As an avid reader, I don’t know how I made it 33 years old without reading a Willa Cather novel but somehow that’s what happened.  Though that’s changed now.  I just finished reading The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, my second novel of the year.  It’s a beautifully written book, with characters that are incredibly easy to love and relate too.  The main character, Thea, is magnetic to the other characters and to the reader.  Perhaps the most intriguing is that people fall in love not just with Thea but with her talents and they support her without asking for anything in return except that she use her gift. 

It did seem to take me longer to read this book than many others, but thats more because I’ve been reading several books at once than it is because of the book itself.  This book was a great introduction to Cather’s writings and I look forward to reading more of her American classics in the future.  I give the book 5 out of 5 stars.