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WTR (What’s Toby Reading)? provides unsolicited and unsponsored (I don’t get paid) opinions of books I have recently finished.
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I’m no quitter. I see things through – most of the time. But, Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles just fell flat for me.
I tried to hang with the story of Simon Bouldin, a vagabond, ex-Confederate soldier/bandmember who fiddles his way through post-Civil War Texas. I tried for nearly 165 of the book’s 336 pages – until, I stopped.
The appeal of the book for others, I presume, might be a look into the unsettled American Southwest through the travels of a group of young men with little more than their instruments to their name. Reading about their adventures as they skip from town to town, finding work, and living wherever they can is endearing. After the crew jumped off the train outside of Houston, though, I took my own leap to close the hardcover for good.
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I simply just never warmed up to Simon’s story. (Insert the sad, slow fiddle-led tune.) I’ll have to learn about Simon’s misadventures via someone more patient and keen on Civil War era American history.
Please give it a read and let me know what happens – just because I put it down, doesn’t mean I do not harbor a bit of curiosity to learn what is to become of Simon the Fiddler.
