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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Harvest by Jim Crace
📖 Eight Modern Writers (Oxford History of English Literature) by J.I.M. Stewart
📖 Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset

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A bleak story narrated by Walter a widower who is implicated in the tragic destruction of his village as a consequence of the new lord‘s desire for profit and enterprise. As usual it is the poor who are sacrificed in the name of progress. Accusations of witchcraft and violence complicate the moral landscape but it is clear that apparent progress prevails and that the ordinary people who get in the way have to be removed. A slow but good read.

But I‘d be lying if it said I felt as dark and gloomy as the clouds. I think I am thrilled in some strange way. The ploughing‘s done The seed is spread. The weather is reminding me that rain or shine , the earth abides, the land endures,the soil will persevere for ever and a day. It‘s smell is pungent and high seasoned. This is happiness.

It did not take many working days before I understood that the land itself, from sod to meadow, is inflexible and stern. It is impatient, in fact. It cannot wait. There‘s not a season set aside for pondering and reveries. It will not let us hesitate or rest; it does not wish us to stand back and comment on its comeliness or devise a song for it. It has no time to listen to our song. It will only ask us not to tire in our hard work.

Fun fall festival a few years ago. #harvest #fallisbooked

#Harvest #FallisBooked

What will happen in a village when 3 strangers arrive?

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I went to the used bookstore and library in my town today and between sales and book credits at the used bookstore, I got these 11 books ($187.65 cover price) for $10! I feel really happy and fortunate with this #bookhaul which includes some stellar stuff. But I gotta curb my physical book acquiring rate so this‘ll be it for quite a while. I hope.

A beautifully written novel about a rural community which changes completely in the week after the harvest. Over the course of seven days Walter Thirsk sees all he believed in for the past twelve years fall to pieces and finds himself confronted with mainly himself. Subtle and gripping. #booker #manbooker Picture: My daughter, deeply asleep 😍

Reading in bed tonight because the doctor told me to! #wellokaythen #noproblemshere #betterdothistomorrowtoojustincase

When good villages go bad. This was shortlisted for a bunch of prizes, not least the Man Booker.
#setinasmalltown
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