Picture books, the last refuge of the desperate #URC participant. 😂 I really liked this though. It's imaginative and dryly funny and the author had feet on the ground.
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so-soWhat a shame! The first quarter of this book is sooo good. I loved reading about down trodden Eve and the miners in Edwardian Yorkshire. The writing is superb and gritty; then it took a left turn into Hallmark territory… she‘s an amazing cook, opens her own bakery which does excessively well, she gets lucky break after lucky break, every bloke that meets her loves her yawnnn. And there are way too many characters. Cheese fest!!
pickThe second in the Netherwood series. A really enjoyable continuation of the stories that intertwine within the Great Hall and the local community. Fantastically described and real in places, with great characters and the sort of world you want to sink into and be part of.
pickThis has everything I love about Catherine Cookson style books mixed with Downton Abbey. Brilliantly realised and fully real characters with wonderful stories that weave and progress with a good pace. Sanderson's descriptions and prose are wonderfully pleasing to read. Loved it.
pickWould you believe a story about a 1913 copper mine strike could be both compelling and tragic? The author pulls it off in this great book. Calumet, MI is a company-owned town whose miners are endangered by the mine's policies. They form a union and stage a strike. It was hard to read in places and some of the characters made me mad, but overall it was outstanding. I'm glad I finally read it.
Putting “Cujo” on the back burner for a while. I want to finish Emile Zola‘s Rougon-Macquart series. “Germinal”. #Ètienne_Lantier #miners #exploitation #outrage #strike
I know I ran into another shanty scene somewhere recently, but it probably wasn't anything you'd want to read anyway. 5mo