Dinah needs our book help for one she read a long time ago… and just the mention of “forbidden love” has me ALL ears!!!
She asks:
Hi, Maryse!
I’ve been reading your blog forever and one of my favorites is when you help readers find a book. I was hoping you might be able to help me out. I read this book A LONG TIME AGO, when I was a teenager. I can barely remember the details.
But I feel like it had some kind of western vibe, forbidden love kind of thing. Like maybe he was a cowboy and she was a teacher or she was married or widowed or something?
Anyway I remember the story being in 3rd person but every time it was the hero’s sequence there would be a poem to lead into the chapter. Anyway, 15 years later and i still remember bits and pieces of these poems.
This is either two parts of the dame poem or two entirely different ones.
“What man am I to flee her sweet embrace and leave her from my sight”
“And though it beats inside my chest, each steadfast beat now bares a cost”
Thank you so much. I swear the second part of the first one is something like “to save her from my plight” because I remember thinking it was a funny word.
But its been a long time.
Does this one sound familiar? Have a guess?
Chris: Oh I’m pretty sure I know this really obscure one! Only because there was a movie made from it ages ago starring Sam Elliott. We probably still have the VHS (!!) somewhere. It’s called Conagher: A Novel and the movie was based on a Louis L’Amour book. Western, she’s a lonely widow who leaves bits of poems out on the prairie and he finds them.
Maryse: Oh wow!! That was quick, Chris. Thank you!!!!
Dinah: No. Unfortunately its not. I just double checked. The one I’m thinking of it’s the guy that writes the poems.
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Oh I’m pretty sure I know this really obscure one! Only because there was a movie made from it ages ago starring Sam Elliott. We probably still have the VHS (!!) somewhere. It’s called Conagher and the movie was based on a Louis L’Amour book. Western, she’s a lonely widow who leaves bits of poems out on the prairie and he finds them.