pick4 ⭐️Mom and I have endured some real duds in our recent buddy-read selections, so when we spun the wheel of our books we kept our fingers crossed that it would land, at last, on something we could truly enjoy.
It worked! A heartfelt, heartwarming account of one small town‘s efforts to bring big joy to hundreds of thousands of servicemen/women in WWII. Even with war as the background, this book was sweet, and a welcome reminder of human kindness.
#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs (thanks for the tag! 😍)
1. Isabel.
2. Huggy Bear, Caramel, Sal, George, Babs, Pete, Kate, Pippa
3. ANTONIA, SCARLETT, OPHELIA, ARWEN, EOWYN, GALADRIEL ...
Consider yourself tagged! 🤩
Birthday hall plus the tagged book which just so happened to arrive on my birthday from the Harvard first editions signed book subscription. My daughter and I are playing hooky from school and work to spa, eat fancy foods, and read 🥳
pickCentering around an eccentric historian‘s access to the MC‘s g-grandfather‘s journals, this look at history, ethics, family, myth, community, and spirituality is wrapped in a great story with elegant prose. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad. I highlighted many quotes, but didn‘t want to stop reading long enough to post them. Letter D for #litsyAtoZ, No 1 for #14books14weeks
#WhereAreYouMonday
I‘m in Nebraska with Alexandra Bergson and family as they try to farm and prosper while so many of their neighbors fail and move back to the cities to try their luck.
This is also the fourth book on deck for the #ShelfSweeper readathon. 😊
I read three bangers in a row but The Antidote was the best book this year, absolutely incredible. I personally did not enjoy The Long Island Compromise.
Just started this, which I picked up either at a used book sale or online through a used bookstore, I don't remember which. This was a 10th grade English class reading assignment that I didn't like but has called to me recently so I'm giving it another try. So far just a few pages in, I'm intrigued. Did you read this one, either for school or later in life?
so-soThis was interesting but not engaging. The characters resembled game pieces. If there was a plot, it was vague enough to escape notice. The author‘s descriptions of the dust storms were the most visceral and true of anything in the novel.
pickA tender read about homesteading on the raw prairie with all the challenges and heart that entailed. Strongly female centered story. These women weren‘t unique in their time, but rarely were so well represented in the period‘s contemporary fiction. I enjoyed in greatly reminding me of family histories of my own grandmother‘s.
