Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another | 
panI really, really wanted to love this book. I was so excited. But Ellen came across as over-privileged and self absorbed. The storytelling failed to suck me in and I found myself trying to get through this as quickly as possible so I could move onto more interesting books. The end was a bit abrupt, though the sweet notes to pets were heartwarming. Disappointing all around.
pickAfter falling in love with Vermont on a vacation, Ellen Stimson and her family move from St. Louis to a small town, Dorset. They then decide to buy the town‘s country store, a fixture of the community, and make one incredible mistake after another.
I understand how this book has gotten some negative reviews. You can‘t help but shake your head at some of their mistakes and feel a bit bad for the townspeople, but I found the stories very humorous.
so-soStimson & her family move to a small town in Vermont, bring a contractor and crew from St. Louis to remodel their home, buy the local country store on a whim and run it into the ground & generally upset the locals. There was definitely humor in here and her sections on what makes Vermont so special were beautiful, but I was more annoyed with her than anything else. Rich people moving to “quaint” towns and then trying to change them annoy me.
