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This one usually flies under the radar, but it's excellent. It was a #pulitzerwinner in 1935 and Johnson is the youngest person to win for fiction at 24. Highly recommend.

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@Eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

🩵 I've already read so many great books this year, but Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson is one that I still think about.
🩵 I haven't had to DNF a book yet! I did pause Somewhere Beyond the Sea because I've had trouble concentrating on audiobooks, but that was a me problem.

#wondrouswednesday @eggs

WOW! What a book. The language is beautifully evocative. It's reflective and thoughtful. It's heartbreakingly human. I am saddened that it isn't a better-known book. I still have more research to do, but I saw a blog that suggested that Johnson "faded" into obscurity because of the inherent politics in her writing. The book does seem that it was ahead of its time, so I can see that being a factor. Plus, she was a woman.

Read this book.

8th book read November 2024

Beautifully written but so sad. It is the situation of this family struggling and trying to survive during the depression era. The story is narrated by Margaret one of the Haldmarnes daughters. The author describes the environment so well during this period of time, the poverty situation, racism, mental health, etc. no happy endings, no hopes just the real situation that permeated at that time⬇️

“I do not see in our lives any great ebb and flow or rhythm of earth. There is nothing majestic in our living. The earth turns in great movements, but we jerk about on its surface like gnats, our days absorbed and overwhelmed by a mass of little things-that confusion which is our living and which prevents us from really being alive.”

💔 A beautifully told story of a family‘s breaking and enduring during the dust bowl era.

Cheers to Friday! 😊

Every day is a great day for book mail! Definitely not waiting for November to read this gem.

What a beautiful & heartbreaking book about a family farm hit by the Dust Bowl. It's a powerful depiction of trying to survive the unfathomable. At the same time, it tells of three sisters & their competing desires & dreams. How does one continue to hope when all seems lost? It won the Pulitzer in 1935 when Johnson was 24. After years of being out of print, it's being re-released. If you're into "lost lady lit," this is for you. Highly recommend!

My #BookSpin #BookSpinBingo list for November aka #NonFictionNovember

“...but young in being so blind we could not see the heaviness of his responsibility or know the probe of that fear which made him want security at the expense of our happiness...”

Sadly November's #24B4Monday readathon was a bit of a bust for me, not even half the time I hoped to accomplish. I'll have to try harder in December. I did finish 2 Enola Holmes audiobooks, than I recommend, so it wasn't a total wash.
@Andrew65 @SumisBooks @jb72

My #NovemberWrapUp! I‘m on track to finish The Last Jedi tonight, so it‘s on here.🤞

Otherwise 5 for #NFNov, plus a few that cross-counted for #Booked2019 #Nonfiction2019 & #ReadTheCandidates
3 buddy reads #FellowshipOfTolkien #StarWarsBuddyRead & #PratchettPosse or #OokBOokClub
1 for #LMPBC
2 series completed
+whatever else floated my boat this past month. 😂

November you went by way too fast, how did we get this close to the end of the year😱

Library book! Pub‘d in 1934. #whatsinanamechallenge

My November, and most likely December, TBR List. ... so my end of 2019 list! 😉

A few series I‘m still working on catching up on, a few new releases, a few for #Booked2019, a bunch for my #Nonfiction2019 which will also work for #NFNovember and a few buddy reads, library check outs, etc miscellanea! 🙃

Bring on Fall 🍁

Wish I had finished it in November and it hasn't dragged on into January!