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.)
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?
Beautiful cover, but seriously?
someone, please read that and do a book report for us.
please.
Actually, I think getting together for drinks and doing a dramatic reading would be perfect.
I am digging the LHotP thread.
Me too! Hey, I bet I could get them from my library for my Nook. Lemme check.
Aw, Chrysabelle and Malkolm! Doomed lovers!
::rolls eyes forever::
WHAT. Just ... what. NO.
That's it. Everyone out of the vampire genre. No one gets to write vampire books without me approving them first.
t /still waiting to ascend and become Vampire Witch Queen of the Universe
Yes, everyone seems to have jumped on the "supernatural romance" bandwagon. Although some are jumping onto the "steampunk" bandwagon, with similar results.
And they get so ... creative ... with the names.
