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Read this a while ago. Great book! It was part of a trilogy. ☘️💚

@BookmarkTavern #sundayfunday

Sometimes I go to bargain bag day at the end of the library book sale. I do this, not to score a big bargain ($5 a bag!), but in hopes that I will find little or nothing I‘m interested in buying among the picked over remains, what with how my mortal life will probably end long before I‘ve read all the books I already own. Considering the stack pictured, it is safe to assume that this approach works for me approximately🤔…0% of the time. #BookHaul

I loved spending time with the Langdons!

This is a family saga, set across 30 years, and written in my favourite style, where the little day-to-day things are just as important as the big life-changing events.

I look forward to reading the next two in the trilogy.

Thank you so much for this book Emma @Oryx - fabulous! 😘

I made out pretty well at my library‘s book sale today with a few cozy mysteries, some historical fiction and a bit of non-fiction. Totally didn‘t need to bring another book into my house but I just couldn‘t stay away from the $5 bag sale!

Well I thought that was just marvelous. Each chapter is a different year in the life of a family in Iowa from the 20s to the 50s. I've already downloaded the next book on audible, as I can't wait to find out what happens to all the children and grandchildren as they spread out across America.

@Cathythoughts post on this trilogy inspired me to finally pick this one off my shelves. About a quarter in, and it's great.
Reading in the garden with Miss Daisy, who is a bit under the weather at the moment.

I loved this Hundred Years trilogy , I still remember the characters fondly & certain scenes stay with me.
A great family saga.

#20Series20Days @Andrew65

Well, the cat might not be too enthusiastic, but I‘M looking forward to starting this one.

#catsoflitsy

#luckinthetitle #MarchMadness @Eggs
I loved this one. I need to read the rest of the trilogy!

When I started this book I was a bit disappointed and was thinking I would not finish it. I am really glad I stuck with it! I ended up really enjoying it. It is a slow meandering story of one family. Each chapter is a snap shot of a year between 1920 and 1952. I ended up loving the way it was written and the descriptions of farming life. Not action packed but a lovely read

Goodreads tells me that this has been on my ‘To Read‘ list for the last four years! It‘s time to get it started then! 😀

March stats. My #favoritesofMarch were the tagged book, Loose Ends, and Becoming. #literaryluck @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This is a book to savor. Not a page turner, it won‘t keep you up at night to read just one more chapter. What it will do is settle into your heart and live with you. You get to know the characters so well that you anticipate their reactions and think “That‘s so like Frankie to do that.” They become family in that “I know all your stories and that embarrassing thing you did when you were 5” kind of way. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

1. Tagged book, plus Henry IV part 1, The House by the River, and Glass Houses;
2. Either;
3. “They hurried back to the carriage to close the windows lest the smuts should get into Harriet‘s eyes.”
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

“And, boys, if you have to go to Texas for something, you don‘t need it.”

I know some people have described this as slow, but I‘m loving the character development. Especially the baby Frank!

The face is not because of the book (although at about 70 pages in, I am finding it to be a slow go) but because I left my Kindle at work yesterday (Some Luck! 😉) and so I have to get my morning reading done on my phone-doable but not my fave. This first of a trilogy is clearly a set-up book so I‘m trying to be patient, but I definitely won‘t finish it in time for bookclub tonight 🤷🏻‍♀️

This was a great read - all American family saga! Thank you Cathy as I‘d probably never have read this otherwise!
Enjoyed it so much have already brought the next one....#booksbroughtfromyourbed

Loved it!
I've ended up dashing to the library to get the next two in the saga!
There's history, romance, birth and marriage and death. It really kept me reading.

This has been on my pile for a few months.
I think I've slipped over it as it's a hardback and therefore tricky to carry around with me 😆
Excuses!
It recounts the story of a farming family in USA on the 20's, their lives and the community.

Day 5 challenge: unfinished book or series. I want to finish this series, but I can‘t even get through the first book. I like it quite well, but I‘m stalled. Some day. #BoB23IGPhoto

Any favorites/recommendations in this stack? I‘m looking forward to reading Jane Smiley‘s The Last Hundred Years trilogy! #bookhaul

Find an author from your state and go check out one of their books from your library. Support your libraries and local authors. Jane Smiley is from Iowa and we have all her books at our library!

#MarchIntoOz #IShouldBeSoLucky I‘m afraid it‘s Jane Smileys book again. ☘️☘️☘️

#AlltheRightStuffGiveAway
Thankyou so much for your #alltherightstuffgiveaway & congratulations on your milestone 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I loved this trilogy by Jane Smiley , I remember it fondly. ( wasn‘t ALL fuzzy though) I remember the characters warmly.

Some #green books from the downstairs shelves. #readingResolutions @Jess7

#NuYear #mylastday @Cinfhen @TrishB I remember Rosanna dying in Jane Smileys One Hundred Years Trilogy. I‘ll never forget the words she spoke to her son Joe. ( can‘t repeat / Spoiler) I read this years ago & the characters have stayed with me. Loved this trilogy ❤️. (Mind you I bailed on any other book I tried of hers. But I did get The Greenlanders lately, that‘s Meant to be good. ) Last Days , last words. I‘m no good at goodbyes ❤️

Started listening to this today. Not sure I care enough to keep going but, I‘m going to keep going. 😬😴

Trying to make my series reads challenge before the new year!

Book Haul. The whole trilogy was at Goodwill today. Haven't ever read it so I said might as well. I've also never read a Jane Smiley book. We'll see...

#90sInJuly #NoRain
Some Luck, the first book in a trilogy, covers the 1930s depression & drought in Iowa & the effect this decade has on a farm family. The saga covers 1920 to early 1950s.
@Cinfhen @Robothugs
Including NYT review that is mixed. I do recommend the book despite some flaws, & plan to read the next two in the trilogy. Read other work of hers.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/jane-smiley-some-luck-review....

Starting this one on audio. I loved A Thousand Acres. Hope it's good!

Has anyone read it? I'm quick to bail on audiobooks if they don't grab me pretty quickly, thus I always checkout audio from the library. Yay for libraries! 📚👍📚👍

(5 minutes later)

UPDATE - NOPENOPENOPE. Annoying narrator, but I'll give it a shot in print.

#audiobook #currentlyreading #fiction

This is like Seinfeld, the show about nothing. It is the book about nothing. Don't know if I will read the other two books.

Midwestern family saga? I'm in! #andawaytheygo

Not a particularly long book, but a full one. One Iowa farm family rides the wave of history for three consequential decades of the early twentieth century. Reminds me a bit of Dos Passos in its effortless ability to capture the zeitgeist. I love how her characters remember something that happened hundreds of pages earlier but I'd already forgotten in the endless cascade of human events. Can't wait to start book two!

Woah! As a writer I am totally blown away by this book. There is no plot to speak of. 7 POV characters and no discernible desires for any of them. It's so good! Can't put it down. Why?

The first, and in my opinion, the best book of this family trilogy.

Good book. I'll miss some of the characters.

I love the ever so slightly 'off' lettering on the cover.

Slow to get into but now can't put book down. Characters drew me in-

Love me some Smiley 😊

First in a trilogy, SOME LUCK's chapters each cover one year in the life of the Langdon family. The series covers a century. From the family farm to all over the U.S., the Langdon's experience history generation by generation. If you adore family sagas, this is the series for you. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I am one of these people 😃