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Centique
The Light Years | Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Pickpick

I finally got around to reading this and LOVED it. Such a huge cast of characters but each one unique. I do love a book that when you change POVs you get insights that change your initial view. I have to say though one man did a thing & Lord I stomped around the house desperate to murder the guy. Fictionally murder him but still.
If you havent heard of this it‘s set just before WW2 with a very extended family gathering for the summer ⬇️

Centique at the old homestead. You get a little of every adult and child, their worries, their passion, their strengths and weaknesses. Just immersion into a complicated quilt of family life - slow and detailed and character driven - with impending war driving extra tension. 4d
Centique I think @LeahBergen maybe you put this on my radar? 💕 4d
Ruthiella I too loved this. I read the second book earlier this year and it was just as good. I have the whole series on my e-reader. I just need to make time to finish it. 4d
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LeahBergen I LOVE Elizabeth Jane Howard!! I‘ve been working my way chronologically (as she wrote them) through all of her books and am almost up to reading this one. I can‘t wait! I‘ve read 7 or 8 of her books now? 4d
LeeRHarry I really enjoyed this series. 😊 4d
Centique @Ruthiella oh good, i am so glad to hear that, it will be great to get into the next one soon! 4d
Centique @LeahBergen wow! I just had a look and she does have a great list of books I am sure I‘ll enjoy too. I think I must have seen you read one of her other books and just assumed it was in the series. But now i am hooked by her, it will be the start of a long fandom im sure! 4d
CarolynM I‘ve had a copy of this for a while (I think it was @Cathythoughts who put it on my radar) but haven‘t got around to it yet. I can see I‘ll have to make more effort! I‘ve only read one Elizabeth Jane Howard and I did love it. Have you read this one @LeahBergen ? (edited) 2d
LeahBergen @CarolynM I haven‘t got to that one yet but it‘s waiting on my shelves! @shawnmooney and I have been reading through all of her books in publication order and that one is one book away. 😄 1d
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JenlovesJT47
All Day at the Movies | Fiona Kidman
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I got behind on posting for #HaikuADay but here is mine from Saturday. Went to see the movie Sinners with my dad (was amazing, highly recommended!).

#haiku
#poetry

🍿🎞️🍿🎞️🍿🎞️🍿🎞️🍿🎞️🍿🎞️🍿🎞️🍿🎞️🍿

JenlovesJT47 Let me know if I missed tagging anyone! 2mo
TheBookHippie Oh fun!!!! 2mo
TheSpineView I still love going to the movies. Wish my Dad was alive to enjoy going with me. 2mo
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mom2bugnbee Saw that movie with my adult daughter who has a degree in film studies. I learn so much when discussing films with her. This one was excellent. 2mo
lil1inblue Love this! It makes me want to go to the movies. 💓 2mo
JenlovesJT47 @TheBookHippie @TheSpineView @mom2bugnbee @lil1inblue 💜💜💜 The movie was excellent! There‘s a sequence in the middle that will take your breath away. 2mo
dabbe What a beautiful memory/activity that we all can relate to. 💜💚💜 2mo
ElizaMarie Yes!!!! I have been telling everyone they must see this movie. I am not a huge “music person” but —- the music in this one was so powerful! 2mo
JenlovesJT47 @ElizaMarie yes, it was so good!! 2mo
peaKnit I just watched the trailer, wow! 2mo
DebinHawaii Perfect! I miss the movies! 🍿🐝💛 2mo
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Ruthiella
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Pickpick

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.

TheSpineView Well done!🤩📖 2mo
Ruthiella @TheSpineView Thanks! 😊 2mo
Suet624 Those covers! 💕💕 2mo
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Ruthiella @Suet624 I know! They are all so colorful! 😍 (edited) 2mo
Andrew65 Excellent 🎉🎉🎉 2mo
Ruthiella @Andrew65 Thanks! 🙏 2mo
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Ruthiella
Marking Time | Elizabeth Jane Howard
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#whereareyoumonday
#roll100

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.

LeeRHarry Loved this series! 😊 2mo
Ruthiella @LeeRHarry It is so good! It‘s been a couple years since I read the first one but it was so easy to pick right up again and immerse myself in the storylines and characters. 2mo
BookNAround I loved this series so much. 2mo
Ruthiella @BookNAround My picking it up was definitely a #blameitonlitsy occasion! 😅 2mo
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Ruthiella
Marking Time | Elizabeth Jane Howard
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#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. 🤞😬

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Not all the time, or often—just now and then—the light hits the pieces of colored glass just right, and for what may be just a fleeting moment, everything looks beautiful. If a person doesn‘t ask too many questions about what happened yesterday or what‘s going to happen next. If she can just look at this one brief moment in time, without asking for more 🫧

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BoleyBooks
The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese
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Imagen_leigh
The Covenant of Water | Abraham Verghese
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Bailedbailed

I‘ve been trying to read this for almost a month now. I just can‘t finish it. It‘s not that it wasn‘t a good storyline, it just wasn‘t thrilling/captivating enough for me. I might come back to it later in life, but for now this is where I‘m gonna stop and move on to something more enjoyable.

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Texreader
Cashelmara | Susan Howatch
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60-year-old Englishman Edward DeSalis marries 18-yo Marguerite, an American girl he meets during a trip to the states just prior to the civil war. He owns several homes but the one she likes the least is Cashelmara, a great estate in Ireland. The story begins with Edward then Marguerite and continues to be told by their descendants and their significant others. This is an epic story (700+ pages) of the DeSalis family that suffers some tragic ⬇️

Texreader acts, including murders of both good and evil characters. At the same time the early English generation treats the Irish in much the way one would expect—as lesser people, mere peasants—although that viewpoint changes significantly over time. There‘s also some Scottish characters and how they are seen by the English and the Irish is very interesting. This is quite the saga. Very long but certainly kept my interest throughout. #foodandlit #Ireland 3mo
BethM The cover is beautiful! 3mo
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇮🇪💚 3mo
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Deblovestoread
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Pickpick

This follow up to Count the ways was everything I didn‘t know I needed until I started reading. Between the two books is a family saga with all the ups and downs, wins and losses, etc. Told in mostly short chapters it is a fast read. Loved it!

Read for #TransRightsReadathon. My first choice was Meet Cute Diary which I had to DNF as it was way to YA for my 65 year old brain 😂

Amiable It was so good! 3mo
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