So what do you do if you start a book and don’t like it? Do you keep plugging along, hoping it will get better? Or do you cut your losses and move on to the next volume?

Her getting-ready-for winter chores finally done, Ruth Goodwin is about to embark on the winter reading season. It isn’t quite what she expected, however.

Let’s plunge in to see how she handles it, shall we?

Welcome to Carding, Vermont where life always includes a dash of the unexpected. You can find the little town that no one can seem to find on a map right here in the Carding Chronicles and in the four novels of Carding, Vermont, The Road Unsalted, Thieves of Fire, The Dazzling Uncertainty of Life, and Lights in Water, Dancing.

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