Paperback. A donated library discard that I purchased from a second library location.

Arrived in mail today with tea bags. Book looks good and tea smells great! Thank you so much! Making myself wait until tomorrow.

Strange book. I was a little confused by the end. Still enjoyed it. Passing it along to my daughter.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Mailed to hntrezise in Lawrence, Kansas. Hope she likes it. And then she mailed it back to me when she was done. I thought she would release it up there.

Added to the Spring Wrap It Up Book Box.

Pulled this book from the Wrap It Up Bookbox hosted by waternixie July 2011. Can't wait to read it & rerelease it. :)

Added to Nattabee's "Can't Wait to Get on the Road Again" bookbox.

I selected this book from Nattabee's "Can't Wait to Get on the Road Again" bookbox. Thanks for including it and I am really looking forward to reading it and then it can continue it's travels.

Releasing as part of the General Lit VBB, Happy Reading!

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I received this in the mail from bookstogive of Springville, Tennessee. I chose this from the General Lit VBB that she organizes.

Thank you for this book, bookstogive. It took me so long to make a journal entry for this book because I put it on the birthday pile. (My birthday was yesterday so it finally got opened.)

This was a unique and well-constructed book written in a succinct writing style about Stella, a female social anthropologist in England who has spent her left studying family histories of various groups and teaching in universities. She had love affairs but never married or had a family and seems perfectly content. She is forced to retire at a certain age and finds herself in a country village. Although Stella has no trouble adjusting, she finds retirement rather odd. The author throws in neighbors from hell who are violent and abusive. Although Stella has little interaction with this family, it is disturbing to read about this abusive and sociopathic family. The book tells us about Stella's life and her friendship with her university roommate who is quite different from her, her roommate gets married and has children. Stella's university roommate has recently died of cancer and now her roommate's husband is interested in her. After reading more than half the book, I found that I was not enjoying it. After the neighbor boys kill Stella's dog for no reason, I did not want to read more.

This book was left inside the Little Free Library located on the southeast corner of East Canterbury Lane and East Canterbury Drive.

It was release for the 2015 You're Such An Animal release challenge.