Crazy For Trying edition by Joni Rodgers Literature Fiction eBooks
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This brave debut novel by bestselling author Joni Rodgers, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Discover Award finalist.
Seeking to escape the shadow of her infamous mother—a radical lesbian poet who is larger than life, even in death—Tulsa Bitters, zaftig, bookish and freshly orphaned, takes a westbound train, determined to reinvent herself. She gets a job as a late-night disc jockey at a radio station in Helena, Montana. It’s 1979, and people aren’t accustomed to hearing a woman’s voice on the radio, but for Tulsa, far away from all the people who loved and hurt her, midnight rock’n’roll feels like home. Painfully aware that she’ll never be beautiful, she discovers the benefits of being invisible.
Michael White Wolf MacPeters, half Blackfoot, half raging Irish, hears her voice on the radio and finds himself on the phone with her one night. The conversation evolves, smart, funny, and full of compassion, and Mac begins a careful courtship, her voice in his ear, his voice in hers. Despite the baggage of his damaged past—from the suicide of his half-breed mother to his own bloody passage in Vietnam—Mac allows himself to believe it could work, but the unlikely romance is cause for horror among Tulsa’s friends and Mac’s drinking buddies.
With love-struck energy and sharp-tongued tenacity, Rodgers loads up a tight circle of lovers, adversaries, dysfunctional family members and comically flawed friends, driving them down a fresh road through hard-earned love, a dangerous western solitude, and the old sexual politics.
Praise for CRAZY FOR TRYING
“Think Jane Eyre with rock’n’roll.” Houston Press
“Terrific…a rollicking ride through emerging feminist sensibilities.” Billings Gazette
“A fresh pleasure…Rodgers writes unconventional love scenes that scorch the pages.” Orlando Sentinel
“Refreshing and provocative…” Houston Chronicle
“Truly captivating…Rodgers’ prose and style are unique.” Texas Books in Review
“Joni Rodgers can write sex scenes that’ll make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. At her best, her prose is dazzling, risky, and intoxicating, and at its heart, Crazy for Trying is an inspired debut.” Pam Houston, bestselling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness
Crazy For Trying edition by Joni Rodgers Literature Fiction eBooks
It's 11:30PM and I have just finished the book "Crazy for Trying" by Joni Rodges.This Romance novel kept my attention, but I was able to put it down when I had other
things to do, because Joni's characters, Tulsa Bitters and Michael MacPeters, stayed
in my mind while I was somewhere else.
Mac's background, I resonate with, because I am a Vietnam veteran who has known others
like Mac. They took years to adjust to society and had to have a jolt to get them out
of their wandering ways. Mac's jolt was meeting Tul. His family life prior to military
service didn't help to aid him in conquering the addictions and norms one acquires when
living in the same place all your life.
And along comes a firecracker, Tulsa, an intelligent bred dynamo, who deifies all the
norms of a small Montana town. Depressed because of what she believes to be her mother's
questioned love, she arrives in town to make her imprint by becoming VA, the Radio Disk Jockey,
who defies and conquers a male dominated media and reaches small town stardom.
These bring the two together: Love of music, radio, books, and Tulsa new love of the
open air and Mac's smell and demeanor. Mac: I love a women that reads. (I do Too.)
The age difference and Mac's lack of commitment and family problems are the major reasons
they go through some draw backs in their on and off relationship.
It's Tulsa's love and determination to ride this cowboy into a life changing endeavor, after
six marriages (A little over done. Three would have sufficed,) to become a part of a family
he thought he never had - a state of mind.
Tulsa's mother's will was the linchpin that would solve the Lovers final turmoil. OK, where in love,
but what's next, Mac's argument. It's in the mother's words (Para phased):
I want T. to have the opportunity to struggle, so she won't need a man to lean on completely.
Tulsa's does overcome adversities, including bagging a real man.
Her mother's after death best selling publication was bequeath to her (Unknown until the end.)
The advance check was in the book she lost but found in the finale, leaving the lover's solvent
to regain Mac's family's land, binding the two together to a Common Law Life.
Another man saved by a good woman. As they say, It's woman behind the man that makes the man.
In this well written story, it turns out that way. Tulsa saves Mac from his own destruction.
I'll never know if he'll hold the line, because I'm left feeling that he is still not fully committed.
If you like Romance Novels, this is a book you should read.
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Crazy For Trying edition by Joni Rodgers Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Pretty good.
This book had very real characters, with all the human foibles. I loved seeing the characters develop and grow. There are some sexual encounters described, which I could do without, but they don't overpower the story. Also includes drug use. But it fits the story. I would recommend the book, and read more by Joni Rodgers.
Although the story had some minor technical errors, Joni Rodgers' ability to draw the reader into her characters' lives overshadowed those errors. Her story contains well-written characters with depth and a sense of history. You might not always agree with her characters' actions, but you understood them. Tulsa reminded me of Janis Joplin, a talented woman who couldn't see beyond her own insecurities and `ugly duckling' image to recognize her own talent and beauty. Mac has his own scars from a troubled childhood and traumatic military career. These two damaged people struggle to find a relationship, battling against their histories and sometimes family and friends. Kept me up late at night reading.
This is a very good novel although the style of writing was very hard to follow at first because the changes between narrators often happened suddenly between paragraphs with no indication that there was going to be a change. Also, the romance seemed to be only a small part of the story; the main focus of the story were the character developments of Mac and Tulsa and how they came to terms with their pasts which included a host of social issues for both of them. Crazy for Trying is not a light read but it is a gripping page-turner with a great deal of realism in both the characters and the plot. The imagery of Montana was done extremely well; I could practically see and feel what was happening throughout the book. This is the first romance novel that I've read that has a Jew for a main character and, being Jewish myself, it was easy for me to identify with Tulsa. There was just one point that bothered me. I would have assumed that Tulsa's mother Alexandra would have had a Jewish funeral but Jewish law forbids people to view the body after death and a "viewing" and "visitation" at the funeral were specifically mentioned. Overall I enjoyed this book very much and would definitely recommend it to others.
In Crazy For Trying, Joni Rodgers, delivers a story that is as big and wide and gorgeous as its Big Sky country setting. It is a punch to the solar plexus, unflinching on so many levels. Troubled and witty, and sometimes irreverent, it is the truly courageous exploration of one young woman's journey through heartbreaking circumstances of loss and abandonment, of vulnerability and self doubt, to full-blown, joyous self-discovery.
Tulsa Bitters, the daughter of a famous, recently-deceased feminist, arrives in Helena, Montana with a dented heart, twenty bucks and a couple of guitars. She wants to hide and life gives her a plan, a way to do it in plain sight as "VA Lones", Helena's first female deejay. It's the job she was born for, one she loves. Soon she meets Mac, a guy twice her age, and she loves him, too. As Tulsa, or Tuppy-my-guppy, as her famous mother affectionately called her, she might have lacked the confidence to take on such a job and the lover, but as VA, she can be bold--sort of. The relationship between Mac and Tulsa is no typical May-December affair. It's a coming of age, a coming to terms for them both. It's tender and tough; it takes side roads that twist off the heart's ledge. A way is lost and then found only to drop into the dark night. A small town watches, or at times what is a full and colorful cast of players mixes in. As the reader, you become entangled, engrossed.
Rodger's voice is unique, a wry and beautiful gift, that breathes life into characters and a plot that is as vividly drawn and compelling as it is passionate. The ending is up for grabs. You might be surprised; you just might find yourself laughing through your tears.
It's 1130PM and I have just finished the book "Crazy for Trying" by Joni Rodges.
This Romance novel kept my attention, but I was able to put it down when I had other
things to do, because Joni's characters, Tulsa Bitters and Michael MacPeters, stayed
in my mind while I was somewhere else.
Mac's background, I resonate with, because I am a Vietnam veteran who has known others
like Mac. They took years to adjust to society and had to have a jolt to get them out
of their wandering ways. Mac's jolt was meeting Tul. His family life prior to military
service didn't help to aid him in conquering the addictions and norms one acquires when
living in the same place all your life.
And along comes a firecracker, Tulsa, an intelligent bred dynamo, who deifies all the
norms of a small Montana town. Depressed because of what she believes to be her mother's
questioned love, she arrives in town to make her imprint by becoming VA, the Radio Disk Jockey,
who defies and conquers a male dominated media and reaches small town stardom.
These bring the two together Love of music, radio, books, and Tulsa new love of the
open air and Mac's smell and demeanor. Mac I love a women that reads. (I do Too.)
The age difference and Mac's lack of commitment and family problems are the major reasons
they go through some draw backs in their on and off relationship.
It's Tulsa's love and determination to ride this cowboy into a life changing endeavor, after
six marriages (A little over done. Three would have sufficed,) to become a part of a family
he thought he never had - a state of mind.
Tulsa's mother's will was the linchpin that would solve the Lovers final turmoil. OK, where in love,
but what's next, Mac's argument. It's in the mother's words (Para phased)
I want T. to have the opportunity to struggle, so she won't need a man to lean on completely.
Tulsa's does overcome adversities, including bagging a real man.
Her mother's after death best selling publication was bequeath to her (Unknown until the end.)
The advance check was in the book she lost but found in the finale, leaving the lover's solvent
to regain Mac's family's land, binding the two together to a Common Law Life.
Another man saved by a good woman. As they say, It's woman behind the man that makes the man.
In this well written story, it turns out that way. Tulsa saves Mac from his own destruction.
I'll never know if he'll hold the line, because I'm left feeling that he is still not fully committed.
If you like Romance Novels, this is a book you should read.
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