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kwmg40
Family Ties: A Novel | Celia Buckmaster
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Pickpick

I'm somewhat behind with the #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub schedule but finally finished this one. I did enjoy following the interactions of the villagers, even if most of the characters were thoroughly unpleasant!

#192025 #1952 @Librarybelle
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Ruthiella I‘m glad you liked it. Everyone was pretty awful in the novel, I agree! 😂 4w
LeahBergen What @Ruthiella said! An all around disagreeable bunch. 😆😆 4w
Bookwormjillk 🍎🍎🍎 4w
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PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 4w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w
Librarybelle Yay!! 4w
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Bookbuyingaddict
Echoes | Evie Wyld
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It‘s not you it‘s me , definitely a marmite read , as others have said starts well and could have been two engrossing stories , always love a ghost 👻 story or even better narrated by a ghost , but tbh it just bored me , the dual time lines , which I usually love didn‘t work for me I had no interest in her previous life in Australia, I also have bass rock on my TBR which Iv been told is far superior

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BkClubCare
Blue Ruin: A novel | Hari Kunzru
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“There was a pie and mash shop and a butcher.”

#piemention #litpie #pieandbooks #booksandpie #ILovePie #BlackPloutPie

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Jeg
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Pickpick

Lent to me by a friend. Delightful. A well written , eloquent love story. Actually a few love stories or maybe better , stories of love. Set in France and England. Took me a while to read but I did enjoy it.

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Amiable
Family Ties: A Novel | Celia Buckmaster
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#Tagyoureit @rubyslippersreads ! You posted a book with an image of trees on it, which fits this week‘s theme for the scavenger hunt! If you spot another Litten posting a book with a tree on it anytime this week, tag them to keep the game going!

TheBookHippie 🌳🌳🌳🌳 4mo
Chrissyreadit 🎉🎉🎉🎉 4mo
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rubyslippersreads
Family Ties: A Novel | Celia Buckmaster
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What an unpleasant family! Although living cheek by jowl with all of your in-laws would probably make most people cranky. 😏 And I did want to find out what happened, in spite of the unlikeable characters.

#FurrowedMiddleBrowClub

Tamra Yes! It would drive me batty to live with them if I didn‘t work outside the home to get away. The son who was the market grower had it best. 😜 4mo
Ruthiella Agree, everyone was pretty terrible and yet I did want to know what would happen. 😂 Their social sphere was way too small. No wonder Mrs. Rockaby was dying to move back to London. 4mo
Ruthiella P.S. Nice call back to Mr. George‘s hobby/book in your picture! 👍 4mo
LeahBergen I was thinking the exact thing about living all together like that!!! 😬 4mo
CarolynM It might not have been so bad if any of the other villagers had been people you could be friends with! 4mo
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Jess
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I do not believe in ghosts, which, since my death, has become something of a problem.

#firstlinefridays @shybookowl

Itchyfeetreader Well this pulls me in ! 4mo
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CarolynM
Family Ties: A Novel | Celia Buckmaster
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Pickpick

What a charmless lot these characters were! I had trouble feeling sympathy for any of them, except maybe Lavinia who seemed to be doing her best. #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

Ruthiella Lavinia and Mrs. Monsoon seemed OK. But the bar is very low! 😆 4mo
LeahBergen ‘Charmless lot‘ is exactly right! 😂 4mo
Tamra @LeahBergen 😂 great review & description! 4mo
Centique Lovely flowers! 4mo
rubyslippersreads I felt sympathy for the poor cat! 😾 4mo
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Ruthiella
Family Ties: A Novel | Celia Buckmaster
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Pickpick

#FurrowedMiddlebrowClub

The middle and upper class of a small English village rub along together awkwardly in this novel. The eccentric Mr. Monsoon, the pretentious Mrs. Rockaby, the loony Lady Tyce, etc. There‘s no real plot nor any character to root for really, but I enjoyed it on the whole. It‘s often funny and has maybe a subtle feminist edge to it at times, but as @Tamra noted, much longer would have been too long.

LeahBergen That ditch! 😂 4mo
Tamra 😷😂 4mo
Tamra I really expected more about Mrs. Tyce and her poison pen! That could have been a really fun storyline. (edited) 4mo
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Ruthiella @LeahBergen The ditch is the only character that has a transformative arc! 😂 4mo
Ruthiella @Tamra For sure! 4mo
Tamra @Ruthiella 🤣 4mo
CarolynM Perfect picture! 🤣 @LeahBergen 4mo
Ruthiella @CarolynM You can almost smell it! 😷 4mo
rubyslippersreads I‘m surprised someone didn‘t get thrown into that ditch! 🤣 4mo
Ruthiella @rubyslippersreads Oh! That would have been quite something! I guess Mr. Monsoon winging his daughter-in-law was enough excitement. 😂 4mo
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