Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another

Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another | Ellen Stimson

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I really, really wanted to love this book. I was so excited. But Ellen came across as over-privileged and self absorbed. The storytelling failed to suck me in and I found myself trying to get through this as quickly as possible so I could move onto more interesting books. The end was a bit abrupt, though the sweet notes to pets were heartwarming. Disappointing all around.

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Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another | Ellen Stimson

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After falling in love with Vermont on a vacation, Ellen Stimson and her family move from St. Louis to a small town, Dorset. They then decide to buy the town‘s country store, a fixture of the community, and make one incredible mistake after another.

I understand how this book has gotten some negative reviews. You can‘t help but shake your head at some of their mistakes and feel a bit bad for the townspeople, but I found the stories very humorous.

Dolly Sounds like my kind of book - stacked! 5y

CoffeeCatsBooks @dolly She even includes some recipes at the end. 5y

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Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another | Ellen Stimson

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Stimson & her family move to a small town in Vermont, bring a contractor and crew from St. Louis to remodel their home, buy the local country store on a whim and run it into the ground & generally upset the locals. There was definitely humor in here and her sections on what makes Vermont so special were beautiful, but I was more annoyed with her than anything else. Rich people moving to “quaint” towns and then trying to change them annoy me.

Suet624 There were some great 1-star reviews on Goodreads that really made me chuckle. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17591643-mud-season 6y

MicheleinPhilly Well at least those reviews were fun. 6y

802Librarian One of my summer library patrons is like this. The three months he‘s here he spends telling me how to run the library. 🙄🙄 (edited) 6y

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LauraBeth Agree with @MicheleinPhilly - the one ⭐️ reviews were fun to read. 😂 @NHLibrarian 🙄 he sounds throat-punch worthy 6y

rockpools Wow, that sounds bad! Every so often we get people moving into pretty villages down here, and complaining to the council because the church bells make too much noise. She sounds like one of them! 6y

802Librarian @LauraBeth 😆 Definitely. He also complains that he can‘t have bookshelves in his Florida home because most of the walls are windows looking at the ocean 🙄🎻 6y

Suet624 @MicheleinPhilly @laurabeth I was trying to read those reviews out loud to a friend of mine and I was laughing so hard I often couldn‘t finish the sentences. 6y

Suet624 @NHLibrarian isn‘t it just ridiculous? Why do people want to be so impactful on others? 6y

Suet624 @RachelO Yes! Exactly! 6y

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