Thanks Lesley, Happy 2023 to you too. And yeah this month will be a doozy … with the move & a few other things going on. But we’ll see how it goes. I will stop by your site to see your 2022 list. I enjoy seeing the Year-End favs … and I plan to make one too soon. I think for me McCracken book and the Foster novella were about 3.7 stars for me. lol. So I don’t think they were raves for me but still worth checking out.
Hope you are enjoying the Cove these wintry days!

Congrats on meeting your Goodreads’ reading goal. I set mine a little too high, but managed to read 60 books. I might have done better, but I only read one book in September, which really lowered my year-end stats. Oh, well. I just drafted my Best of 2022 list and 20% of the book I read made that list (obviously not a Top 10 list, but rather 20!).

I keep seeing The Hero of This Book around the blogosphere and Instagram, so I’m going to add it to my TBR list. I haven’t read anything by Claire Keegan, but bought a copy of Foster after seeing so many rave reviews for the novella. I’ll get to Small Things Like These eventually. I’ll bet the audio edition of Charlotte’s Web is marvelous! It’s such a gem of a book.

Hope the month goes well. You have a lot going on with your upcoming move! Cheers!

Yeah Lark: I like revisiting childhood books so I can remember them & usually they are so good still. and thanks – I’m hoping for good reading in 2023! Maybe more time for it ?? Enjoy your week.

Ha. Laurel. So you were big into A Girl of the Limberlost during your youth. That’s good to know. I somehow missed it — but Laura Ingalls Wilder was big. I found the Limberlost a bit like that. It was a good read. I won’t forget Elnora anytime soon. Enjoy your week.

Thanks JoAnn. Yeah you have me wondering if Keegan’s books are better in print than audio … to get the full feeling from her writing. I read Small Things in print and listened to Foster on audio. And the print one I liked better … but what if I had read Foster too? Maybe I’d have liked it better. Hmm.
Happy New Year to you as well!

Thanks Gretchen. Yeah it’s interesting that the Limberlost novel came after Freckles. I have not read that one — but I think you would find the Limberlost one quite interesting. Nature abounds in the story and the young girl’s coming of age.
And I think it’s good to keep the reading challenges simple. I think I’m going to keep with 65 for now. I have not made it to 70 yet! It is good not to feel rushed. Happy 2023 to you!

Thanks Tina. Good to hear from you. Yeah Keegan’s writing is wonderful and I’m also looking forward to reading more of it in 2023. Wishing you a Happy New Year!

Thanks Helen. January will be a big month for us. We have one funeral, one wedding, and one move all this month, so I hope to survive. Taking it one day at a time. 🙂
Charlotte’s Web was a good book to end the year on. Just hopeful enough to start 2023 right. & so good too! Happy New Year.