Once Upon a River | 
pickThis book centres around story telling with the theme of the river flowing strongly through it. A tale of discovery and loss, love and cruelty and the mystery of life. I thought it was enchanting. The depth of the characters drew me in and I was kept guessing until the threads of the story started to come together as one. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I liked this book. Setterfield again wrote a compelling turn of the century mystery testing and questioning what makes a family. She takes on the role of story and why humans tell stories and how we tell stories in this wonderful book. She rubs folklore up again science winding you deeper and deeper into the story until like the characters, truth and fiction is hard to place.
pickI can honestly say that to begin with I really struggled with this. Once I got past the half way mark it was a whole different ball game! I started to enjoy it a lot more. There are a lot of characters and multi faceted stories all intertwined so at times it is hard to keep up if not focused. All in all it turned out to be an enjoyable read and I am definitely pleased I saw this through to the end. #onceuponariver #justfinished #threestars
Lazy chilly Sunday Morning in bed trying to finish this book! I have been so unfocused this past week! #sundayreads #lazymorning #chilling #gottofinishthis #onceuponariver
pickI was FINALLY able to finish this one! When I started it I was really enjoying it but set it aside for something else...and didn‘t go back for months 😱. I finished it as an audiobook and it was so touching. I loved how the story mixed the supernatural with the realistic and how so many of the characters connected to each other in unexpected ways. Definitely recommend! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
pickThis was a decent book but a little slow in the middle. I liked the ending. A young child is rescued from the river and there are numerous people who would claim her for their own. The family with the kidnapped child, the grandfather whose missing a granddaughter, the woman missing a sister, and a nurse who would just like to have the child. Who is the child? Where did she come from?
pickThis was a decent book but a little slow in the middle. I liked the ending. A young child is rescued from the river and there are numerous people who would claim her for their own. The family with the kidnapped child, the grandfather whose missing a granddaughter, the woman missing a sister, and a nurse who would just like to have the child. Who is the child? Where did she come from?
I love that fall means semi-annual library book sales, although some area libraries only do them once a year around here l. At any rate, there are plenty of book sales to be found and we went to our first of the season yesterday! I‘m happy with the books I found but there was one in particular that caused me to audibly gasp in excitement. Can you guess which one? I think I‘ve made this very easy for you. 😉
Have you read any of these?
Thankyou so much for the tag @Tanisha_A ❤
@batsy I tag you to post 7 covers you love for 7 days. No explanation needed. And also use the tags. You up for it? 🙂
#covercrush #7days7covers #day1
Started this one as well.
pick📖 𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐀𝗪𝐀𝐘 📖
𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐔𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 by 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 combines folklore, science, magic, and myth. It sweeps readers along on a current of charmingly eloquent storytelling as powerful as the flow of a river. 🌟🌟🌟🌟
The generous folks at Simon & Shuster have provided a copy for me to give to a lucky U.S. resident.
Enter by midnight PDT tomorrow night, Sunday, September 8: https://tinyurl.com/y6og4n2q
pickSo good. It's been awhile since I've read a book that has sucked me in like this one! Kind of dark fairy tale, kind of mystery, all kinds of amazing prose. With limited time to read, I rarely want to reread books, but as soon as I finished this I wanted to start it over.
1. Loving it so far! Can't wait to finish but don't want it to end!
2. Sleep??
3. Chocolate Chip cookie dough
4. Used to play piano but haven't in years
5. Will do 😉
#friyayintro
@howjessreads
Slow vendor events are great places to catch up on some reading. Still loving this book! #ireadanywhere
I'm about halfway through this book and loving it! It's been awhile since I've read anything that has me as hooked as this book does! Who is the little girl who came back from the dead? Why has she lost the ability to speak? So many questions I can't wait to find out the answers! #unputdownable
1. Pasta. Piles of it. In any form.
2. My weighted blanket. ❤️❤️❤️
3. Just started tagged book.
4. @Lovesbooks87
#wondrouswednesday
pickQuiet, cosy, meandering, sometimes melancholy, always charming. Another fine yarn from Diane Setterfield - a bit of a shaggy dog story, but the sort you can curl up with and enjoy on a wet afternoon by the fire.
I was listening to this audio book and walking at the arboretum near my house when I passed 15,000 last week! 🤓🤓🤓
Loved this book, and it‘s really all about the river, and the tale involves quite a lot of crying as well.....
#crymeariver
#ayupaugust
*Joe Cocker was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in 1944.
pickHonestly, I liked the premise of this book -- the role of storytelling and how it shapes us. But this was also a book that I could have put down and left unfinished (had I not been desperate to reach the midway point in my Goodreads challenge 🙈). I wish there had been more about the Quietly as well.
pickThis book was sooo good. I loved the dreamlike atmosphere and the unique characters. Pick this up if you like magical realism or historical fiction.
The photo is of Henry Taunt, a Victorian photographer that inspired one of the characters.
Four months ago I had surgery to repair my broken leg. Yesterday I finally was able to move back into my own home. I‘ve still got more recovery ahead-I‘m walking with a cane and wearing a knee brace-and am told it will be another six months before my leg is back to ”normal”. Emotionally I‘m all over the place, but grateful to be back in my cozy environment with all my books again. This title is just what I‘m needing, a fairytale escape!
pickNearly made my 70k steps target for the week, and we had Sports Day at work yesterday so had a bit of a run around there!
Only one book read this week. Lovely cover and it's beautifully written, though needed a bit of an edit!
#bfc @wanderinglynn
pickA slow start for a Setterfield novel, but it picked up significantly during the second half. Not as good as her previous works, IMO, but I will continue to read her.
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pickI would have liked this more had it been either:
🧞♀️More fantastical or more filled with folklore/magic
OR
🌊 All realistic explanations for story events.
I enjoyed it overall, but I feel as if the amount of magic/fantasy suited the author‘s explanation of the plot, and that‘s it. I‘m not explaining this well enough...
real, real, real, real, real, real, and here‘s the NOT real part to explain it all! 🤨
Still a pick! (If you got this far 😉.)
pickWhat a wonderful book! Diane Setterfield did not disappoint. Set in the 19th century England along the Thames, it‘s a tale of a mysterious appearance of a small child who awakens from death. Her identity and the stories of the community weave together and entangle themselves in the question of what is real and what is imagined.
so-soMostly a pick but I thought it was entirely too long. The story of a drowned girl brought back to life connects several families in a river community, all dealing with their own losses. I loved the way it all tied up at the end, though. A rich story with many memorable characters.
I'm enjoying this, I really am... but it's SO DRAWN OUT!!!!! This could have easily been 3 or 4 hours shorter...
#30JuneBooks day 22 #Audiobook
I wasn‘t a huge fan of audiobooks, but earlier this year I saw a review of the audio version of the tagged book and decided I had to get it. A beautiful, atmospheric book read by the incomparable Juliet Stevenson (who could read a telephone directory and keep you hanging on to every word), it‘s a magical combination.
So thankful for all the thoughtful items @EH2018 picked out for me !! I love everything!! Star Wars! Star Trek! Fantasy!!! A slytherin pin !! And the quotes on the bookmarks are great!! Thank you for taking the time to find out my likes and putting together an epic and fun package! Blessed Solstice! ❤️❤️❤️ also Salem wanted to be included. 🖤
#summersantagoespostal #summersolsticebookexchange
pickA child is found, miraculously ends up alive, and multiple people think they have a claim to her.
Needed a new audio so I went through my #Libby tags and found this one, I think from #Booked2019 #FairyTaleRetelling.
pickReally interesting book full of great characters, tragedy, love, murder, mystery, the whole shebang.
@JSW thank you so much for this amazing #mysterymessageswap package! I can't tell you how excited I was opening it! I'm psyched to be able to add all 3! of these titles I've been wanting to my library and explore all the fabulous notes and treats you choose for me! 🙏😍
1. Once Upon a River, Kid Gloves and Where the Crawdads Sing
2. A Delicate Balance
3. Morgenstern‘s The Starless Sea
4. Yes, I finished the last two Shakespeare plays I hadn‘t read yet. Now I‘ve read all of his plays!
#ThursdaySurvey @laurenslibrary
pick1) I‘ve read so many good books this year, but if pressed I‘ll call Once Upon a River (Diane Setterfield) my favorite. An amazing audio experience - magical & atmospheric.
2) Melmoth by Sarah Perry. After loving The Essex Serpent so much, this one came across as scattered and just okay.
3) About to dive into Peter Heller‘s The River and so exited!
4) This is the 1st year I didn‘t set a goal & I‘ve read way more this year than ever!
pickAn interesting story about storytelling, and we aren‘t sure whose narrative is true.
A child, assumed dead, breathes again. Who‘s child is she? The kidnapped child returned to wealthy parents? The child drowned by a woman abandoned by her lover? The grandchild of a couple that have raised a (mostly) loving family? The sister of the Rector‘s housekeeper?
My first book by Satterfield; won‘t be my last. This woman can really write!
bailedI tried. I'm just going to have to choose another book with a great cover for the #mmdchallenge #mmdreading
pickSeems like everyone has been reading this over the past year. Since The Thirteenth Tale was a favorite, thought I‘d take a chance. The story was certainly magical realism, a fable-like perspective of deluded relationships, twisty, with multiple perspectives weaving together. An interesting read and one that has great atmosphere.
Not one of my most favorite reads of the year but I‘m glad I read it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
