Welcome to my stop of Celebrate Lit’s Book Tour for Adventures in Poverty.  I hope you enjoy learning about this book  and author.  At the end is a giveaway for you to enter.  The author will choose someone to win a copy of her book plus a $50 Amazon gift card.  Be sure to enter.

My Thoughts:

Author Nancy Bolton has written a poignant memoir in her book “Adventures in Poverty.”  She is frank and totally transparent about her life after her husband lost his job causing the family to move their trailer to an undeveloped piece of land.  Her book is written like a diary or conversation with the reader.

The cover drew me to the book.  It is whimsical and looked serene.  The stories inside the covers were not.  There are stories about animals, neighbors, family issues, money or lack of it problems, gardening, struggles, and more.  I was disappointed in the light mention of God and faith.

It took me a bit to get invested in the story and even then my attention wandered.  The book was a daily “what we did” and became mundane.  I lost interest and actually skimmed over some of it.  There are flashback from their life before.

The author lived an impressive life.  I could not have managed it.  She was the anchor for her family that lived with no electricity or running water.  Nancy was a genius is stretching her groceries and meal planning.

I would recommend this for people that enjoy memoirs about living off of the grid.  This book is not a page turner but has some nice stories.  It shows how a family must work together peacefully.  Celebrate Lit provided a copy but this is my honest opinion.

About the Book:

Book: Adventures in Poverty

Author: Nancy Bolton

Genre: Memoir

Release Date: July 30, 2019

Faced with eviction, living on union strike pay, our time for making a decision was running out. Where could we go to live with our five small sons? We had few options. The scariest possibility was also the one that fit best with our tiny income. But could we really make such a difficult move? To transport our family, and our mobile home onto a five-acre parcel of rural, undeveloped land? No electricity, no running water, with winter fast approaching. It sounded a little crazy…….

 

 

 

About the Author:

Nancy Shew Bolton is a wife, mother, grandmother, jewelry maker, crochet crafter, and of course: a writer! She lives in upstate New York in a lovely scenic region known as The Fingerlakes. Widowed last year, she is comforted by her five sons, two grandchildren and a marvelous array of family and other loved ones. She loves the creative process, and puts her whole focus into the stories she writes. May you be entertained and uplifted by them!

 

More from Nancy:

Sometimes life hands out an unexpected challenge, and the direction you mapped out for your family comes up against a big roadblock. And there you are, trying to navigate back to a path that makes sense. One that would be as close to the previous path as you can get. But our only options led us in directions far away from what we were used to.

Faced with eviction, living on union strike pay, our time for making a decision was running out. Where could we go to live with our five small sons? We had few options. The scariest possibility was also the one that fit best with our tiny income. But could we really make such a difficult move? To transport our family, and our mobile home onto a five-acre parcel of rural, undeveloped land? No electricity, no running water, with winter fast approaching. It sounded a little crazy…….

Blog Stops:

Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, August 24

Quiet Quilter, August 25

The Avid Reader, August 26

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, August 27

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, August 28

Abba’s Prayer Warrior Princess, August 29

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, August 30

Texas Book-aholic, August 31

janicesbookreviews, September 1

A Reader’s Brain, September 2

Power of Words, September 3 (Spotlight)

Inklings and notions , September 4

Lots of Helpers, September 5

Just the Write Escape, September 6

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Nancy is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card and eBook copy of her book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter. https://promosimple.com/ps/e7c7/adventures-in-poverty-celebration-tour-giveaway