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#weekendreads

📕Finish up Three Day Road for #OhCanada

📗Continue The Woods in Winter for #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

📘Continue Nevada for #OffMyShelf “orange cover”

📙Maybe finish Civil to Strangers for #10beforetheEnd

Happy Halloween 🎃
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#FurrowedMiddlebrowClub readers!
Reminding y'all that our last title in 2025 is the tagged in November. I've started it and I will say, if you are a dog lover, you will appreciate it.
#JusticeforMrJones&JimJams (!)
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Happy Halloween 🎃 #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub readers! Reminding y‘all that our last title in 2025 is the tagged in November. I‘ve started it and I will say, if you are a dog lover, you will appreciate it. #JusticeforMrJones&JimJams 🐶!

Read at your own pace and make sure to tag us in your review and any related posts.

This buddy read is open to anyone. If you would like to be added to or removed from the tag list, say the word.

@LitsyEvents

I'm somewhat behind with the #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub schedule but finally finished this one. I did enjoy following the interactions of the villagers, even if most of the characters were thoroughly unpleasant!

#192025 #1952 @Librarybelle
#HauntedShelf #ScreamTeam
#OneSnacktoRuleThemAll #AllThingsApple
#BookSpinBingo
#ISpyBingo (cosy vibes )
#PumpkabooHunt (medium)

@ImperfectCJ @Bookwormjillk @TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper

I have been sloooowly reading this for a couple weeks and I am STRUGGLING y'all! I'm only about halfway through (I've just experienced the Ram Fair- and the pinching of the Squib- which was right after the episode of the Miss Pringles and the goat at Jed's house) and I just don't think I'm feeling it. I know you all ended up feeling it was a low pick by the end but I think I'm going to stop here. 🫣

#FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

I‘ve finally finished our #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub pick. It was a lowish pick for me (is that a real rating? 😆). Like @quietjenn said, I went in with low expectations and it wasn‘t as bad as I thought it would be. And her work definitely doesn‘t have the charm of her neighbour, DE Stevenson … as @CarolynM said! You‘ve all pretty much summed up my thoughts on this book (and that‘s what I get for chiming in late 😆).

My expectations for this one were pretty low, based on other #furrowedmiddlebrowclub readers. It helped, so I think I ended up liking it better (or perhaps disliking it less) than many, but it's certainly not going to be a favorite. Lots of -isms at play. Really wish Peggy had been written older and Ronald had faced some consequences...

Although her experience was much more foreboding, something like this might have been what Jo-an was doing when she ate the apple in front of the mirror. Poor thing—she died from her association with Ronald Graham, but no consequences for him.

The only male I could like unreservedly was Tara. 🐶

#FurrowedMiddleBrowClub

Although Molly Clavering gets compared to DE Stevenson, on the strength of this book, at least, her work is darker and less charming. I found it difficult to be enthusiastic about either of the romances because both men engaged in some bad behaviour towards the women early in their acquaintance (in one case one particularly unforgivably). I liked the Susan‘s rejected suitor best of all of them. A low pick. #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

Pictured are Cheviots. I thought they were trees until I looked them up. 🙊🐑

Occasionally I have trouble with the classism and conservative attitudes in our #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub titles and this was one of those times.

The male romantic leads are older than their female counterparts and it‘s subtly implied they should be their masters. I didn‘t find the bits meant to be funny humorous and often it felt quite mean spirited. Overall just OK.