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Michael C. Hall recommended A Thousand Acres in Books (curated)

 
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
5.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This novel, based on the story of King Lear and set in an Iowa farming community in the late 1970s, has a phenomenal narrator. Ginny never betrays her voice; she’s initially naive and always straightforward. Yet she manages to drop deft charges of insight on virtually every page. A devastating and gorgeous account of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, toxic masculinity, corrosive secrets…and an abiding heroine."

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Taryn K (441 KP) rated Casual Farming 5: A Slow Living LitRPG (Sowing Season) in Books

Jan 4, 2023  
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Casual Farming 5: A Slow Living LitRPG (Sowing Season)
Wolfe Locke, Mike Caliban | 2022 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
9.5 (2 Ratings)
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Puking (but it is non-graphic, thankfully) (0 more)
Another slice of life farming/dungeon book
I've read all 5 of the Casual Farming novels that are currently out, though this is the first one I've actually written a review on. We've followed Jason from his arrival in Summer Shandy to his marriage and first child. Old friends have new roles, new faces have joined the town so he's not the newest guy, and he has thoroughly settled in. I really enjoyed this.

I am still, after 5 books, unsure of what to make of the time system in this universe. I'm happy we don't have Jason's wife puking all day every day for 7 months, but getting through the pregnancy in one season is a little strange. It works though, kind of like the seasons changing at midnight exactly on the last day of the season.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to book 6, whenever they get it published. :)
  
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Akward (448 KP) rated the Nintendo Switch version of Stardew Valley in Video Games

Jun 1, 2018  
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley
2016 | Simulation
10
9.1 (27 Ratings)
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Tons of content (1 more)
Collecting/Achievements
Some people may find it tedious (0 more)
If you can get in to Stardew Valley, you will likely spend hundreds of hours in it. You would be hard-pressed to find a game that has a better value proposition.

It is a lot like Animal Crossing, but with less focus on home decoration (although it's there), and more focus on farming. Oh, and there is combat in this one too.
  
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Kittyz98 (13 KP) rated the Nintendo Switch version of Stardew Valley in Video Games

Dec 12, 2018  
Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley
2016 | Simulation
10
9.1 (27 Ratings)
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I love this game so much. It’s incredibly relaxing yet has slightly darker tones to some of the storylines which was very unexpected. Still very much enjoyable and I love getting to farm and fish, although I’m not too keen on the mines.
Again, another unexpected thing was the combat in the mines, I honestly thought the game was just farming and talking to people but it’s much more. So enjoyable and I highly recommend
  
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Terence Koh recommended The Good Life in Books (curated)

 
The Good Life
The Good Life
Jay McInerney | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This was the book that inspired me to move from the city and live on a mountain in the middle of nowhere and everywhere. In 1932, they too moved from New York City to start living off the land deep in the green mountains of Vermont. Living off the land and in the seasons gives one a sense of honest purpose. Art, farming, poetry, architecture, carpentry, accounting, cooking have no boundaries with each other."

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Merissa (12061 KP) created a post

Oct 21, 2020  
"Barn burning in a sleepy farming community is a serious enough matter, but a grisly murder or two in a small midwest town is a showstopper. Throw in a serial blackmailer who has his claws in some of the town’s leading citizens and you have one big recipe for disaster."

RELEASE DAY BLITZ - Two Murders Too Many by Bluette Matthey - @Archaeolibrary, @HardyDurkin, #Mystery, #Crime

https://archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/two-murders-too-many-by-bluette-matthey