not_frank_not_ever 's review for:

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
3.5

Some of the bits early in the novel about how the U.S. was super empty until the settlers came to tame the land are really tough to read in 2024, but those references thankfully drop off after the first part. The rest is a mostly tragic love tale that’s a bit uneven but usually quite quaint and maybe even a little cute. I don’t know; I can’t verbalize it, but something about Cather’s writing is like a warm blanket for my brain.