{"id":15061,"date":"2016-01-16T08:23:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15061"},"modified":"2016-01-15T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:24:37","slug":"book-report-life-is-simple-first-cutting-by-jerry-crownover-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/book-report-life-is-simple-first-cutting-by-jerry-crownover-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Life is Simple: First Cutting<\/i> by Jerry Crownover (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>I’ve been reading Jerry Crownover’s column in the Ozarks Farm and Neighbor<\/em> for a couple of years now, and I ran across one of his books, so I picked it up. This book<\/a> is an early collection–from twenty years ago–where Crownover was my age and had a couple of kids in the house. That is, these columns apply to my life a little more than his current ones do. Especially since I’m not a cattle man.<\/p>\n

At any rate, they’re short newspaper-style columns, many of which are built around a single anecdote where Crownover encounters a neighbor, another cattleman, or a non-rural fellow and has an epiphany or can spin some rural wisdom from the experience. There are also a couple of lightly politically themed jibes (in the First Clinton Regnum), but it’s mostly lifestyle column stuff.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed them and will pick up other books as I come across them, and I’ll continue to read the column in the OFN<\/em>.<\/p>\n