Just a reminder that the #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead of The Country of the Pointed Firs begins today! We‘ll have a discussion halfway through, on Saturday Feb. 8, then we‘ll discuss the whole book on Saturday, Feb. 15. All are welcome—let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!
I love this book and its sketches of life along the rocky coasts of Maine. ??⚓ Time for a re-read methinks.
Painting "Port Clyde, Maine" by N.C.Wyeth.
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pickThis is a quiet book with a series of focused studies on people or places in a small town in northern Maine. #coldweatherislands #serialreader
pickI hustled and read ahead on this, I was anxious to not end 2016 with 113 books read! So this is #114 and I'm happy to close out the year on such a lovely little book, full of descriptions of the old life of Maine. #newenglandahforlife
Such beautiful language, Sarah Oren Jewett gets a lot of mileage out of the story of Joanna in this book. #serialreader #maine
The holidays have me off my game! I normally have a schedule in the mornings - husband leaves at 7:20, I don't start work until almost 9, so I take that hour and a half or so and have coffee/breakfast, do some light housework, and read my @SerialReader app. Well, today I have to watch my nephew during the day, so I started work immediately. My day just feels off with no chapters this morning! 😂
Preach, Sarah Orne Jewett! That is a truly excellent point about New England men of the time! 🙌 The quote is from an old sea captain, pointing out to the narrator that the sea trade is dying out as it once was, and it's created a generation of men who would have worked on the sea, but are instead living like nowhere but their little corner of the world exists. Timely.
"Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out." Mrs. Todd gave a funny little laugh. "Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."
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@Tamra I understand the many obligations!! I always overload myself with Litsy buddy reads and all my “required“ reading right now is stressing me out a little!
@julieclair I'm excited, too! 4d