@jo, Fresh from the Country is a good one to start with, it is a standalone novel and a delightful sample of her writing. I haven't read the Fairacre series yet but my sister and I have been reading the Thrush Green series for the past several years and really love them, we only have a few left and while we have enjoyed some books more than others in the series we have not disliked any of them. You really need to read her series in order since the books build on each other (she does provide a little bit of a recap occasionally but I think it would be hard to not be confused if one started in the middle of a series).

I finished Early Days on Monday and loved it, am also really enjoying Letters to Malcom, I got my mom to start reading it as well and she also likes it.

Facing the Mountain sounds very interesting, I am going to add it to my TBR. Thanks for drawing my attention to it, @jo.

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It's fun to have a mix of new reads and rereads, @SnowAngel! How is your yearly book goal looking?

Love love loving my reading list, but I am way off my goal of 120 books, just finished book number 93 on Saturday. However I am forty-six pages from completing my 12th nonfiction read of 2024.   It's not the Stonewall Jackson biography, I got two more nonfiction books from the library and I'm currently reading Return of the Strong Gods by R.R. Reno. But I am planning to finished the Stonewall bio this year even if I have to read all day on December 31st.  

I finished The Marquis' Secret by George MacDonald, I love Malcolm's story arc, it's one of my all-time favorites. Right now I have bookmarks in two fiction books, one is a western by Ernest Haycox and the other is the first Dana Sisters mystery...but I'm thinking about starting another George MacDonald book instead. It just seems like the right kind of reading for November with the weather being warm and sunny one day and cool and cloudy the next. It's either that or I'm going to raid my sister's Perry Mason collection, hard decision to make.  

SnowAngel