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Kshakal
Picnic | Mercer Mayer
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Eggs I want to be here 🧺 4d
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TheEllieMo
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Strictly speaking, this is about fellwalking rather than #Hiking, but they‘re two sides of the same coin!

#DaysDevotedTo
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 8mo
Eggs 🧡🥾💛 8mo
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Teresereading
The Country Child | Alison Uttley
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The dark wood was green and gold, green where the oak trees stood crowded together with misshapen twisted trunks, red-gold where the great smooth beeches lifted their branching arms to the sky.
#firstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Teresereading
The Country Child | Alison Uttley
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BookNAround
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My last book for the month. Will I finish it or will I carry it over? It‘s an #auldlangspine choice.

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BarkingMadRead
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Sace Oh I like that cover better than my edition! 9mo
BarkingMadRead @Sace she looks so chic in this one! 9mo
Sace @BarkingMadRead She does! I‘ve never really liked the 60s/70s covers but those are the covers for pretty much my whole collection. 9mo
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TieDyeDude
Picnic | Mercer Mayer
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#two4tuesday @thespineview

1. I don't picnic much; usually more a quick stop while hiking or cooking while camping. You can never go wrong with a hoagie/sub and chips/popcorn. I'm partial to beer, but a Riesling would be nice.

2. Something light and fun, maybe a collection of short stories or something with short chapters, that would be easy to put down and enjoy the breeze.

Thanks for the tag, @wildalaskabibliophile

TheSpineView I like your idea of a short read. Thanks for playing! 1y
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Tamra
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Bailedbailed

I expected to love this novel because at the outset the humor seemed delightfully cheeky! (Pun intended) 😢 Sadly, there was something about the writing that felt disjointed and I couldn‘t find the flow. I got almost 3/4 of the way thru and skipped to the last chapter to see if I could tell where the MC ends up. Seems a rather morally dubious ending. @Jess_Read_This

Ruthiella You gave it a fair chance. 1y
Tamra @Ruthiella could have been wrong time. Just never know! 1y
dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 1y
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LeahBergen Well, I‘m unstacking it now! 😆 1y
Cathythoughts Oh dear !! Still, when you‘ve got to bail you‘ve got to bail 👍🏻❤️ 1y
Jess_Read_This Oh yes. The ending was not good! 1y
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Tamra
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Oh my, if this is any indication I‘m going to love the humor of this one!

Aimeesue Really, it saves you a lot of trouble in the long run 😂 1y
jlhammar Ha, that‘s great! 1y
Ruthiella 😂😂😂 1y
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BethM 😂 1y
CarolynM 🤣 Stacked! 1y
LeahBergen I need to stack it, too! 😆 1y
batsy 😆 That opening paragraph sounds great, too! 1y
BookNAround This one has been sitting on my tbr shelves for a decade or more. This is inspiring me to pull it off though! 1y
Jess_Read_This 😂 How are you liking it so far? 1y
Tamra @Jess_Read_This I haven‘t properly started it yet bc I have a work bookclub novel checked out. I‘d rather be reading Mavis! 1y
Jess_Read_This @Tamra I‘ve been in that bookish predicament before! 😂 1y
Cathythoughts Love it 🤣 1y
Tamra @Aimeesue @jlhammar @Ruthiella @BethM @CarolynM @LeahBergen @batsy @BookNAround @Cathythoughts I think this one is likely to be right up our collective reading alley! 😊 I haven‘t been able to start it yet, but soon. 1y
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Jess_Read_This
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Pickpick

4⭐️ The “tragic comedic elements often found in domestic relationships” (Guardian quote from her obituary) were indeed present in this novel. I found the writing acerbically funny, entertaining (see scene where teenagers throw house party), and reflective on stages of moving on in relationships. That being said, the ending disappointed me. To be fair, Mrs Fytton was always clear on her end aim. I, the reader, just didn‘t believe her.

Jess_Read_This Link to the Guardian obituary if anyone is interested: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/04/mavis-cheek-obituary 2y
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