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Book Review of Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
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Helpful Score: 4


I absolutely loved this book. Humorous, tender, touching, we live through all of the author's emotions with her, even the fear of "Oh, my God, what have I done!" There is not a single unlikeable character in this book, but this hardly makes it sappy. A childhood dream, esoteric to say the least, an adult fantasy, suddenly comes true, and then is regretted sorely. But it is what causes these regrets and fears that builds the friendships with the country folk (at least a dozen of them named Joe Crowley, senior or junior), teaching her, and her fiance how to learn to dress, drive and live country. A dying cat, woodchuck-hunting poodle, stubborn mule, an Eastern-European old aunt, the collapsing barn and acres of brambles, it's all here. Even a cure for cancer.