Day: Jan 7, 2025

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 5

The Valley of the Horses by Jean M. Auel

Goodreads Blurb: This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.

Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter ahead. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don’t fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: This may be a controversial statement but … the least interesting thing about Jondalar is the size of his ‘manhood’. What? You thought I was going to say this book was better than the first one? Well, that’s objectively not true – but still an excellent book none the less, couldn’t put it down. Figuratively speaking.

Amazon Associates Link: The Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Gilmore Girls Love Interests of All Time: The Ninth Love of their Life

Is there anyone out there who actually likes Dean? Seriously? Why? Huh, well not to be offensive but that sounds deeply stupid, and this may not be the post for you. So we’ll see you tomorrow – as for the rest of you, onwards sane reader, to adventure.

Dean Forester

Okay, that was a bit of a joke – I didn’t actually mean to shit on anyone there. But come on this guy is the actual worst. He’s abusive, controlling, belittling, gets married on what looks like a whim, and then cheats on his wife with his ex-girlfriend. The only reason I can see anyone in the 2020s liking him is out of spite for Rory’s other two main love interests, Jess and Logan. And while neither of them are perfect, and it could be argued in the revival Logan is also a cheater – you know what they have, that Dean will never have? Actors that can actually act. That’s right Padalecki fan girls, I – having only watched him in this – have unjustifiably gone there.

The only reason this asshole isn’t the lowest on the list, is because unlike Dave no one’s going completely rabid over him, and insisting he was perfect. At least not the majority of people anyway. Which ironically makes me resent him less.

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