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Janet’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Janet’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Janet Green Smith
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The Grey Woman
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Dry Spell: Tales of Thirst and Longing
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Beating the January Blahs
Getting through January always requires a stack of good books. Here are some winners that have been doing the trick for me.
The Wedding People
The Wedding People, by Alison Espach, was as good as all the hype around it. I saw it on so many blogs last year and was super excited when my turn in the library queue finally came. I went into the book not even knowing the premise, and I was a bit s
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"So very, excrutiatingly, needlessly, over-dramatically, agonizingly over-written. The pathos practically drips off the pages with no humor and very little action to provide release.
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"Water for Elephants, the previous novel that I’ve read by Sara Gruen, fascinated me because if its Depression-era circus setting. In At the Water’s Edge, Gruen brings us a new tale set during World War II and featuring a search for the Loch Ness mons"
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I chose this book almost entirely because of its setting, but also because I liked the author’s other book, Water for Elephants. I finish this book because of it setting. But it had one of the dumbest plots and some of the most irritating characters ...more |
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“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can't do better, how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"
I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.
"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
― Jane Eyre
I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.
"Because, he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.”
― Jane Eyre
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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Victorians!
— 3778 members
— last activity 18 hours, 18 min ago
Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more
True Book Talk
— 83 members
— last activity Jan 28, 2026 08:01PM
Welcome to True Book Talk! ***Chats are on Wednesday nights at 9:30 pm eastern time. Chats are now going to take place here in the group under the to ...more
The Pickwick Club
— 385 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2020 10:42AM
Welcome to the Pickwick Club! This group is dedicated to reading, discussing, critiquing, and devouring the works of Charles Dickens.
Dickensians!
— 632 members
— last activity 10 hours, 20 min ago
Do you love the stories by Charles Dickens, and anything Victorian? Are you keen to chat about his books, his life, the times or places he lived in, o ...more
2016 Big Book Summer Reading Challenge
— 15 members
— last activity Oct 19, 2016 02:16PM
My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer! Join the fun and sign up here or at my blog ...more
2020 Big Book Summer Reading Challenge
— 47 members
— last activity Jun 09, 2022 02:19PM
My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer! Join the fun and sign up here (in the Sign-U ...more
Big Book Summer Reading Challenge 2024
— 234 members
— last activity Aug 05, 2025 08:58AM
My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer! Join the fun and sign up here (in the Sign-U ...more
2018 Big Book Summer Challenge
— 23 members
— last activity Sep 07, 2018 01:12PM
My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer! Join the fun and sign up here (in the Sign-U ...more
2017 Big Book Summer Challenge
— 21 members
— last activity Oct 08, 2017 03:01PM
My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer! Join the fun and sign up here (in the Sign-U ...more
2025 Big Book Summer Challenge
— 113 members
— last activity Sep 15, 2025 09:08AM
My annual Reading Challenge to tackle those Big Books (400 pages or more) during the lazy days of summer kicks off on May 23 and ends on September 1 t ...more
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Just you! :)It does take a little getting used to, but I love GR and find it the best social networking site, bar none.
Enjoy....
Hi Jane,Thanks for the friending me. I've only recently become a member and still trying to negotiate my way around Goodreads - is it me or is it unnecessarily complicated?
Take care
Martin
Hi Jane,Thanks for befriending this fellow Goodreads author!
- Beth
Thanks for the comment about Intimations of Austen--so glad you enjoyed my stories! They were truly a labor of love.
Thanks for accepting my friend request. I enjoyed your book very much! I loved the compilation of different Austen characters and books, as well as, the original ideas and stories you created.
