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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!!

I have just been dipping into this periodically.

Challenge book.

My July IRL book club selection. Worried I won't have it done in time, didn't realize it was over 500pp!!

My IRL book club June selection. I'm engaged.

I rolled my eyes at the revealing of one of the secrets. Really?? Did the author really need to make the rapist that particular personage? Does it propel the story forward?

The aim of a spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

Every day, think as you wake up: "Today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it." Dalai Lama

Acknowledging the good you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Eckert Tolle