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.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
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."
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."
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!
Ginger - Feb 22, 2008 8:10:10 am PST #5131 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Do you mean pioneers in the West, Aimee, or would that include early New England books such as The Witch of Blackbird Pond?
Aims - Feb 22, 2008 8:10:58 am PST #5132 of 28344
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Any pioneers, really. I'll add that one to the list.
Ginger - Feb 22, 2008 8:25:16 am PST #5133 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Elizabeth George Speare also wrote Calico Captive, which was loosely based on a real Indian captivity story.