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Enjoyed snuggling up with this one #pick

Is book gluttony a thing? ✋🏾

@Helen19 oh I am so THRILLED!!! I‘m going to start it after dinner!!! Thank you so much. What a wonderful surprise !!!

Too sad and depressing...

I mostly enjoyed it but it took me so long to finish which probably didn‘t help. Maybe lockdown wasn‘t the right time to read this one!

Reading for a challenge category: a book with antonyms in the title

#Movember #girlgonewild

Peggy is 8 yrs old when her survivalist father takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, they begin to make a life for themselves.
When Peggy begins to unravel the series of events that brought her to the woods, she discovers the strength she needs to get back home and find the mother she thought she‘d lost.

#RedRoseSeptember Trying to use books from my TBR all month...let‘s see how long that lasts😜A survivalist father takes his young daughter out into the woods claiming the world has ended #PoorMisguidedFool but what happens when Peggy discovers her father‘s betrayal. Lots of mixed reviews keep putting me off from reading this book. #SoManyBooksSoLittleTime #MaybeOneDay

I kinda wish this book had only had #8daysaweek instead of endless days! 🙄 such a bleak and depressing book! 👎🏻 #beatlemaynia

Peggy is eight years old when her father decides to take her into the wilderness to live without contact with other people. Living off the land, eating squirrels and mushrooms, Peggy‘s life is hard and sad but also beautiful and free. Until it isn‘t. Until she wants something different and finds she is brave and strong .... and missing lots of vital nutrients in her diet. Interesting and beautiful but also heartbreaking and the ending is painful.

8-year-old Peggy lives #alone in the woods with her father. This could be an idyllic and fun situation, but you quickly get the sense, that everything isn‘t as it should be. Is Peggy and her father really alone? Has The World ended like Peggy‘s father told her?

Thanks for a great challenge @BarbaraBB and @Cinfhen 👏👏

#HeatofJuly

An interesting premise with some engaging chapters, yet this story dragged and became somewhat unrealistic towards the end. I needed more so it‘s 2 stars for Claire Fuller‘s “Our Endless Numbered Days”.

My full review is avaliable to read on my blog, go have a look if you're interested! 📚

I read this for my book club. I found that I didn‘t really warm to any of the characters and that it dragged out in places yet the ending felt rushed. An interesting idea for a novel but didn‘t really do it for me.

A couple days ago, both books showed up!

My round one book returned with all the comments from @Marmie7 @aroc @MrsGreen As much as the subject matter was difficult, I‘m giving this one a “pick” 3/5⭐️ Shocking and heartbreaking at times.

Round 2 is underway and @thebluestocking sent me Just Mercy (really looking forward to it) @StephanieGeiser @LikelyLibrarian

How do you like the cute little 🍩 from @Marmie7 and 🦊 from @thebluestocking ?

So far so good!! Enjoying this quick read 😊

Thanks for the tag @Birdsong28 !
And for the game #audiobookinquiry @Chelleo
1. On the tube
2. Mostly library. Can imagine I'll try out audible soon. Also i recommend an app (May be UK only?) called Google Opinion Rewards. By filling in surveys (3 or 4 questions each) you earn money which you can spend in the Google play store (so looking at buying an audio book!)
3. 1.25
4. None really though Lilian boxfish was great!
5. Enjoying tagged book

Did not like it

Hmm.
Appreciated the prose, found the descriptions of the forest and natural world beautiful, liked that there wasn't too much analysis made of what happened.
I didn't like the premis of the story. I didn't really know what the storyline was as it was an impulse selection, and wish I'd looked in more detail.
The descriptions do stay with me though, in detail.

I can't say too much about this without spoiling it for @rachaich who is still reading this for this months book club but it I had mixed thoughts about it. No disrepect to Ms Fuller, she's done a womderful job with her debut novel, but for me, it felt just that. A good first attempt but lacking in parts. And I felt the end was disappointing.

Book club choice for January @wormkim
Hoping it's got the balance of hermit style life and escaping the world, with the responsibility of parenting in society...

Finished it early and thought I better send it out before the holidays. It's on its way @MrsGreen !
Interesting read @wife. @Marmie7 @suvata

#LPMBC #GroupR

Finished early so I thought I better get it out before the holiday rush. It's on its way @MrsGreen .
Interesting read @wife. @Marmie7 @suvata

#LPMBC #GroupR

Waiting for the snow to start in South Jersey. ❄❄ I will be working on my #LPMBC #GroupR before the holiday prepping starts!

Day #one of #LMPBC, I think the title kind of works too for #NovemberByTheNumbers. Feels weird to write in a book 📖...just sayin‘

#LMPBC #GroupR Since all of you have given the opportunity to view choices, I thought I should do the same. I‘m really excited to start! 👓📖🖊

Well I read this straight through in about 4 hours, so I would say it's pretty good! It reminds me a little of The Room, but with nature, and I felt more captivated by the plot and the prose in this one. Lots of surprises in this one and a twist I saw coming from a long way off that did not diminish its effect. All in all, I loved the experience of reading it--page turning but without cheap tricks. #autumnreads

Fantasy and forests say "fall reading" to me, so this book set in the wilderness seems like the perfect read for the first weekend in Autumn. I'm "currently reading" too many books, and can't imagine why I'm starting another, but here goes! And I might just be that cliche and read it with pumpkin spice tea. Fall is my favorite time of year!

Given a prompt for #intothewild, this book immediately came to mind. Unusual, wild, and mysterious - I still think about this book rather frequently. #BeastsGiveawayChallenge

What do you do, when your father believes there is no way to #savetheworld from going under, and therefore he takes you into the woods to live in a cottage without seeing other people. Also, you are eight years old. But, maybe, the more important question is, what do you do, when you find out it was all a lie, the world didn't go under. These questions are what this book is all about, and I was hooked from start to finish 👍

#AnditsAugust

I read this in 2 days, enjoyed the read and wasn't the ending I expected

Can't get much more rural than this. Beautifully written but the subject matter not an easy read. #ruralsetting #aprilbookshowers @RealLifeReading

A dreamy, delightful story of a father who takes his young daughter away to live in the wild. Beautifully written, a little long, but deeply compelling at the end.

The story drives it, the language never disappoints, engrossing and smart...I loved this book!

A lot of #FAuthors for #SpringFlingReading. 📚🌸

Dare to explore the woods in these #books set in forests: http://bit.ly/bwbforestbooks #2017ReadingChallenge

Next up... Lazy weekend reading with a cup of tea by my side.

In interesting idea poorly executed. Woeful pacing, a lack of rational character development and an ending that was both predictable and totally inappropriate. Infuriating.

How did I not read OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS by Claire Fuller until now? Huge mistake! I loved this story of an 8-year old girl, her survivalist father, and the nine years they spend in the wilderness. Brilliant! Now I'm even more excited to read Fuller's new book, SWIMMING LESSONS, out in February!

#currentlyreading this intriguing book about survivalists and family issues. Really well-written and fascinating so far.

It's a dark and horrifying story and It's not exactly #booksaboutnature but nature plays an important role. Daughter and survivalist father disappears for many years and they are struggling to survive in a lonely wooden cottage in the middle of a wild forest.

#readjanuary

Woah. Talk about a book with a twist you didn't see coming. Dang, y'all! This book is just a reader's dream.

Hoping to get through these books this month -- if things go better than I expect, I'll even try to finish Voyager as it's been on my shelf for nearly a year. I've read about 2/3 of it already. #januaryTBR

What a book! This is going to stay with me for a while, I think. The ending left me almost speechless! James was such a damaged character and to have done what he did to Peggy, despite his obvious mental health issues, is terrifying. I can't decide if I need a sequel to find out how Peggy gets on in life or if I need the safety of my imagination to think she coped well

Very excited to read this as I've heard lots of good things about it. The last line of the blurb on the back is.... And what happens when you stop believing in everything? What a question....