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The Practice House
The Practice House | Laura McNeal
14 posts | 7 read | 1 reading | 33 to read
Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna lives with her sister and aunt in small-town Scotland in 1929. The girls are mostly stuck at home completing their aunt s chores, utterly bored. When Aldine s sister meets an American Mormon missionary and moves to New York with him, Aldine makes the trip as well, with the promise of a job. Feeling restless and out of place living with her sister and brother-in-law, Aldine answers an advertisement soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in rural Kansas. What she doesn t realize is that in the Midwest, farms have already begun to fail. Schools don t have enough money either to pay or house teachers, so Aldine must live with the family of the married man who advertised for a new teacher: Ansel Price. But just as Aldine begins to settle into her new life in the Great Plains, she and Ansel fall in love despite their best intentions, and Aldine s future is suddenly put in jeopardy. Laura McNeal s novel is a monumental love story that is, like Aldine McKenna herself, deeply human and truly unforgettable. "
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AnnaClark
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"...the efforts of Charity Sedgewick to keep Aldine and Leenie, now nineteen and twenty, from falling in love at the wrong time with the wrong person and their fear of waiting until it was too late made for a combustible situation.”

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mimi07abdi
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This book was so different from what I expected. Now that I've read it I can't really remember what I had imagined it to be about. But, it is an exceptional story and very well written. The characters are colorful and I felt like I knew each one of them intimately. I'm definitely going to read more of her books.

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suvata
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Night, night fellow book lovers.🌜
Tomorrow I start The Practice House. 📚

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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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Read 9 books in June The Best: The Practice House (#1) The Good House. The Great: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The One in a Million Boy. The Good: Mr Mac and Me and The Golden Legend. The Disappointing: The Lying Game (#1) The Vanishing Futurist and Americanah.

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lmcd
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Really enjoyed this book.

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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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While The Harvey House maybe would have been more suitable a title, maybe? But The Practice House would work too. Anyway - fantastic story. Great and satisfying ending.

Texreader Glad you liked it! Yea, the title was a mystery to me since that seemed such a minute part of the book 7y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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Cheers everyone! Happy Friday night! 🥂

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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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Oh! This one is fairly chunky! Only 7-days to read from the library so I need to get started on this one before anything else. Hope it's a great read!

Texreader I loved this book. I sailed right through it. 7y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @Texreader excellent!! Thank you so much for letting me know! 😊 7y
Texreader @Penny_LiteraryHoarders I really felt like it captured the era. I hope you like it as much. 7y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders @Texreader I'm sailing through too! I'm really liking it a lot!! 7y
Texreader @Penny_LiteraryHoarders so glad to hear that. Thanks for letting me know! 7y
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Texreader
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At a fellow Litsian's suggestion, I sent the author an email letting her know how much I loved the book. She emailed me back! Obviously a wonderful #blameitonlitsy. I wish I remembered who made the suggestion so I can send a happy shout-out to you! 🎉🎉🎉. Ps: I made a plug for Litsy to her. Maybe she'll join us!

Varshitha Wow!! 8y
Suet624 Was it @Eamann who suggested it? 8y
Texreader @Suet624 yes it was! I found his post called Homework! Thanks for tracking him down. Thank you @Eamann for the assignment! Awesome idea! I will try to do it regularly. 8y
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Cinfhen So wonderful 💕 8y
Ericmanciniwriter Oh wow - this makes me really happy @Suet624 @Texreader. I hope this catches on 8y
Reviewsbylola Love this! I'm sure your email meant a lot to her! 8y
CrowCAH It was @Eamann ? He gave us "homework" lol 8y
Smangela I sent Jude Devereaux a message on GoodReads once and she responded! It was so awesome! 8y
Texreader @Eamann @Suet624 We need a hashtag! Thoughts? 8y
Suet624 @Eamann @Texreader Perfect hashtag. 8y
Ericmanciniwriter I'll post about it tonight @Suet624 @Texreader 8y
Texreader @Eamann I like it!! 8y
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Texreader
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Just finished this one and it is a ?????book. After a couple of middle-of-the-nights of either insomnia or "I just had to read this book" I spent this evening finishing it. It's just terrific even to the extent you can guess what's coming. It's slow and methodical but I never once wanted to quit reading. It's just that well-written. Read it and enjoy. I shall now reward myself with ice cream. #readandeat #marchintoreading

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Texreader
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If you haven't chosen your free Amazon prime book yet I have to highly recommend this one. I'm only 15% into it but it is extraordinarily well written and even though a bit slow I don't want to put it down. I feel I've met the characters in person.

JessClark78 Oh good. I chose that one. 8y
RobinW I just made this my March selection. Thanks! 8y
Ncostell That's good to hear, I picked this one as well. 8y
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rubyslippersreads I chose this too. 8y
kimdegener This is also my pick. Sounds intriguing. 8y
Texreader @JessClark78 @RobinW @Ncostell @rubyslippersreads @kimdegener I was up from midnight to past 2 am last night because I couldn't put it down. Exhausted at work today. She knows how to end a chapter so you have to keep going. 8y
RadicalReader @Texreader nothing better than getting swept into a novel for hours and looking up thinking how much time has gone by?!! 8y
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sprainedbrain
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Excited about my Kindle First pick for March!

Laura317 I came close to picking that. I ended up with The Last Paradise. 8y
rubyslippersreads This looks great! I think it'll be my pick too. 8y
sprainedbrain @Laura317 That was the other one I was considering too! Let me know how you like it. 8y
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Rhondareads I picked it also😀 8y
Samwise_Gamgee I picked this one too 8y
Garabrandtreviews I am still considering, but that one looks good! 8y
Jas16 I picked that one too 8y
bookhoarder513 I went with this one as well. 8y
JessClark78 I chose this one too. 8y
booksandsympathy I chose this book too. 8y
Texreader Me too. I picked it as well. Looks good 8y
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