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I'm not one who reads multiple books at a time, but I'll make an exception for this one. Still reading Chernow's Washington with just under 300 pages to go. I'm working on changing my front yard to all garden. I need all the help I can get.

This has amazingly beautiful prose. Lovely nature descriptions. I could not put it down and read it in one sitting. Have some peaches ready. I only had peach jasmine jam from the advent calendar but it was a perfect pairing with the book. Highly recommend. #wintergames #teamevergreen @Clwojick

2,175 pts

Part 2 of 3: My favorites from the 144 books I read (in no particular order). I don‘t include rereads. I‘d love to hear your favorites!

6) A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell
7) Throne of Glass series
8) The Once and Future King by T.H. White
9) A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
10) Go As a River by Shelley Read

Sally Urwin is a 4‘ 10” former corporate marketer who became a farmer‘s wife when she married Steve a sheep farmer based in Northumberland) and started writing a blog recounting her experiences. This entertaining book that reinforces how difficult farming is both physically and emotionally (made worse by the perilous economics within the industry) is based on some of Urwin‘s blog entries and tracks a year of living on the farm.

While Hotel of Secrets was a close second 5⭐️, this saga from a debut author completely stole my heart.♥️ Beautiful writing, achingly real characters, evocative and emotional. Simply loved.

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This book started off as nice distraction from the winter cold I am trying to conquer but by the end my heart was all in a tangle and all I wanted was one more chapter.

4 ⭐ This book is in the title. Thank of farmer. It goes through various things that farmers may do and crops they might grow. It covers grains and milk, but also sheep for sweaters and trees for honey and maple syrup. What I particularly like about this, it shows all types of farmers. From big farms in the middle of nowhere to small city farms or hydroponics farms in warehouses and it also shows a variety of farmers.

Whole heartedly recommend this beautiful book about love, family, sacrifice, and the natural world. The narrator, Torie, is 17 when her story begins and it is a gorgeous, heartbreaking and redemptive story and I LOVED every second of it. Wayyyyyy better than Where the Crawdads Sing.
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There was too much explanation and wordy processing of hardship and emotion in this book. The characters at times sound like amateur psychologists, which is less effective than if the characters' inner lives were revealed more organically. I do, however, appreciate the exploration of home, belonging, and family, and I really enjoyed the peach orchard parts. The book has reminded me that I want to visit Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.