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#StorySettings #Farm Wendell Berry is such a gifted writer. Well drawn characters and an incredible sense of place. Though his setting is in Kentucky, there are things in these two books common to farmers everywhere.

Encyclopedic. Very detailed in almost every aspect of life on the Kentucky frontier in the early 1800‘s. Yet written in a way that‘s interesting and entertaining. A lot to be learned with a little adventure thrown in. It is a marathon to read at 848 pages. I‘ve put it down and returned to it many times.

Here's my Bookspin list for February! I am both pleased by the number of books that didn't and and slightly dismayed by the number of books that did carry over from the last time I did this in August. Lets see if we can knock this list down some more!

First Audio book to kick off the year! As an outreach librarian myself, this was a super fun read! I had it recommended by one of my outreach patrons and was instantly drawn into the story and the parallels of life I shared with the main character. So fun! Also gut wrenching, tear jerking, gasp inducing and at many different times made me want to linger in the car listening just a second longer.

Overall, this was a pretty interesting and engaging story about the history of bourbon and some of the characters who helped shape it. I‘ve been going a bit overboard since having hit the bourbon trail in Kentucky last summer! 🥃 4/5

So interesting and memorable. Blue-skinned people of Kentucky, Kentucky Pack horse library of the 1930s—not that long ago and yet another world. Loved it.

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Excited to share my October‘s #TitlesAndTunes #Blues @barbarabb 🩵💙 This book has been on my TBR for ages- a story about the “blue people” of Eastern Kentucky - a place known for their bluegrass music 🎻
While researching songs I actually came across a song with the exact book title by the Ruby Friedman Orchestra plus I had to add a nice bluesy remake of Blue Kentucky Moon from LeAnn Rimes 🌚

I struggled to get to page 50. It's the same concept basically of 'The Woman of Troublesome Creek', which I loved, but this one I couldn't get in to at all.

Reading Bobbie Ann Mason's older works is like visiting the world I grew up in. She's from Mayfield, KY, which is only about 70 miles from my hometown in TN. She mentions locations I know well, and her characters use words and phrases I'd all but forgotten. They would be great stories without this sense of familiarity, but it does make me enjoy them even more. #storyaday2023 #doublespin