Six Mary Westmacott Novels: Giants' Bread / Absent in the Spring / Unfinished Portrait / The Rose and the Yew Tree / A Daughter's a Daughter / The Burden

Six Mary Westmacott Novels: Giants' Bread / Absent in the Spring / Unfinished Portrait / The Rose and the Yew Tree / A Daughter's a Daughter / The Burden | Mary Westmacott

Hey #LMWBR gang! So after a dramatic couple of weeks I‘ve finally got my hands on Giants Bread, our #MaryWestmacottBuddyRead for September. Hope you guys are enjoying it so far - I will plan to post discussion prompts on Sept 16, but this is an egalitarian project - please do post your own reviews & discussion topics as you finish and tag the group!

CSeydel All are welcome - just let me know if you‘d like to be added/removed from the tag list ☺️
@Ruthiella
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@BarbaraJean
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@batsy (edited) 1y

peanutnine I'm still waiting on my library copy to come in. Hopefully soon 🤞🏻 1y

Ruthiella I‘m almost done with Giant‘s Bread. 👍 1y

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BarbaraJean Not sure how I missed this post! My library hold has been “in transit” for a couple weeks now, so I got impatient and started reading it on Internet Archive over the weekend. I‘m not sure if I like it, but I‘m finding it fascinating and couldn‘t put it down, so there‘s that! 1y

CSeydel @BarbaraJean It‘s one that I hadn‘t read before and as I read, I started wondering if it was the best one to start with! But - we will have plenty to discuss, I think. 1y

CSeydel @BarbaraJean I may have messed up the tagging by copy-pasting it 1y

BarbaraJean I feel like tagging on Litsy behaves inconsistently! I'm on the web version now, and the tags in your comment above show up as a clickable links like usual. But it just looks like text in the app. 1y

willaful Shoot, I somehow never saw this. :-( I'll join in on the next one. 1y

CSeydel @willaful there‘s still time if you want to read it! I will make some discussion posts later today, but you can comment on them whenever you‘re ready! I figured I‘d start the discussion mid-month to split the difference between people who read it early in the month and those who read it later. 1y

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Roary47

Six Mary Westmacott Novels: Giants' Bread / Absent in the Spring / Unfinished Portrait / The Rose and the Yew Tree / A Daughter's a Daughter / The Burden | Mary Westmacott

How exciting! I‘m totally in, I love Agatha Christie. Plus I‘ll be on maternity leave for some of this. I‘ll just read it to baby E. 💛😍 #BuddyRead @CSeydel

CSeydel Yay! 1y

CSeydel And congratulations 🍼 1y

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CSeydel

Six Mary Westmacott Novels: Giants' Bread / Absent in the Spring / Unfinished Portrait / The Rose and the Yew Tree / A Daughter's a Daughter / The Burden | Mary Westmacott

Hey #agathachristie fans … anyone interested in reading the Mary Westmacott books together? There are 6 novels published under that pen name, not murder mysteries. The author describes one of these, Absent in the Spring, as “the one book that has satisfied me completely, the book that I had always wanted to write, that had been clear in my mind.”

Who wants to join? We can plan a schedule once I know who‘s interested. #agathachristiebookclub

Ruthiella I have that very edition pictured! I‘ll read along with you. 👍😃 2y

KathyWheeler I‘d like to join. When do you plan on doing this? 2y

CSeydel @KathyWheeler I am open to suggestion. One idea is to read one per month from July-December. Or if people are “booked” for the summer (haha) we could start in September. What would be a good schedule for you? 2y

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CSeydel @Ruthiella Woohoo! 2y

KathyWheeler @CSeydel I just retired in June. I‘m taking a trip to Canada with my sister in July. I am taking some books with me, but I still might not read much. After that trip though, since I‘m retired, I‘m really open as far as my time goes. 2y

CSeydel @KathyWheeler 👍🏻👍🏻 2y

quietjenn Yes! I think I have all of these and reading the Lucy Worsley bio made me really want to get to them. (I've only read one.) 2y

CSeydel @quietjenn Yay! 1y

CSeydel @Ruthiella @KathyWheeler @quietjenn Looking at my summer workload, I‘ve decided to start in September and read one per month. How does that sounds to you guys? Also, we need a hashtag! 1y

Ruthiella September is perfect for me. 👍 1y

KathyWheeler @CSeydel Perfect! I thought it would be easy to get the books from the library but it‘s not! 1y

quietjenn September works for me! Will try to think of a good hashtag ... 1y

CSeydel @quietjenn Yay! 1y

CSeydel If nobody thinks of anything creative I might just do “LMWBR” for Litsy Mary Westmacott Buddy Read 1y

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