Reading the States: Utah

State: UTAH

Fiction:
- When the Emperor was Divine* by Julie Otsuka
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

- The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

- The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald

- A Study in Scarlet* by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
- Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
- Papa Married a Mormon by John D. Fitzgerald

Nonfiction:
- The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith* by Jon Krakauer

- Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston

- Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert by Terry Tempest Williams

- American Massacre by Sally Denton

- The Poet and the Murderer by Simon Worrall

- Nothing Like It In the World by Stephen E. Ambrose

- Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness* by Edward Abbey

- Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

Authors Known for Writing in or about the State:
- John D. Fitzgerald

Authors Who Lived Here:
- Shannon Hale
- Richard Paul Evans

- Louise Plummer

- Dan Wells

Great Bookstores:

Atticus Books and Teahouse

The King’s English Bookshop

Sundancer Books

Braun Books

Back of Beyond Books

Arches Book Company

*Books I've Read

Photo by moi.  

On the Road Again

The Huz and I have serious love of road trips. In the past few years we’ve trekked out to the South Dakota Badlands, the Gulf Shore in Alabama, Lake Powell in Utah, the Redwoods in California, Crater Lake in Oregon, the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado to name a few.

So we’re excited about our next big trip. We’re leaving today to meander out to Glacier National Park (see that gorgeous picture above!) in Montana. We’re so excited! We’ll be hanging out in the Twin Cities, camping in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota and enjoying the beautiful trails in Glacier.

So anyway, I’ll be out of commission for the next couple weeks as we make our way through Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana. I have posts scheduled, but I will probably not be doing great on responding to your comments and commenting on your blogs. I will be enjoying your comments though! I have an iPhone, but won’t have great internet access. So I hope you all have a great couple weeks and I’ll be back soon with fun pictures!

Image from here.