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In honor of Labor Day, I wanted to get your input on choosing a longer book. I get restless easily, and even if I like the book, I get tired of being in the same world if it takes me too long. But every now and then, I like going down the rabbit hole of a longer work, especially if it's a little weird. These 3 have been on my list for awhile: are any of these favorites of yours? Or did any disappoint, even if you usually like the author?

'God planted a fruit garden,' he said. There was profit and pleasure to be found in an orchard: the smell of almond blossom, the birdsong and the buzzing of bees, the cool shade offered on a hot summer's day. All of these delights are 'the Good of every thing, and a pattern of Heaven', Austen wrote.

The narration was excellent, but the way it was written was confusing for me as someone new to the study of 17th century England. I didn‘t understand why some aspects were heavily covered and some were barely touched on.
3/5 Read for a brief history of the British Civil War, a long history of the religious turmoil that led to it, & a smattering of history of thought, including an in depth but limited in scope discussion of The Blazing World

Lately I‘ve not had much luck book shopping, but today I scored. 😃 The two novels were on my TBR and I wasn‘t looking for them - pure happenstance.

Milk Street is always up my alley.

Set in the marshlands on the south coast of England, this tells the story of Alinor and her family who live off the land. Alinor is for all intents and purposes a wisewoman and raises the suspicions of her neighbours that she is a witch. She meets James, a spy for the Cavaliers during the English Civil War. I really enjoyed this book, it‘s a real romp through a tumultuous time in England‘s history. It‘s entertaining stuff.

#Bibliophile

Honor from this Du Maurier I read a couple of years ago is a #ProtagWithDisability after she falls from a horse & is paralyzed from the waist down.

I‘m reading this with my online book group https://thereadingloft.groups.io/g/main

Prompt 10 - #tombstone #wickedwhispers

@alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

The illustrations in the book are genius.

... tales of bluff Norfolk farmers baffled by religious change, of drunken evenings in provincial inns and oak-panelled parlours, of saucy Norwich prostitutes and dour Dutch drainage engineers, of Cuckold the Calthorpes‘ dog and Wiggett the Hunstanton Hall fool, and of the many misadventures of Mr Prick, the unfortunately named minister of Denham. [The book]... enclosed one family‘s capacity for laughter even in the most serious times.