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1) Change is Hard or It Isn‘t Quite What I Thought it Would Be

2) Tagged. Although I read it years and years ago it is what popped in my head.

Want to play @Gissy @Librarybelle @TheLudicReader

@TheSpineView

This arrived in the mail today from ThriftBooks, and yep, I ordered it myself. I just can‘t remember WHY I ordered it. Checked Litsy posts and cannot figure out why on earth I bought a book with 1176 pages. I remember this book from the early 80‘s, but have never read it. I‘m losing my marbles. 🤨🧐

I hate to quit on this book. I don't dislike it. I plan to try reading it again in a few years. Right now, I'm not invested enough in the characters or the plot to read 1200 pages of it. If it were shorter, I'd absolutely finish it. But it's too long to not love it

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks
Square 18 ✔️

#novelnovember @Andrew65
Gave up on book no. 3...

Update to#novelnovemer @andrew65 goals:

Read half of And the Ladies of the Club this week! Its only 1200 pages but it's a very slow 1200 pages. I don't see myself getting through more than 100 pages/day. So let's set realistic goals! 😂

Another special copy of a book. This one belonged to my aunt ❤️

Finally getting around to reading this one. Hoping to finish by the end of #novelnovember @andrew65

This is my favorite underrated book! It‘s a giant time of multi generational town politics and family dynamics and a historical fiction set in post Civil war in Ohio, one of my few retreads #24in48

This one is quite the commitment - coming in at 1433 pages! Simultaneously enjoying the sweeping epic and the look into small-town politics and history.

Readers who liked Gone With the Wind, The Thornbirds, and Little Women will likely enjoy this one!

(Don‘t know if you can tell, but my copy is falling apart! I had to tape the cover back onto the book! At least I love a well-read copy! 😆)

Started this book today for a buddy read with @Tove_Reads - it has 1176 pages. If we read 44 pages a day then we can finish it by June 30th. Now it doesn‘t seem so daunting.

You are welcome to join us, if you have a copy of the book. It‘s about women in Ohio in 1868 that formed a Women‘s Club in order to promote literacy among women. There are still functioning Women‘s Clubs in the US today.
#chunkster #andtheladiesoftheclub #buddyread #June

Yay, finally about to hit this book! Buddy read with @EadieB #chunkster #yearofthechunkster

@EadieB and I are planning a buddy read! Anyone else interested? #chunkster #yearofthechunkster

📕 ... And Ladies of the Club
📗 The Brothers Karamazov
📘 Michigan for my mom‘s 90th birthday party
📙 Italy 🇮🇹

@Tove_Reads #fridayfour

📕The tagged one. 📗War and Peace 📘Barcelona 📙Rwanda - Gorillas in the Mist / Tanzania -My Life with the Chimpanzees #Tove_Reads #fridayfour

We‘re supposed to get a big snowstorm tomorrow in Southern Vermont. ❄️ So I rushed to the library after choir rehearsal this evening and picked this beauty up. My therapist told me she thought I‘d like it, and it‘s also bigger than a brick. 😅📚🤓 #ilikebigbooksandicannotlie #bibliophile #bookworm #reader

So I read The Hate U Give last night in one sitting. It‘s such an important piece. Go give it a read if you haven‘t already. I just placed a hold on this title at my library. My therapist recommended it - she‘s as much a bibliophile as I am. If she wasn‘t my therapist we‘d probably be best buddies. Have any of you read this? #tbr

I need to quit my job to become a professional reader... These are some of my recent purchases of construction blocks I NEED to read. I‘ve been looking for some of these for ages, and now I have them, yay! How many hours will it take to get through all of these, what do you think?

Birthday book haul!

Biggest #chunksters on my TBR list.

1,184 pages - And The Ladies of the Club
1,076 pages - The Father's Tale
1,070 pages - Drums of Autumn
976 pages - Sacred Games
945 pages - Lonesome Dove
897 pages - I Know This Much Is True

Extremes in my TBR list. Can't believe I still have a book that I added in 2012. Probably time to read it or ditch it. And with 127 pages, why haven't I read Fair Play yet? The lowest rated book on my list is 3.46. Not too shabby.

I have a few #bigbooks over 600 pages long, but this one is about a ladies' literary club started in the civil war era and continues for another 50 years or so. I don't recall much talk about books, but a lot of family sagas and conflicts and romances. Good stuff, right? I read this when it first came out, all the talk about this book mainly focused on the first-time author being 88 years old! Need to re-read. #funphotofriday #funfridayphoto

My favorite book of all time, a giant tome with several generations of characters