Mr.+Burtis


 * //__GOAL__: I hope to read at least one good book this summer up in the Big Horns while on a backpacking trip!//

Username: bburtis**

**Wow, here it is July 13, and I've actually finished my first book! It was __Open Season__ by C. J. Box. Box is a Wyoming author who lives in Cheyenne. He writes a series about a WY Fish and Game Warden named Joe Pickett. I had never heard of him before, but met him last week while in Yellowstone National Park. We were taking my sister in law and her husband around the Park when we stop at Old Faithful Inn. There was Mr. Box in person! I read the back cover of several of his books and decided to buy his first novel. I even got it autographed; it'll be worth some money in about 100 years!! I started the novel in the motor home (my sister in law's) and stayed up until 2 AM the night we got back to Big Horn to finish the mystery!

The plot follows Joe, the brand new game warden in the fictional town of Twelve Sleep, WY, as he investigates the murders of 3 outfitters. The plot was pretty easy to figure out as I read, but I give the author a break since it was his first novel. The action and descriptions were good, and the author definitely has added the WY flavor to his novel. I won't give away the ending in case you want to read it, but I'll leave you with this. . . in the end he saves his job, saves the animals, saves his daughter, and shoots off the bad guy's arm!

I still plan to read a book on a backpacking trip!

Oh, I guess I can count the 10 chapters I read out of my firefighting manual, too.**