Julius Winsome  - Gerard Donovan
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#2019AtoZChallenge - "J"

This was a strange read for me.   At first I was enjoying it but then it seems to get repetitive.

Julius is a middle-aged man living in the woods of Maine with his dog, Hobbs.  He has lived in his cabin his entire life, first with his father and then on his own.   He lives alone with his dog and over 3,000 books that line the walls of the cabin.    Then one day he hears a shot and finds his only companion, Hobbs , dead.   He becomes obsessed with who would do such a thing.

The  book is told from Julius's perspective as he tries to find the killer.  His thoughts  go back to stories his father told him about his time in WWII  and his grandfather's time in WWI.
That is pretty much it, so it becomes repetitive. 

I liked some of this descriptions.   This when he buried Hobbs....
   “The shovel worked in and out of the light beams as the dirt hit him in the stomach, on his back, fell into his ears, his eyes, as I covered him along with the things that had made him: his walks, his rest, his eating when hungry, the stars he watched sometimes, the first day I brought him home, the first time he saw snow, and every second of his friendship, what he took with him into silence and stillness ...” 

But if I hadn't need a "J" book for the challenge,  I would not have read this one,  but I am  in the minority.
 Here is Goodreads description.
From the author of Schopenhauer's Telescope comes a beautiful and haunting novel of vengeance, literature, love, isolation, and man's tenuous grasp on reason.