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Absolutely delightful! The movie is excellent too!!

An absolute delight! Loved it.

#storysettings #farm

The humour might not work for everyone but I thought it was a very enjoyable story. 🐖

This was a fun read.

#Farm #HumbleHarvest
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion, but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, ‘Collecting material‘. No one can object to that.

#SundaySentence

“The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.“

#FridayReads #FirstLineFriday

This book was a hoot! Oh the hilarity! I couldn‘t stop smiling! I loved the people, loved the animals and loved the made up words, like mollocking! I watched the movie when I finished the book. It was ok but I feel it didn‘t capture the true spirit or the warmth of Flora Poste, the Starkadders or cold comfort farm.
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I‘ve read too many good books this year to pick a manageable number of favourites. So I‘ve chosen these ones based on a bunch of arbitrary categories 😜.

From L to R: unexpected pleasure and lol; underrated #ozfiction; Muslim chiclit; best YA.
2nd row: quirky page-turner; must-read histfic; must-read Aus non-fic; best challenge-my-perspective non-fic.
3rd row: must-read Aus essays on misogyny; new-to-me must-read Aus author; ⬇️ for final 4

Especially delightful on audio. 4 1/2*
#1001books

So, I read the first chapter and thought to myself that I could sense the wicked wit of Austen but in a more modern setting, published as this novel was a century later (in 1932). Then, on the very first page of second chapter, I found this. Her mentioning my favourite work of Miss Austen as well. The work that made me fall in love with her writing. I was giddy like a little child and simply had to come on here to share.

I loved this book 💕😆. So clever and funny. I can see why it‘s on ‘must read‘ and ‘funniest books‘ lists. I struggled a little at first with the language and tone, but then it really hit its stride and I annoyed my family with my guffaws. I can also see why it‘s a ‘comfort read‘ for some people because I can imagine going back to it (and I‘m not prone to re-reads). Hilarious 🤣👏. Now for the movie 🎥…

So I‘ve hit page 100 and I‘m laughing out loud at Flora and Mr Mybug‘s first encounter. So wrong, but so funny. 🤭 #currentlyreading

*the pictured text is a screenshot of what I found when I googled ‘sukebind‘.

Sukebind? Mollocking? Scranleting? I‘m up to page 78 and have so far found some of the vernacular impenetrable. Then Gibbons adds in these made-up words to further confuse me. I am intrigued and amused though & I shall persist💪📖🤓.

#currentlyreading #classic

For book club. For first time I watched the movie before reading the book. I really enjoyed both and glad I did it that way. The movie is interesting in that it‘s actors we all know when they were very young. The person who picked it did so because she kept seeing it on lists of books you “should” read. Written in 1932 , my edition published in 1977. It smells delicious.

So it‘s all the blues here today with my #currentreads and my nails. Our 13yo has Covid and I‘ve worked from home for the for the past 3 days. Now it‘s my days off and I have no excuse not to finish these two beauties to meet the #shakespearereadalong #sonnets and my Monday #bookclub deadlines. We have to isolate until Sunday at the earliest so🤞🙏.

Making a start on this at the hairdressers this morning. It‘s this month‘s book club read. #currentlyreading #classics

A good book tho slow start. 4 of 5 ⭐

#Farm #SavvySettings
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My #bookspin list for February 2022. My reading took a bit of a hit in January when my whole family caught COVID from my unvaccinated two year old. 😂😂 Thankfully, we all were only mildly sick and are getting back to real life. Excited to see what February brings!

BRB, gotta update an Elfine-style cape to my Christmas wishlist! 😆 💚

#coverart

Sometimes it takes about a 100 pages for a book to sink in and sometimes all you need is the first sentence to know that the book is going to be a delight.

What a whimsical cover, too! 💜
#currentread #coldcomfort #perfectfordecember

Fun!

Y‘all, I‘m obsessing over this book. I‘m not even halfway through. Flora is 🔥, I just love her so much. Every quip, every carefully crafted retort, is pure gold.

This classic took a bit to get going but once I hit the halfway point I couldn‘t put it down. Flora goes to live with her extended family at Cold Comfort Farm and makes it her personal mission to change everyone‘s lives for the better. It‘s quite funny and I‘m looking forward to watching the movie. Also grabbed a used copy of Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm on eBay yesterday. 4⭐️

#classic
#historicalfiction
#funny

When you can't (or don't want to sleep) at 1:30am. Thankful I have a well-lit tablet 🤫😀

Just starting. I'm on chap 5 and not enjoying it yet.

Took the kids to the #bookbarn in Niantic today as it was a beautiful day for a drive and wanted to get in a few last hurrahs before the end of summer. Of course we really should be back to school clothes shopping but book shopping is so much more fun!

After mentioning the movie in my last review I thought it was about time I read Cold Comfort Farm. It was a delight. I often struggle with satires but this hit every note true. I think if you‘ve read some 19th century or gothic fiction you‘ll recognise the type of characters. Although officially a parody of 1920s rural melodrama I was picturing moody Heathcliffs and flighty Catherines being schooled by Flora. Basically a story of Flora ⬇️

Read this super fast. Love the protagonist, Flora, a straight up feminist bad ass who likes to get things done ( I can see alot of myself in her 😂). A funny satire of rural life although I must admit at times bits went a little over my head ?! I will have to read up on the books themes a bit more to get my head round it I think!!

One from my TBR

#Cold
#WordsOfOctober
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620

Charming read. Gail Carriger recommended both the Book and the Movie in her author's notes of Defy or Defend. Movie wasn't on any of my streaming services so I ordered a DVD from Vintage Stock. Movie night soon!

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Alright.

Book club responses…
A: I thought I would like it more than I did
B: Spent a day trying to visualize the layout of the farm early on, then bailed
C: Not very far into it—Flora hasn‘t got to the farm yet
D: Forced myself to finish it
E: Hated. Beloved Sussex maligned
F: Hated the cover so much I couldn‘t bring myself to read it (Roz Chast edition)
Lindy: 🤷‍♀️I enjoyed it so much I‘m now on the library wait list for the BBC radio drama adaptation

Day 19 - #RuralSetting #BiblioMaynia
#ColdComfortFarm #StellaGibbons

I read this book in 2015 and found it very entertaining. It is also on the #1001BooksToReadBeforeYouDie list

The only trouble with the critical reception of Cold Comfort Farm when it was published in 1932 (apart from the interesting assumption by one critic that it couldn‘t possibly have been written by a woman) was that all this talk of it being a ‘wicked‘ parody began. It is even sometimes called cruel. Reading the book now it seems clear that no wickedness or cruelty comes into it—& perhaps casual misogyny has been at work … again. -L Truss intro⬇️

“Does she go to school?” asked Flora. “How old is she?”
“Seventeen. Nay, niver talk o‘ school for my wennet. Why, Robert Poste‘s child, ye might as soon send the white hawthorn or the yellow daffydowndilly to school as my Elfine. She learns from the skies an‘ the wild marsh-tiggets, not out o‘ books.”
“How trying,” observed Flora.

“What‘s that you‘re making?” he asked. Flora knew he hoped it was a pair of knickers. She composedly shook out the folds of the petticoat and replied that it was an afternoon tea-cloth.

The dawn widened into an exquisite spring day. Soft, wool-like puffs of sound came from the thrushes‘ throats in the trees. The uneasy year, tortured by its spring of adolescence, broke into bud-spots in hedge, copse, spinney and byre.

He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros.

Day 20 - #DownOnTheFarm #MarchMadness
#ColdComfortFarm #StellaGibbons

Cold Comfort Farm is an engaging & humorous satire of English Society at the turn of the century. Stella Gibbons has a true gift for wit. I enjoyed the old matriarch shut-in who claims throughout the book, "I saw something nasty in the woodshed". A must read for anyone with a sense of humor. The characters are eccentric and funny and you cannot read this book without laughing.

Very entertaining read!

Accompanied by my BuJo, my Sharpie fine-point pen, and a bookmark from @Crazeedi , I fought fever and whining to finish the first book from the stack my spouse checked out for me for Christmas!

This was a fun, strangely futuristic read with a good number of phrases and witticisms to laugh about. One of my favorites for no discernible reason is Mrs. Beetle's non sequitur "Paws off, Pompey!" Not much substance past the fun, but I'm not complaining.

I very optimistically set myself up to read while weathering this stupid cold/fever thing but instead have been listlessly scrolling through Litsy and Goodreads on my phone. Probably means I should go to sleep...

Owen says neck scratches first, then reading (although he makes no promises about the reading part).

I‘ve seen this book on many reading lists and so tried it. I really quite enjoyed it, Flora, the protagonist is a really interfering busybody with the audacity to not give two hoots about the consequences. I guess it‘s not surprising that the story did not give Flora any comeuppance for her meddling.

#manicmonday ☆ @JoScho

📕 Cold Comfort Farm 🤷‍♀️

🎬 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

🎵 Adam Sandler's Thanksgiving Song (SNL)
https://youtu.be/2bH0rULAHEg

Illustrator Roz Chast does Cold Comfort Farm! Jacket flaps and back cover are terrific too. #7covers7days or is it??? #7days7covers #covercrush #parody #anglophilesoflitsy @Aimeesue

Gibbons seems to be the poor cousin of early 20th century authors, ignored by academics and readers alike. She wrote Cold Comfort Farm with her tongue planted firmly in her cheek. It lands somewhere between Jane Austen and Fawlty Towers. I really enjoyed it, in spite of myself (and its cover, maybe there is something to that “not-judging-a-book” business after all). Full review: http://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/cold-comfort-farm-stella-gibbons/

#friyayintro @howjessreads

1. This book got me through having swine flu, my favourite comic novel ever!

2. Went to a great improv show Monday, broke my treadmill record Wednesday, both great things

3. Chinese? Soo much variety

4. Yep five, I used to see them quite a lot but not so much anymore.

5. Will do! 🥰🥰🥰