For anyone looking to read the Little House books for the first time, or revisiting them for the first time as an adult, just to let you know that LIW wrote them so that they start out at a young reading level and get progressively more advanced, or at least they were edited in this way. It's a great idea for young readers, but it does make the early books a bit elementary for adult readers.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Kathy A - Sep 14, 2011 11:40:29 am PDT #16332 of 28282
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Toddson - Sep 14, 2011 11:45:23 am PDT #16333 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Some days, I think that's all I'd be able to comprehend ... maybe I should read some of them.
Kathy A - Sep 14, 2011 11:52:29 am PDT #16334 of 28282
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I can't recommend them enough, as you can probably tell! They're just fascinating to me.
It's really neat to find out as an adult that the very PC inclusion of the black doctor in Little House on the Prairie is actually historically accurate; Dr. Tan is listed on the same 1870 census page as the Ingalls family.
Mr. Edwards has never been pinned down to a specific person, unfortunately, but Nellie Olsen has been identified as being an amalgamation of three girls that Laura knew at various points of her youth, and Mr. Brewster, the homesteader whom Laura roomed with at her first teaching job, had his name changed by her due to the stark honesty of how LIW depicted the really bad marriage he was in (he was the one whose wife was threatening him with a knife in the wee hours of a cold winter morning while Laura hid behind the curtain separating her bed from theirs). (IRL, he was Mr. Boast's cousin, IIRC.)
Kat - Sep 15, 2011 3:57:00 am PDT #16335 of 28282
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I am digging the LHotP thread. I haven't read those books since I was a kid, but I loved them!
In non-related wondering, has anyone here read The Hypnotist by Lars Keppler? I'm partway through and it's totally addictive, but also extremely disturbing. It's like a more fucked up, more gripping, less 50 pages on corporate grab than the Girl with a .... series. But I cannot fall asleep after reading this. Maybe I should stop?
Toddson - Sep 15, 2011 10:16:10 am PDT #16336 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Beautiful cover, but seriously?
le nubian - Sep 15, 2011 10:17:44 am PDT #16337 of 28282
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
someone, please read that and do a book report for us.
please.
Toddson - Sep 15, 2011 10:18:20 am PDT #16338 of 28282
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Actually, I think getting together for drinks and doing a dramatic reading would be perfect.
Liese S. - Sep 15, 2011 10:21:40 am PDT #16339 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I am digging the LHotP thread.
Me too! Hey, I bet I could get them from my library for my Nook. Lemme check.
Amy - Sep 15, 2011 10:22:41 am PDT #16340 of 28282
Because books.
Aw, Chrysabelle and Malkolm! Doomed lovers!
::rolls eyes forever::
Liese S. - Sep 15, 2011 10:37:16 am PDT #16341 of 28282
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hmph. Maybe not.