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vmfein
True Blue Farmgirl
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Valerie
Dale City
VA
USA
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 Posted - Apr 01 2011 : 06:43:02 AM
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I saw this book on Amazon (which is on pre-order sale right now) which comes out on April 14. This women discovers the Little House on the Prairie books and writes a memoir about her then traveling the routes and trying some of the prairie life. It sounds interesting, here is the link and product description of the book.
http://www.amazon.com/Wilder-Life-Adventures-Little-Prairie/dp/product-description/1594487804/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
Product Description
For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession.
Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder-a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she's never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family- looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She immerses herself in all things Little House, and explores the story from fact to fiction, and from the TV shows to the annual summer pageants in Laura's hometowns. Whether she's churning butter in her apartment or sitting in a replica log cabin, McClure is always in pursuit of "the Laura experience." Along the way she comes to understand how Wilder's life and work have shaped our ideas about girlhood and the American West.
The Wilder Life is a loving, irreverent, spirited tribute to a series of books that have inspired generations of American women. It is also an incredibly funny first-person account of obsessive reading, and a story about what happens when we reconnect with our childhood touchstones-and find that our old love has only deepened.
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Apr 01 2011 : 07:26:51 AM
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That looks like a nice book to have. I went on Amazon and read about it. I will put it on my list.
nancy Jo
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
2817 Posts
Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
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textilelover
True Blue Farmgirl
557 Posts
Dianne
Middletown
NY
USA
557 Posts |
Posted - Apr 02 2011 : 02:49:40 AM
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I love all the LIW books, so I will definitely read this one! Dianne in the Hudson Valley
Sister #749
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." --Leondardo da Vinci |
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
808 Posts |
Posted - Apr 12 2011 : 4:36:21 PM
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| saw this, have it ordered from the library love laura ingalls |
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alterationsbyemily
True Blue Farmgirl
691 Posts
Emily
Chambersburg
PA
USA
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Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 6:03:15 PM
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I really don't like to purchase books so I put it on my paperbookswap.com wishlist. Thanks for this, we are reading the Little house set right now to my three year old. You should have seen the look on her face when I had to explain how someone would eat a bear.
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
2817 Posts
Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Apr 14 2011 : 11:03:49 PM
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lol I can tell you the look probably wasn't too much different then when people actually ate bear.
I will never forget a story my aunts (mom's sisters) tell to this day. They grew up eating squirrel brains, and fish, and wild hog, etc, but I even though I know bears are in the ozarks I don't know why my grandparents never killed them for food. But, one day they went to visit my grandpa's brother, and he had killed a bear, and apparently it had just been that day! And blood was every where like a masacare had happened cause the bear was so big. It scared the wits out of my aunts, they thought people had been murdered and they would be too. They were scared to death when they found out it was their uncle had killed a bear for the family to eat! lol haha This was back in the 1930's-1940's. Hilarious I tell you! lol haha And they said the smell was atrocious as well. I don't know if it was true, or if it was their little girls imagination gone wild, when they seen all the blood! lol haha
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
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Posted - May 29 2011 : 06:06:09 AM
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| just finished this book, liked it,reminded me of being a young girl so enthralled with Laura's prairie life. our parents took us to see her home in Mansfield one summer |
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patchworkpeace
True Blue Farmgirl
478 Posts
Judy
Jackson
Michigan
USA
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Posted - May 31 2011 : 1:21:59 PM
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I've added it to my to-read list --- it looks like a fun read!
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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kathleenshoop
True Blue Farmgirl
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kathleen
oakmont
pa
USA
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