An Episode of Sparrows

An Episode of Sparrows: A Novel | Rumer Godden

Book fair time! Here‘s my haul. The selection was pretty decent this year, although it‘s definitely getting way more crowded (a lot of resellers, apparently).

LeahBergen Ooo, you got some nice ones! DE Stevenson, Brookner, Godden, Heyer! 👏👏 7mo

MaureenMc @LeahBergen I was pretty stoked at finding them. 😄 It‘s like a treasure hunt! 7mo

Suet624 So fun! 4mo

MaureenMc @Suet624 I look forward to it every year 😁 4mo

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merelybookish

An Episode of Sparrows: A Novel | Rumer Godden

#Top21of21. Lots of good reading this year. Loved all these books (even Matrix by Lauren Groff 😮 ).My most MOST favourites are An Episode of Sparrows; Ducks, Newburyport; The Street; Wayward, and I Am I Am I Am. Oh, and The Cazalet Chronicles and all the titles in Laurence's Manawaka series.🙂
Thanks for the tag @Ruthiella @Centique @Nute @Graywacke And thanks @Cinfhen for getting it going!

Graywacke 🦆🦆 !! And Nora Ephron was a voice. Fun list. 3y

vivastory Wonderful list! I have Ducks on my TBR for next year 3y

merelybookish Tagging people who have probably already been tagged. 🙂 @DrexEdit @quietjenn @LitStephanie @Melismatic @jewright @GatheringBooks @Hooked_on_books @BookwormAHN 3y

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Ruthiella I loved Ducks, Newburyport too! 🦆 🦆 3y

merelybookish @JamieArc I meant to tag you too! 🙂 3y

merelybookish @Graywacke Ephron is funny. And that's not easy! 3y

merelybookish @vivastory Thanks! Ducks is totally worth the effort! 3y

merelybookish @Ruthiella Reading Ducks is an experience! 3y

Megabooks I am is an all time fav of mine! 3y

LeahBergen I think I‘ll just cheat and add the Manawaka series to my list as one book 😆 3y

merelybookish @Megabooks It was so compelling! Like from the first encounter on! 3y

merelybookish @LeahBergen Haha, yes that was my intention too. Because they are all so good! 3y

Graywacke @merelybookish i think I deleted my adjective before I clicked “send”. ☺️. it was a positive one. She was a special voice - Nora Ephron. 3y

sarahbarnes Such a great list! So many of my favorites in here. ❤️ I‘m starting Wayward tonight! 3y

Liz_M 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆! 3y

merelybookish @sarahbarnes Thanks! Let me know what you think of Wayward! There are some flaws but I loved the main character. 3y

MaureenMc Fantastic list! 3y

merelybookish @Liz_M 😄 it's like being in a club! 3y

merelybookish @MaureenMc Thank you! Let's talk about Villy sometime! I feel like she got some redemption in the end, but I felt she was treated unfairly by the storyline. 3y

MaureenMc @merelybookish I 100% agree re: Villy! She did have a bit of a martyr complex, but it didn‘t seem fair how all of her family essentially abandoned her. 3y

Crazeedi I enjoyed cazelet chronicles! Nice list! 3y

merelybookish @MaureenMc Thank you! She was made out it be such a pill and it seemed cruel..and I didn't like what happened to Diana's character either. She was having an affair but she wasn't evil but then she married Edward and becomes a witch. I really did love the series but felt the treatment of some characters was bizarre. 3y

batsy A great list! You had a pretty wide-ranging reading year 🙌🏽 3y

Cinfhen What a marvelous list!! I‘ve taken the screenshot so I can study up on the books I‘m not familiar with!! Thanks so much for sharing and tagging me♥️ 3y

GatheringBooks I want to read them all! Thank you for the tag. 3y

MaureenMc @merelybookish I‘ve heard that there‘s quite a bit of autobiographical details included in Howard‘s fiction. I wonder if Villy‘s & Diana‘s arcs contain some of those? 🤔 3y

TheLudicReader I so admire you for reading Ducks, Newburyport. There‘s no part of me that wants to give it a go, but yay you. 3y

merelybookish @batsy Yes, in spite of not meeting my Goodreads challenge. 😜 3y

merelybookish @Cinfhen Thank you! And thanks again for keeping Litsy fun! 😘 3y

merelybookish @GatheringBooks Thanks! I look forward to your list! 3y

merelybookish @MaureenMc Interesting! Maybe I'll do some background reading. I did mean to look up reviews to see what others had said about it. 3y

merelybookish @TheLudicReader Haha. It is a commitment to read 🦆🦆 so I understand! And I meant to tag you. 🤦‍♀️Would love to see your Top 21. 🙂 3y

BarbaraBB That‘s some list you share here 😍 3y

HardcoverHearts What a phenomenal list!! So many of my favorites are here. 🙌🏻 3y

LitStephanie Thanks for the tag! What a great way to share our favorites to help each other find good books to try. 3y

merelybookish @HardcoverHearts Thank you! I remember you commenting when I was reading The Street. It's such an amazing novel! 3y

merelybookish @LitStephanie Yes, it's a quick way to build up your TBR! 😬 3y

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Centique

An Episode of Sparrows: A Novel | Rumer Godden

An Abebooks delivery to warm my heart! I‘d been looking for The Greengage Summer and An Episode of Sparrows for a while - blame it on @merelybookish and @LeahBergen and then Justine was coming up on my TBR hit list and @ReadingEnvy reviews of the quartet were so good I thought I should start collecting them. These are all paperbacks but I‘m happy with the condition. (And a biography because who can resist a biography of a writer after all??)

Gogobooks ❤️ Rumer Godden. In this house of brede. The peacock summer, black narcissus was made into film w deborah kerr. Quite notable. 4y

Centique @Gogobooks I loved In this House of Brede too! I will have to read the others. She‘s so good 😍 4y

Gogobooks Peacock spring that is🤣 4y

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TrishB Great #bookhaul 4y

erzascarletbookgasm Fabulous book mail!! Would love to read all these too! Enjoy! 4y

batsy Lovely haul. The Greengage Summer is one of my favourites. 4y

MaureenMc I loved In This House of Brede! Hoping to read more of Godden this year. 😊 4y

ReadingEnvy Oh good work - those Faber editions of the Durrell are much sought after. For a while that pbk boxed set was the only set, at least from what I understand. 4y

quirkyreader This was a major score. 4y

Ruthiella I love those editions of the Alexandria Quartet even though unlike Jenny I‘m less enamored with the content. 😀 4y

LeahBergen What a lovely book haul! Yes, The Greengage Summer was SO good. 💚 4y

merelybookish What a wonderful array of books! I am excited for you to read the Goddens. They are both wonderful! And I have copies of the Alexandria Quartet sitting unread my shelf. I'd be up for a buddy read sometime! 4y

Centique @merelybookish oh excellent! I will give you a shout out when I‘m getting close to reading Justine. 4y

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merelybookish

An Episode of Sparrows: A Novel | Rumer Godden

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A children's novel about making a garden could be dull, but not when the garden is in a broken, dingy street in post-WW 2 London, or when one of the gardeners is Lovejoy, a girl who prays to be 'cocky and independent', or when all the adults are neither villains nor saints but they do misunderstand and disappoint. This is a book about our human need for beauty and how our perspective shifts what and how we can see. Wonderful on so many levels!

readordierachel Sounds like a lovely read 4y

LeahBergen Nice review! 4y

merelybookish @readordierachel It was! I am finding a lot of comfort in children's lit these days. 4y

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merelybookish @LeahBergen Thanks! I think it would be up your alley. It's from the NYRB children's series (older edition) and I find them to be such reliably good reads. 4y

batsy Lovely review! I have this and should probably get to it. It feels a bit like the children's version of

The Lost Garden: A Novel

merelybookish @batsy Oooh I will have to check that out! 4y

Centique Ohhhh this is on my TBR too, I love Godden so much! Have to get yo this 😍 4y

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merelybookish

An Episode of Sparrows: A Novel | Rumer Godden

"Put that on your needles and knit it." ???

This is book is an absolute delight!

LeahBergen Ha!! I‘ll need to use that one. 4y

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merelybookish

An Episode of Sparrows: A Novel | Rumer Godden

My purchases from a pleasant afternoon poking around Boulder's bookstores. I even managed to snap up a used copy of the February #NYRBbookclub selection.

batsy Score! #nyrbbookclub This is a lovely selection of books 😍 4y

erzascarletbookgasm What a lovely haul. I don‘t know Anita Loos but the cover is great. 4y

LeahBergen That‘s a great bunch of books! 4y

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readordierachel Great haul! 4y

merelybookish @batsy @LeahBergen @readordierachel I was pretty happy with them! 4y

merelybookish @erzascarletbookgasm Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is better known as the movie version starring Marilyn Monroe. But it's considered an undersung American classic. 4y

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GatheringBooks

An Episode of Sparrows: A Novel | Rumer Godden

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#TimbitTunes Day 3: What strikes me the most about this tale is the audacity of Lovejoy to have a #ConstantCraving for beauty, to be happy & carefree. How dare this abandoned young ‘un to even want color, alyssum & African marigolds? Such impertinence. It shows the unlikely triumph of the neglected spirit to rise above mundane things & how disparate the realities are as brought about by huge class divide. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-ho

Cinfhen, TheKidUpstairs

Cinfhen Gorgeous cover art ❤️ 6y

TheKidUpstairs Beautiful 6y

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