Winging It
Tex FryDispatches from a bookstore owner in Knoxville, Tennessee with too much time on his hands.
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Year In Books 2025: Part 6
Dear reader, we come to the end of my reading journey for 2025. It has truly been a wild and crazy ride through some amazing novels with only a few misses.
Let’s see what I closed the year out with shall we?
Read 11/26/25 - 11/30/...
Year In Books 2025: Part 5
I didn’t quit reading after I hit 60 books. Nay — I kept on.
Here are books 61 through 75!
Read 9/16/25 - 10/8/25
I read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson last year and enjoyed it greatly. I’m a sucker for books on small town rural li...
Year In Books 2025: Part 4
We’re back baby! Without further ado, let’s get to them books, shall we?
Read 8/6/25 - 8/9/25
This is one of those situations where I totally judged a book by it’s cover.
I thought it looked really cool — and I was right! The Hors...
Year In Books 2025: Part 3
A big thing happened after I finished Lonesome Dove in May of 2025.
My wife and I welcomed our first son, August, into the world on May 25th! He goes by Gus and is the best, sweetest little boy. So, with the arrivals of Baby Gus and the N...
Year in Books 2025: Part 2
Welcome back to my review of every book I read in 2025!
Let’s get to it.
Read 2/25/25 - 2/27/25
My favorite historical figure hails from good old East Tennessee: David Crockett. He was a backwoods frontiersman turned politician t...
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Howdy folks! My name is Tex and I'm from Tennessee. I am the former co-owner of America's least pretentious bookstore: Bear Den Books. I write stuff sometimes!
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