Welcome to the Monthly Book Report and Book Review Link-up #27 – OCTOBER 2026!
On the First Wednesday of each month I will be sharing my latest read – which could be a cookbook, a celebrity chef biography or memoir, a lifestyle book, a gardening book, a homemaking book or maybe even a cozy kitchen mystery book. They may be paper books, eBooks, or audio books. I have challenged myself to read or listen to at least one book per week, and I plan to share that with you all here.
In addition to my Book Report, there will be a Book Report LInky – a chance for all of you to share your own book review blog post (TWO per blog, please). We want to see what had you page flipping, can’t put it down, totally captivated.
Lastly will be a few Featured Reviews from the previous month’s shared posts. This will be a post picked at random by the host. Each host will likely pick their own features – so that’s multiple chances to be featured!
If you have any suggestions for me on book I should check out – please let me know!
Title: The Farmer’s Wife: My Life in Days
Author: The Farmer’s Wife
Publication Date: August 2023
Published by: Faber & Faber
About the Author:
Helen Rebanks was born and raised on a farm in the English Lake District. Her family have been farming for many generations. Her parents kept dairy cows, beef cattle and sheep. Her grandfather bred pedigree Clydesdale horses. She has a first class honours degree in Fine Art and she worked in Oxford before becoming a full time farmer’s wife and mother to four children in Cumbria.
Brief Description of the book:
Helen Rebanks’ beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of self-discovery, the book takes us from the farmhouse table of her grandmother and into the home she now shares with her husband, James, their four kids, and an abundance of animals.
With honesty and grace, Helen shares her life in days—sometimes a wonder and a joy, others a grind to be survived—weaving in stories that read like a well-written pastoral novel. The Farmer’s Wife is a book about the love of life, the nourishing simplicity of everyday work, and sharing stories around a family table full of good food.
My Review:
I related personally to this book way more than I expected. Rebanks does an incredible job of telling the stories of the days of her life without it feeling like a recounting but rather a conversation. She shares all of the details – even the ugly ones – allowing the reader to feel and know that they are not the only woman or mother or parent or person to think and feel those things. She has a beautiful relationship with food and takes you on the journey from her teens well into her mid-life. She goes from a young farm girl to a city college girl to a young married woman to a mom to a farmer’s wife. It is a terribly beautiful and wonderfully real story.
This Months’s Featured Posts:
These are posts that stood out from the list of linked up posts last month. I hope you will hope over and check out their review. And don’t forget to link-up your own book-centric posts – YOU MIGHT BE NEXT MONTH’S FEATURE!
Open Book for September 2026
Shared by Spiritual Woman
The Book Review Linky
Meet Your Librarians…errmmm I mean Hosts!
Now for the link-up!
Party Guidelines:
1. Please take some time to poke around and visit some of the other links.
2. Please take some time to check out your hosts and co-hosts on social media.
3. We appreciate the variety of blogs on the www; however, the Book Review Linky is for links related to Books. Please link accordingly.
4. All Captions need to be Family-Friendly and PG. If your post has EXPLICIT content, you must label it in the caption. If you DO NOT DO this your link will be removed.
5. You may add as many Book-Centric Posts as you like.
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