Laura is a wonderful character--she is smart, capable, jealous, impatient, brave, loyal and funny. The books are definitely worth a read.
Mighty fine shindig.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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."
Scrappy - Feb 21, 2008 8:53:17 pm PST #5121 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 22, 2008 3:46:49 am PST #5122 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I have many of the same good memories of the books, especially The Long Winter and Little Town on the Prairie- and a LOVED Cap Garland, so I am so sad to see he died so young. I remember Laura helping Pa with the Hay, and being happy because she did not have to wear a corset, and in the Long Winter, them making logs out of hay and straw, and grinding the seed wheat that Almanzo and Royal hid so they had bread and mush. And a snowball fight with cap Garland, which was unladylike!
The thing about the past that confuses me is that it seems from boooks and such that there was no gradual change from being a child to being an adult. Just Boom! You are a lady!
Ginger - Feb 22, 2008 4:48:49 am PST #5123 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's great to come back to so much Little House love. I was remembering when Mr. Edwards brought Christmas, Laura's first orange, and the signs of the author-to-be as she described things for Mary. I don't know if any other Jericho watchers noticed, but when the teacher tried to start up a class, post-apocalypse, she began by saying, "Let us begin as we mean to go on," which was what Laura said her first day of teaching.
sj - Feb 22, 2008 4:50:28 am PST #5124 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I got the first four or five as a boxed set when I was, oh, nine-ish, and pretty well disliked them. I think I read 1.5 of them, tried again later, and gave them away.
Raq is me, except I don't think I even got that far. I should try again.
Aims - Feb 22, 2008 5:40:55 am PST #5125 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.
How funny that the Litle House books are the discussion in here and I was heading over to ask about any other "pioneer girl" books to read because my final project in my Children' Lit class is going to be centered around the pioneer girls.
You all know of any others in the same age-range reading-wise about pioneer girls?
sumi - Feb 22, 2008 5:45:11 am PST #5126 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Carrie Woodward (I think) - it's been a long time since I've read it. I'll check the title.
sarameg - Feb 22, 2008 5:47:24 am PST #5127 of 28344
Caddie Woodlawn
(is that the one you are thinking of, sumi?)
sumi - Feb 22, 2008 6:19:28 am PST #5128 of 28344
Art Crawl!!!
Yes!
My memory is very strange but at least I got the initials right.
Connie Neil - Feb 22, 2008 6:22:45 am PST #5129 of 28344
brillig
The thing about the past that confuses me is that it seems from boooks and such that there was no gradual change from being a child to being an adult. Just Boom! You are a lady!
Part of that was because a child's job was learning how to be a grownup. Every child was doing some sort of work as soon as they could physically manage it. Yeah, there was running around and playing, but that happened after the chickens were fed, the grain was ground, and if you didn't need to do some other chore. Even as late as the '60s, when I was a kid, it was not uncommon for school to let the farm kids skip a few days when it was time to get the hay in or harvest some other crop.
meara - Feb 22, 2008 6:37:33 am PST #5130 of 28344
I had Caddie Woodlawn! Love!