Welcome to Litsy!

I‘ve been meaning to get to this 1925 #Canadian classic for decades, and now I‘m sorry that I put it off for so long. Loved it! Vivid descriptions of the rural Manitoba prairie setting; complex characterizations of family members living under the absolute rule of a tyrant, as well as the schoolteacher boarding with them; plus a propulsive plot—would they escape his control & realize their potential? I was enraptured by this realist prize winner.

It was April and the little buds were opening stickily on the elms, and tinging their boughs with purple and brown. The cottonwoods were festooned with ragged catkins. A softness was unfurling like silk ribbons in the pale air, and the earth was breaking into tiny warm rifts from which stole a new green.

Judith mounted the seeder and wove like a great dumb shuttle back and forth, up and down, across the rough tapestry of the land.

Giving myself a quiet, lazy morning before housework this afternoon.

I started this book in August then set it aside. It's pretty good, but a lot more grim than I expected. And with moving stress etc. I needed lighter reads. Picking it back up now that things are settling.

#12daysofchristmas day 6 - geese a-laying. Oh hey look I actually have a book with 6 geese on it (& a bonus one). Thanks #canlit! 😂
This one is still tbr so I can't vouch for which character is like the geese... there seems to be a lot of animal comparisons going on from the back blurb. It does make the mc sound pretty awesome though. This will be my 1925 book for #192019challenge
@LibrarianRyan