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TheBookgeekFrau

Hattie Big Sky | Kirby Larson

#JuneSpecials #Prairie

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Loved this book🥰 1w

TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs Me too! 1w

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Amor4Libros

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir | Jennifer McGaha

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This one was not for me…

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Amor4Libros

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir | Jennifer McGaha

Current audiobook…Can‘t decide if the narrator‘s voice is boring me or not…

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DebinHawaii

The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week) | Robin Mather

#Bibliophile

I have some catch up to do. I always think of this book when thinking about a #LongTitle

The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally.

A woman in my foodie book club refused to read this one because she found the title “too ridiculously long.” 😂

A woman in

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Longest one I‘ve heard! 1mo

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Darklunarose

Little House Living: The Make-Your-Own Guide to a Frugal, Simple, and Self-Sufficient Life | Merissa A. Alink

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I do wish I had more energy to do things like this!

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Darklunarose

Little House Living: The Make-Your-Own Guide to a Frugal, Simple, and Self-Sufficient Life | Merissa A. Alink

To start tomorrow.

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Tamra

The Prairie Homestead Cookbook: Simple Recipes for Heritage Cooking in Any Kitchen | Jill Winger

Cranberry orange soda bread 😋 from the tagged book. Super easy, but don‘t expect it to be dessert sweet. My kids will wonder where the sugar is, same with scones. 🙃

Cathythoughts I love soda bread 🥰 2mo

LeahBergen That looks tasty! 2mo

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2mo

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Leftcoastzen

The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-to-Basics Guide | John Seymour

#CoverStories #Barn Spin wool , make cheese, make bricks ,cure bacon! My grandparents could make almost everything, I have always been interested in the old folkways. If we keep going the dystopian way we all may need books like this !

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

sarahbarnes I‘ve always been interested too. And agreed. 3mo

Eggs I can totally relate - my parents were born in 1910 and 1913, and were old-school self-sufficient! 3mo

Leftcoastzen @Eggs people didn‘t have much of a choice back then , no money to pay for it even if you could find people to do it 3mo

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Eggs @Leftcoastzen I used to make soap, candles, bread, yogurt, clothing, slipper socks, scarves, quilts, grow gardens, can/preserve and more. But it‘s really rough on the hands and wrists!!! 3mo

Leftcoastzen @Eggs Wow , that‘s amazing ! Also, that‘s why people got worn out at a younger age . There wasn‘t alternatives . I helped my grandmother can , and we made butter together in a large jar size churn . Even she said , bread takes too much time ! I‘ll just buy it at the grocery store. Once it was readily available!😁 (edited) 3mo

Eggs @Leftcoastzen Awesome 👏🏻 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir | Jennifer McGaha

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Whoa. That was A LOT. A lot more than I thought it was going to be. I'm sure part of that's on me for browsing available non-fiction audiobooks and choosing one based on title alone. But even within the realm of 'economic crisis leads to more rustic accommodations', that was a lot. 1/2

Robotswithpersonality 2/? I appreciated how the author reflected on the circumstances leading to the dire financial situation, it always feels like a good time to remind oneself of the importance of fiscal responsibility and the perils of a too cavalier approach to credit and loans, the danger in investing in real estate you can't really afford, though I did not see the 'didn't pay taxes, owe back taxes' part coming. Which kind of leads into a fairly major point 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? I didn't see coming.
McGaha appears to be a bit more clear-eyed at the time of writing this account, but the level to which she ceded financial matters to her husband (even if he is an accountant) sent a chill down my spine. Especially in light of the harrowing details related of her experience with domestic abuse by her first husband. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? The interval where she basically went off to try out a better paying job in the Midwest and seemed to have the first time to explore her own interests as an adult (first husband in college, first child soon after), the fact that it seemed more like the land and heritage of Appalachia called her back than the idea of her husband and the burgeoning farm, part of me wonders if a woman from a different generation, 5mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? less strongly connected to heteronormative relationship standards and generations of her family history would not have been happier elsewhere. Where the book ends doesn't leave me all that certain that she's happy, more like content with her lot, relieved it's not worse. It was a fascinating read for all that Gaha shared, the details of foreclosure, owing that much tax, the familiar tragedy of being underemployed 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/? because full positions in chosen field are not offered but low paying temporary ones are, learning to acknowledge how much she may have been relying on someone else to make choices, look after things for her, how her husband was actually fairing, figuring out caring for farm animals, and making at least some of your own essential foods, but I'm still getting 'has not grasped the consequences of acting without thinking' off of some of her 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/? behaviour and it's a little exhausting.
As a vegan reader the animal passages were rarely endearing. The attempted mental distancing from animals which are supposed to be primarily a source of food, even if they are not killed for meat, the effort to be philosophical about death and illness, the open admission of where McGaha and her husband mis-stepped and the animals paid for it, it meant that there weren't really any idyllic moments in the 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 8/8 Am I too naive for hoping for a better ending from a 'making the best of it' book? Perhaps. But as much as I can admire McGaha's writing, reflections, vulnerability, her connection to her family, I cannot see making the choices she made, even if I can fully empathize with the mistakes that led to a limited number of choices available.
⚠️Domestic abuse, animal death, recounting experience of seizure 5mo

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IselaKay

The Snow Child | Eowyn Ivey

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I love this book! I didn‘t expect the ending and it definitely made me sad—though I don‘t think it was a bad one, just unexpected. This is a beautiful story about love, grief, finding community, nature, and perseverance. Definitely recommend and I‘m glad I started this year with such a warm book.

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