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I expected something different based on the cover photo, but I enjoyed this book. Quirky, small town characters meet your protagonist at a crossroads. I liked these people & living in Timber Creek might not be so bad (except for the cold). It didn't take a dark turn I expected (thankfully) & then took a different, unexpected turn. I kind of hoped for more along the "pets" front, but I enjoyed this read & look forward to trying this author again.

This was an adorable book and I'm really glad I found it! It has two of my absolute favorite things, dogs and knitting ♡

If you're looking for an easy-to-read, soft on the heart kind of book, pick this one!

📚📖 Happy Reading! 📖📚

Yes I admit I pick a book based on the cover. But honestly how could you not pick this one? I have an English Bulldog but am a lover of all dogs. I‘ve never read anything by this author but she just might have got a new fan.

After a string of bad luck sends Maeve home to live with her parents, she gets a phone call from a stranger telling her that her birth mother has passed away. Although she never knew her birth mother, with some relictantance, she attends the funeral in Timber Creek, Washington and soon learns that everything her birth mother had was left to her.
Full review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3256995227

I LOVE this author‘s books! I‘ve been so excited to read this one. It isn‘t quite as pet- or dog-centric as some of her other books, like Pupcakes, but still so good. Ms Noblin is great at weaving tougher topics into her stories while keeping them lighthearted and heartwarming and feel-good. There is a very lite romance in here, but the biggest thing about this story is the group of strong women that befriend the main character Maeve. #dogsoflitsy

“I enlarged the picture to get a better look at the books just behind them on the top shelf.”

I do this too!! 🙋🏻‍♀️ Anybody else??

A novel about Maeve whose biological mother gave her up for adoption, never responded to Maeve‘s overtures to get to know her, and surprisingly, after dying left her home, car, and cat to Maeve, this is a light book on a lot of difficult topics but it felt a little like an outline that needed more detail. Full review at https://booknaround.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-st-francis-society-for-wayward.h...

I told my husband I wanted this book for Valentine‘s Day and he remembered! I might have told him numerous times, sent him pictures of it, tagged him in posts where I mentioned it, and showed it to him at the bookstore but, you know, none of that offers any guarantees. He remembered. That‘s what matters!

Did you get any new books today?

So I complained earlier in the week about a continuity error in the #ARC of this book & that still bugs me but I ended up liking this book more than a so-so & I am going to assume the issue was fixed in the final edition & go with a pick. Good balance of humor & poignancy & although not as many pets as the title & cover would imply, there are pets in sweaters & the ladies who lo knit them. Some darker themes of abuse & domestic violence but not...

So, I know it‘s an uncorrected proof but the MC was asked to get Diet Coke at the grocery store for another character. Then it changes & she‘s dropping off chocolate Ensure to the nurse for the mother of the other character who said in an earlier chapter...that her mother DIED TWO SPRINGS AGO!😳There‘s a whole part about the MC looking at family pictures the nurse put out to help make the mother feel better. I hope they fixed it before publishing!

Today‘s soup is Mark Bittman‘s Lemony Red Lentil with Cilantro. I think it‘s good but I can‘t taste much 🤧🤒but it‘s low-effort, what I can taste is good & I ate a bowl between naps today & it hit the spot. What I didn‘t do today was read very much—my head is too stuffy however this cover of a book I am on a book tour for the week after next makes me smile so I included it. 🐶❤️

Link to blog post with vegan soup recipe is below 🍲

This book isn't really about what you'd think from the title or cover. It's about a woman named Maeve who finally learns her origin story when her birth mother dies. There is a tiny bit of romance, a tiny bit of danger, and a tiny bit about pets. But the St Francis Society is pretty minor.