I also finished reading a wonderful, if quirky, book yesterday that I thought I'd share.
I ordered it from Amazon about a week ago on a whim. Well, I guess it could be considered a want. I don't know. What I do know is that I needed to round out my order of $8.64 for a 1/16th inch hole punch. Why would I need a 1/16th inch hole punch? To punch small, perfect holes in cardstock tags for the products I am aiming to sell at the farmer's market and craft fair next year.
Anyway, Amazon recommended a book entitled: Home to Woefield by Susan Juby. I read about it and was intrigued. See I had just finished another excellent book: The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball and was aching for another book on farming.
I added Woefield to my wishlist and moved on, trying to find something already in my cart or wishlist that had been there longer. In the end it nagged at the back of my mind until I bought it.
It's about a young woman named Prudence from New York City who is very much a part of the Back-to-the-Earth movement (she even has an earthworm composting farm in her apartment) when she learns that her Uncle died and left her a farm in Canada. She decides it's the perfect opportunity to practice what she preaches and moves in.
The farm comes with a small town packed full of interesting people, a crotchety old man who has lived on the farm forever, a neighbor across the road who blogs about heavy metal, and a very serious young girl. Prudence is at once admirable and pitiable. She seems fairly clueless but is so optimistic and hardworking that you can't help but hope she succeeds.
The book focuses mostly on the story and less on the farming aspect unlike Kimball's book, but then again this book is fiction. The characters and really the whole story are fantastic and fun. A word of caution though: it really is chockfull of swear words and taking the Lord's name in vain. It bothered me on more than one occasion and I would not let children read it, but as far as reading it just to myself - I skimmed over them or read a different word in place of the offensive ones.
For a nice, easy, entertaining read I would recommend this book, but don't go expecting a lot out of the ending. It feels rushed. I felt like we had spent all this time getting to know everyone and then we get cut off from them very suddenly where the story ends. Everything seems resolved toward the end, but still it is very abrupt.
Overall I really enjoyed this one.
*As a side note, I was not compensated in any way for this review
by either the author or Amazon and I purchased the book with my own money.
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