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This is my IRL boo club's Sep choice. We meet on the 21st, so I need to get crackin!!

I actually started this in May with a goal to finish before the end of the year, but I set it aside while I concentrated on my summer TBR challenge. I've set this at my bedside hoping I can read 20 or so pages before turning out the light. I remember really enjoying BTB books as a YA. I'm not finding that same feeling at this point.

My trip to Dinosaur National Monument and Echo Park got tanked. Maybe next year? In the meantime, I thought I would read a little more about it. First up this 1955 peek of the area and a major controversy that was ongoing at that time.

I had set this aside while I read another book.

Oh Eustacia, you only think of yourself!! Clym needs to let her go. I know Hardy doesn't write any happy endings so I wonder how all this will end.

Needed to get started on my IRL book club's Aug selection, as our discussion date is in a week. Based on these first 50+ pages, I think it will be a relatively quick read.

Next up on deck for the summer TBR challenge.

This has been in a bag of books someone gave to me quite a number of years ago. I made this part of my TBR challenge for the summer. But I'm not sure its a story I look forward to.

This is moving a little slower for me than I anticipated.

This is moving a little slower for me than I anticipated.

"One young boy, asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, a fireman or pilot or such answered: "Alive".

I learned what a reddleman was & how sheep were marked to identify whom they belonged to.

I love the lush, poetic writing of Hardy. I aways feel that the landscape or local nature is another character in his novels.

The Hardy group read. One chapter a day. Looking forward to reading this and all the commentary by the group!!