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patchworkpeace
True Blue Farmgirl
478 Posts
Judy
Jackson
Michigan
USA
478 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 12 2011 : 07:06:14 AM
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I just started reading The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott and am enjoying it. It's a nice curl up and read book, great for a cold, snowy winter!
Annie, have you seen the video from one man's wilderness. Our local library had it. It was interesting to see where he was, etc.
Success is measured not by the position one reaches but by the obstacles one has to overcome to reach it. Booker T. Washington |
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K-Falls Farmgirl
Chapter Leader
2096 Posts
Cheryl
Klamath Falls
Oregon
USA
2096 Posts |
Posted - Jan 12 2011 : 5:34:24 PM
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Hey chickies I have not been on this forum in ages.. Right now I am getting ready to read the Forgotten Garden. I popped on to see if anyone has read the Dirty Life.. I loaned it to my mom it's a great farming story..
Cheryl
Farmgirl #309
Klamath Falls "Charming Chicks Chapter" Mother Hen
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CurlysQuilts
True Blue Farmgirl
569 Posts
Sarah
Northeast Kingdom
VT
USA
569 Posts |
Posted - Jan 12 2011 : 5:45:29 PM
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Judy, my hubby just got me A Long Fatal Love Chase by Lousia May Alcott. So good and very different for her, but I loved it. I highly recommend it if you are a fan.
Currently am reading The Road to Yesterday by LM Montgomery. Very good collection of her short stories.
Sarah
Curly's Quilts
www.curlysquilts.etsy.com
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” - Micah 6:8
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3335 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3335 Posts |
Posted - Jan 12 2011 : 6:47:39 PM
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Right now I am reading The Bones of Plenty by Lois Phillips Hudson. This takes place in Eureka, North Dakota depicting a tenant farmer, his wife and two small daughters.
It's hard for me to sum up so far but reading it is kind of like getting the wind knocked out of you-
Here is what the New York Times review said:
"It is possible...that literary historians of the future will decide that The Bones of Plenty was the farm novel of the Great Drought of the 1920's and 1930s and the Great Depression. Better than any other novel of the period with which I am familiar. Hudson's story presents the frightful disaster that closed thousands of rural banks and drove farmers of their farms, the hopes and savings of a lifetime in ruins about them."
It's very well written but at times a difficult book to read-because it is so frustrating and disheartening-Reminds me of Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath.
When I finish this I want to read Reapers of the Dust-A Prairie Chronicle also written by her.
Melody
Farmgirl #525
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jan 12 2011 : 8:18:26 PM
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Next semester for school we are reading Their Eyes Were Watching God. Has anyone read it? I'm also still reading my pre-emams books because I haven't really had a chance to read the past week or so  But now I have more time to read!
God's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. |
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patchworkpeace
True Blue Farmgirl
478 Posts
Judy
Jackson
Michigan
USA
478 Posts |
Posted - Jan 13 2011 : 05:32:18 AM
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Sarah, thanks for the recommendation. I never knew she wrote a book by that title! Now I have to see if I can find it. When I was kid I'd read Eight Cousins and Little Women almost every year. I love those stories!
Melody, what you're reading sounds like my kind of book. I love overcoming hardship stories. I'm going to check and see if the library has it.
Judy
Farm Sister 932
Success is measured not by the position one reaches but by the obstacles one has to overcome to reach it. Booker T. Washington |
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gentlewoman farmer
True Blue Farmgirl
66 Posts
Judy
Bakersfield
Ca
USA
66 Posts |
Posted - Jan 13 2011 : 5:54:29 PM
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I have just finished two books, on The Reciepe Club, they are reading it on the DO you want to form a book club on this section. I didnt like it too much. The best book I have read in 20 years is the one I just finished. UNBROKEN A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand. (She wrote Seabiscuit.) This is a true story of a man that ran in the Olympics just before the war, was shot out of a US AirForce bommer in the the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and spent years in a prisoner of war camp, you would think that would be enough of a story for a book, but what happened to this man and what he did after the war is just unbelievealbe. He is still alive and is in his late ninetys. If you can get it, it is food for thought and it csn impact your life. I got mine off Amazon.com as a used book so it wasnt much.
Be good to yourself and be good to this earth.
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jan 13 2011 : 9:04:40 PM
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Judy, I'm going to start the Recipe Club as soon as I get it from my library!
God's and Farmgirl's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. |
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vermont v
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Victoria
Chester
Vermont
USA
194 Posts |
Posted - Jan 14 2011 : 8:08:03 PM
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I can hardly wait to read the Unbroken. I loved Seabiscuit! Right now I'm reading a book By Charlotte Gray called the Gold Diggers about the Alaskan Gold Rush ,specifically the Klondike. She writes well an there are lots of interesting characters in the book; all true including Jack London. I really like non fiction. |
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patchworkpeace
True Blue Farmgirl
478 Posts
Judy
Jackson
Michigan
USA
478 Posts |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 06:56:37 AM
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I finished the Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott and enjoyed it very much. Now I'm listening to the audio version of A Thousand Splendid Suns by K. Hosseini. It's setting is Afghanistan and it is about an illegitimate girl who is married off to an older man when she is 15 because her father's 3 wives don't want her in the house.
Success is measured not by the position one reaches but by the obstacles one has to overcome to reach it. Booker T. Washington |
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3335 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
3335 Posts |
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 1:59:36 PM
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I love Willa Cather!! I just finished re-reading "No Time on My Hands" by Grace Snyder - autobiographical book about homesteading in Nebraska, it's really good and two of her neighbors were relatives of Willa Cather, which then reminded me I should reread her books.
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 3:55:40 PM
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I am reading "Fireflies in December" by Jenifer Erin Valent. It is a WONDERFUL book, the first in a 3-part series. Hope to be able to read the other 2 after I finished this one. Not sure because our library doesn't carry them.
http://www.jennifervalent.com/
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
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Almost daily updates on me, my home and my crafts
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njaw09
True Blue Farmgirl
397 Posts
Annie
NJ
USA
397 Posts |
Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 9:17:24 PM
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I finally finished reading about "more readings from one man's wilderness-the journals of richard proenneke 1974-1980".
Now I am starting "beatrix potter-a life in nature" by linda lear. |
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Lindsay C
True Blue Farmgirl
117 Posts
Lindsay
Rogersville
AL
USA
117 Posts |
Posted - Jan 23 2011 : 07:33:56 AM
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I am in the middle of reading The Elm Creek Quilts series. I'm hooked! It's different from what I usually read, but they're nice pleasant reads that don't require a lot of extra thought. I sure wish I knew how to quilts, but that's a skill I never picked up myself.
Lindsay
Farmgirl Sister #1452 |
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Greenwoman
True Blue Farmgirl
55 Posts
Michelle
Oregon
USA
55 Posts |
Posted - Jan 23 2011 : 12:17:20 PM
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Oh books, my fave topic. I have sort of schizophrenic reading tastes--I read a lot of farm/environmentalist type books, and then . . . a lot of urban fantasy.
I just finished (and by "just" I mean a couple of hours ago) Robin McKinley's Dragonhaven. I think Robin McKinley is probably my favorite fiction author, or one of them.
At the same time, I'm reading Gaia's Garden--a Guide to Homescale Permaculture, and All About Love by bell hooks. And I have a collection of Native American folktales waiting for me. I like to think of myself as well rounded . . . and I don't JUST mean my hips . . . ha!
Michelle
http://greenwoman.wordpress.com |
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Lindsay C
True Blue Farmgirl
117 Posts
Lindsay
Rogersville
AL
USA
117 Posts |
Posted - Jan 23 2011 : 12:43:58 PM
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Wow, Michelle. You really do have diverse tastes!
Lindsay
Farmgirl Sister #1452 |
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Greenwoman
True Blue Farmgirl
55 Posts
Michelle
Oregon
USA
55 Posts |
Posted - Jan 23 2011 : 2:37:34 PM
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Lindsay C, sometimes it makes for strange mental gymnastics. I once dreamed that I was a superhero farmer, blasting evil marauding faeries off my land with light rays from my hands. I can't even remember what I was reading at the time . . . LOL
Michelle
http://greenwoman.wordpress.com |
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2011 : 6:43:33 PM
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Michelle, that's too funny! But I too have diverse tastes in books.
God's and Farmgirl's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. |
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TheresaB
True Blue Farmgirl
393 Posts
Theresa
Loveland
Colorado
USA
393 Posts |
Posted - Jan 24 2011 : 7:48:37 PM
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Ok, what an amazing thread . . . I have now compiled a book list that will last quite a while! I work part-time and homeschool my 3 children, so don't have nearly as much time to read as I would like.
I'll cast my vote in the thumbs up column for e-readers. I was one of those who said I'd never like one, need a real book in my hands. My dh bought me a nook and I fell in love! It can hold something like 2000 books. I got a cover for it that opens and closes like a book and keeps the nook snug and safe. I can add new books right then and there from the nook (ok, yes, this is a bit dangerous for us bibliovores!). Also, you can get tons of free public domain books on e-readers. With the nook you can go into Barnes and Noble and read free from thousands of books while in the store.
I'm halfway through "Trials of the Earth: The Autobiography of Mary Hamilton" in real book form. It's "a Mississippi Delta woman's wrenching memoirs of love, courage and survival". Loving it!
On my nook I'm currently reading "Angel Time" by Anne Rice (of Interview with a Vampire fame, converted back to Christianity) and this book is amazing!
Theresa in Colorado
Proud Farmgirl Sister #124
www.thegypsysdaughter.etsy.com
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"I see skies of blue, clouds of white, the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night, and I think to myself, "What a Wonderful World!" ~ Louis Armstrong |
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jan 25 2011 : 7:27:39 PM
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Ooh Theresa, the memoir sounds good!
God's and Farmgirl's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. |
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vmfein
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Valerie
Dale City
VA
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Jan 26 2011 : 3:06:21 PM
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| I love reading and also love to watch Masterpiece Classic Theatre miniseries based on classical literature. I decided this year to finally start reading some of the books which I liked the miniseries on PBS. So right now I am reading Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. |
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knittinchick
True Blue Farmgirl
1854 Posts
Megan
Wisconsin
1854 Posts |
Posted - Jan 26 2011 : 8:26:33 PM
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Valerie, I would like to start reading classic books as well. At my high school, we actually have a class dedicated to Shakespeare, so I would eventually like to take that as a junior or senior.
God's and Farmgirl's Blessings,
Megan aka Loretta Rae
At heart, I am both a sassy city girl and a down-home country gal.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. |
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vmfein
True Blue Farmgirl
247 Posts
Valerie
Dale City
VA
USA
247 Posts |
Posted - Jan 26 2011 : 8:47:00 PM
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| I remember my class read Romeo and Juliet when I was in high school. They have different english language books of it, but my teacher made us read it in the shakespeare english. That was a little hard to understand. |
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Greenwoman
True Blue Farmgirl
55 Posts
Michelle
Oregon
USA
55 Posts |
Posted - Jan 28 2011 : 08:03:15 AM
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I've just started re-reading Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes. The subtitle is "Reclaiming domesticity from the consumer culture". It's about people who choose home making as a method of working for social justice and ecological sustainability, and who endeavor to return the household to a unit of production more than a unit of consumption. I read it last year in a big ole hurry, and now I want to read it again more slowly. I highly recommend it to anyone who is trying to live a more sane, land-honoring, community-centric life.
Michelle
http://greenwoman.wordpress.com |
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