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Slow but steady progress with #SeriesLove2025 . This is book 2 in the 5 book series set in England during WWII.

Howard excels at writing interesting characters that are fully human, with all the good and the bad that comes with that. And her balance is impeccable as well with this exceptionally large cast of an extended family and their servants.

The UK/US covers are a little bland IMO, so I have included some of the foreign editions for fun.

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I‘m on the home front in Britain in 1940. The extended Cazalet clan has taken up permanent residence on the Sussex estate. Told mostly from the perspective of the third generation of the family teenagers Louise, Clarey, and Polly who experience the uncertainty of life during wartime while also navigating the transition from childhood to adulthood.

#weekendreads

Busy weekend for me, but I do have all three on Kindle, so I might be able to squeeze a little in here and there on my phone. 🤞😬

My #Roll100 picks for April are pretty sweet. I already read Jazz back in February, so only have two “musts”.

Marking Time will work for #SeriesLove2025, as it‘s the second in the Cazalet Chronicles.

I own a physical copy of Little Bee and will make it work for #OffMyShelf

The 2nd book about the Cazalet‘s and we jump forward a year as Britain declares war on Germany. Food rations and food cards are the new normal as is bombs being dropped and the Blitz in London, but at the same time life goes on. This book focuses more on three of the kids in their teens trying to find out what to do with their life. And even when you don‘t like them because they‘re so self centered there‘s something oddly familiar about that as

I would do it just to find out what it was like. If you‘re interested in things, it doesn‘t matter too much if you turn out to be any good at them. It‘s doing it that‘s fun.

( talking about acting, but applicable to other hobbies too)

Coincidences. When your current read mentions a future buddy read here on Litsy

The second book in the Cazalet family and this is set at the beginning of WWII. I am enjoying this series, and I look forward to the next book.

Was feeling low, went to the library, found this while browsing, read twenty pages and instantly felt better.

Part one was one of my favourite books last year. Lovely to be back with the Cazalets. 🩵

1. Fairly frequently. The tagged is one I remember.
2. Generally, Fridays are my favorite and Mondays are the worst.
Thanks to @Eggs @Kdgordon88 @EadieB for the tags!
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Volume two of the Cazalet Chronicles doesn‘t disappoint. The focus this time is the Cazalet grandchildren as they navigate WWII and the change in family dynamics that comes with it. I loved that the child‘s-eye view gave us only snippets of what was going on with the adults we met in volume one. The writing is just so relaxing; comfortingly old-fashioned, yet not dated. Perfect comfort reading.

Second in her Cazalet Chronicle, and war has finally broken out, though life continues much as before for the Cazalet women and children, albeit with ever more noticeable privations and inconveniences.
The focus is very much on the younger generation, the girls in particular, and EJH brilliantly captures the mutual bafflement and resentment that is such a feature of relations between adolescents and their parents.

The Cazalet Chronicles continues! This installment focuses on the three eldest daughters, Louise, Clary, and Polly. Although it barely covers two years in time (1939-1941), so much is explored - duty to family and country, identity, marriage, friendship. I enjoyed this one even more than the first. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
And Edward is the absolute worst! 😡

The life of the cazalet family from 1940 to late 41.I love how dense yet absorbing the writing is, often flitting from characters views within a paragraph. Focusing on the 3 dtrs of the brothers, Louise ,clary, and polly we see thru their teenage eyes how war affects the rest of the family and the secrets and lies that are rife. I am now invested in the fates of these individuals who are infuriating but compelling, and I can't wait to read bk 3.

First time doing a #bookreport in a while. My reading is very divided these days between professional and pleasure. Can you tell which is which? 🤪
I'm loving The Break (🎧) and Marking Time (📗), book 2 in the Cazalet Chronicles.
I'm learning a lot from The Development of a Therapist (🎧) and It's Not Always Depression (📗)Hoping to actually finish a book this week!
@Cinfhen

I have been good lately about NOT buying books and ONLY reading books from my shelves.
However, I still like to peruse book websites and couldn't resist buying Book 2 of the Cazalet Chronicles when I found it on Boot Outlet. 💫

I love this family!
Ready for the third volume!

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Anche questa volta la Howard non mi ha delusa.Molte recensioni consideravano il secondo volume un pò lento, forse troppo storico. Invece il secondo conflitto mondiale è lo sfondo adatto per un'attesa perenne che si diffonde man mano a Home Place sotto varie sfumature: crescere, partire, tornare, nascere, conoscersi, riabbracciare, allontanarsi, o semplicemente vivere che già di per sé è un'eterna attesa.

Grazie ancora una volta Cazalet, a presto!

Sod it. I'm using another #Cazalets for #maybookflowers #peace. This is the second one in the series and the war is underway. You see the older children dealing with war, whereas in the first book you're focused more on the adults. I love this series so much I have all of them in paperback and several of them - like this one - on kindle as well so that I can read them any time I want.

Yep 😉