Litsy

I did it! 🎉🎉🎉 Finished my last two books for #192025 this weekend! It took me exactly 3 years.
It's been fun wending my way through the decades. I may at some point post my highlights from each decade
Thanks to @librarybelle for hosting. Now to read whatever I want from whatever year! 😉

TheBookHippie Wow!!!! I‘m almost there!! 20h

Graywacke That‘s amazing. Congrats. I‘m impressed. 3 years… 20h

Librarybelle This is so awesome! Congratulations!! And I would love to see your highlights! 🎉🎉🎉 20h

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Bookwormjillk Congratulations 🎉 20h

Deblovestoread Well done! 🎉🎉🎉 19h

Soubhiville That‘s impressive! Great job. 📚 19h

kspenmoll Congratulations!!‘ What an achievement! 19h

Ruthiella Nice work! 👏👏👏 18h

Texreader Fantastic!!! 🎉🎉🎉 18h

BarbaraBB Fantastic, congratulations! I‘d love to see your favorites! 17h

Cathythoughts What an achievement! Amazing 👏🏻📚❤️ 15h

LeahBergen Woohoo! Congratulations! 👏 14h

merelybookish @TheBookHippie It feels good to finish!! 7h

merelybookish @Graywacke @Bookwormjillk @Deblovestoread @Soubhiville @kspenmoll @Ruthiella @Texreader @BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts @LeahBergen Thanks friends!! 7h

merelybookish @Librarybelle Thanks for hosting! 7h

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OutsmartYourShelf

The Dwelling Place | Catherine Cookson

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When her parents die from an illness, 16-year-old Cissie Brodie & her younger siblings are left penniless & homeless & facing the shadow of the workhouse. To prevent them being split up, Cissie searches for somewhere else to live but with no money they cannot afford anywhere, except a cave on the moor. Cold & drafty to start with, the local carpenter helps Cissie turn it into something resembling a dwelling place, if not a home.

OutsmartYourShelf The carpenter, Matthew, is taken with Cissie but cannot afford to help the family as business is slow. The only way he can think of helping is getting one of the older boys a job at the local mill, but to do that he would have to finally marry the miller's daughter, Rose. Just as it seems that things may work out, a confrontation between Cissie, & the son & daughter of Lord Fischel (brother Clive, & sister Isabelle) changes everything.
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OutsmartYourShelf Now I'm well aware that this book has problematic elements but it's one of my favourite Catherine Cookson novels, along with 'The Fifteen Streets'. It's been a long time since I last read this one but it's still as compelling as ever. I first read it after watching the 1994 adaptation & there are some differences in the book, mainly that it takes place over a much longer period of time.
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OutsmartYourShelf In this re-reading what really stood out was the unfairness of the time: the inequality between the rich & poor before the law, & between men & women. I felt for miller's daughter, Rose, this time as all she wanted was for her husband to love her yet he treated her with disdain because she wasn't beautiful & threatened to take away the money & property she inherited from her father because under the law then, the man owned everything. Grim. 4🌟

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OutsmartYourShelf TWs: misogyny, rape, problematic themes.

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7674635838
Read 24th-28th June 2025

#192025 (1971) @LibraryBelle
#ReadAway2025 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES 2d

Librarybelle I‘ve not read anything by her, but I‘ve seen some miniseries based on her books. Good choice for the challenge! 2d

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1d

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Librarybelle

The Summer Book | Tove Jansson

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Beautifully descriptive vignettes of summer time on an island. While Sophia drove me crazy with her frequent crying and protestations, this shows a loving bond between grandmother and granddaughter. A nice escape and perfect for #MidsummerSolace #Naturalitsy #LitSolace #192025 #1972

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merelybookish

The Chrysalids | John Wyndham

Up next for #192025. I'm pretty sure I read this in Grade 9 English so am interested to see what I remember.

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merelybookish

Precious Bane | Mary Webb

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I loved this 1924 novel set in rural Shropshire during the Napoleonic wars when Christian faith and folk beliefs mingled. Prue is a wonderful heroine and the descriptions of the natural world were stunning.

Another one down for #192025. Only four more to go!

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Librarybelle This sounds good, and you‘re so close to finishing the challenge!!! 1w

LeahBergen I haven‘t read this author yet but I think she was one of the authors (along with Hardy) who Stella Gibbons was satirizing in Cold Comfort Farm. 😆 1w

BarbaraBB Wow! Which years do you have left? 1w

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merelybookish @Librarybelle My goal was by the end of June but I don't think I'll make it. 1w

merelybookish @LeahBergen I can see that! Definitely a romantic take on rural life. 🤔😄 1w

merelybookish @BarbaraBB I think 1938, 1950, 1955 and 1961. I have a book selected and/or started for every year except 1955. 1w

BarbaraBB Very impressive! 1w

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BarbaraJean

Black Sheep | Georgette Heyer

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This was SO MUCH FUN. I loved Miles & Abigail—their banter, humor, and romance, as well as the contrast & balance that becomes apparent between these two such well-matched characters. Heyer just gets everything right: Abigail‘s pitch-perfect near-caricature relatives—lovable and infuriating by turns—a surprising but thoroughly appealing male love interest, and comeuppance where it is due. ⤵️

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) The ending is WAY too abrupt, but also adorable. All the praise for my May #DoubleSpin + 1966 pick for #192025. @TheAromaofBooks @Librarybelle 2w

Ruthiella Love your paperback collection! 2w

LeahBergen I liked this one, too! 2w

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TheAromaofBooks This is a favorite of mine. One thing I love is how often Heyer writes about slightly older heroines - instead of her being 16 or 17 and yearning for love, she's in her late 20s and happily single. And the way these two hit it off as friends at first just delights me! 2w

Librarybelle Lovely paperback edition! 2w

BarbaraJean @Ruthiella @Librarybelle Thank you! Library book sales have provided so many treasures! 2w

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Yes, I loved that, too! This one could so easily have been about the niece, but Heyer chooses the less-conventional (and far more interesting) heroine instead. And the friends first vibe is my favorite (forever influenced by Anne and Gilbert!) 2w

CarolynM There are so many Heyer‘s I fear I‘ll never read them all, but I will look out for this one😊 2w

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merelybookish

Precious Bane | Mary Webb

I'm on a mission to complete the #192025 challenge! I have 8 prompts left. I have these four on the go in various formats. Then four more and I'm done!
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
@Librarybelle

TheBookHippie I‘ve got 7 left! 3w

merelybookish @TheBookHippie Yay! Exciting to be so close! 3w

Liz_M Impressive! I have 30ish left and some of the books are loooong. 3w

Librarybelle Yay!! That is incredible, @merelybookish and @TheBookHippie ! 3w

merelybookish @Liz_M Good luck! At least you have them planned out. I've been scrambling with the last 15-20 to find titles I want to read and are available. 3w

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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

I needed the extra day to refer to my #192025 plans to set my list for June. I've decided to try playing catch up on #foodandlit later, so I'm hoping to jump into Greenland with two books. Let's see what I should prioritize this month!

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w

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BarbaraJean

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

Relieved that June‘s #BookSpin numbers didn‘t add to my over-full June reading (too much 😂)—the #DoubleSpin pick is also my book club pick for the month. And the BookSpin landed on one of my #192025 spots, which I need to make a bit of progress on. I‘m hoping for a #BookSpinBingo right down the middle, with 3 free spots!

📘BookSpin: Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (a book from the 1920s—40s)
📗DoubleSpin: The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! Looks fantastic!! 1mo

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