#TFBRC Heartbreaker

I loved all the beautiful angst and longing and frustration and anticipation in this lovely and unique book! Highly recommend!

Synopsis

Kate Worthington knows her heart and she knows she will never marry. Her plan is to travel to India instead—if only to find peace for her restless spirit and to escape the family she abhors. But Kate’s meddlesome mother has other plans. She makes a bargain with Kate: India, yes, but only after Kate has secured—and rejected—three marriage proposals.

Kate journeys to the stately manor of Blackmoore determined to fulfill her end of the bargain and enlists the help of her dearest childhood friend, Henry Delafield. But when it comes to matters of love, bargains are meaningless and plans are changeable. There on the wild lands of Blackmoore, Kate must face the truth that has kept her heart captive. Will the proposal she is determined to reject actually be the one thing that will set her heart free?

Set in Northern England in 1820, Blackmoore is a Regency romance that tells the story of a young woman struggling to learn how to follow her heart. It is Wuthering Heights meets Little Women with a delicious must-read twist.

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#TFBRC DNF

One book that I did not finish was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I'm not a fan of zombies, but I am a huge Jane Austen fan, so I thought I'd give it a try because it sounded fun and interesting. I found it boring because I felt like the author didn't make it his own, but rather simply interjected zombie scenes in the original text. Maybe I didn't get far enough to get to the interesting parts. There was some humor but it felt at odds with the more traditional tone it attempted to keep. Someday I'll try watching the movie. Maybe.

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#TFBRC Classics

Some of my favorite classics are by Gene Stratton-Porter. I love the descriptions of nature and the obvious love and devotion the naturalist author had for the wilderness. The wholesome romance is in the style of the early 1900's which I find sweet. It's interesting to note how different times were back then! 

Synopsis

The scene is laid in the same country as that of “Freckles”, which appeared a few years before. A number of the characters in "Freckles" are introduced here, and Elnora, the chief character, has the same deep love for the woods that possessed the boy Freckles. She has also become the proud owner of all his books on birds, insects, etc., and has tried to preserve the wonderful room he had made on the edge of the swamp. Elnora is a strong character, and although she has many things to contend with, she accomplishes what she has set out to do—namely, win for herself the education she craved. Through the money she received from the Bird Woman for the specimens she gathered and carried to the city she is able to pay her way through the High School and eventually is able to accept the position of Lecturer on Natural History in the city schools.

Synopsis

The Harvester is set in Gene Stratton Porter's Limberlost Swamp series. David Langston lives a simple life harvesting medicinal herbs to sell in the city. He believes that he has all that he needs in life, that is until he meets Ruth and everything changes. A gentle love story that changes everyone who reads it.

Synopsis

In this book a homeless waif finds his deliverance in the primeval Limberlost swamp. Maimed and abandoned as an infant, Freckles seeks a chance to prove his worth. He is given that opportunity as the guard of the precious timber of the Limberlost. In his stewardship of the woods, he finds happiness in the companionship of the birds and other wild creatures and in the love of the beautiful Swamp Angel. This moving story of courage and virtue will warm the hearts of young and old.

Synopsis

Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's last novel, a story filled with wisdom, a love of nature, and her own abiding optimism. In it a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California restore a wounded World War I veteran to health.

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#TFBRC Goals

GOALS:

Read 15 review books

Write the review before starting the next book

Post reading challenge prompts on Instagram and Facebook

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