Mara, draws him into her stories about the native spirits and offers to reveal the source of her troubling dreams. She leads him to the Rugaroo, the terrifying spirit that promises understanding and control over the weak.'Bonne Homme', an old Chippewa gentleman, urges James to change the direction of his journey before it becomes impossible.The journal also allows the reader to share the touching relationship between the desperate psychologist and a warm and caring nurse from the Public Health Service. Barbara Lonepine is the beautiful Sioux Indian who gently tries to pull James away from his compulsion with the spirit that fills his tormented dreams and his tortured waking hours.The disintegrating document lays bare a journey that James Johansen begins with innocent fascination. The childlike fascination slowly becomes an obsession that compels him toward a path of awful destruction.These moldy pages pulled from the earth allow us to understand how the Rugaroo is an allegory of the human collective unconscious.

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