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Lindsay C
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lindsay
Rogersville
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USA
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 Posted - Dec 03 2011 : 4:58:56 PM
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Jonni, I want to know where you took a Wilderness Lit class. That sounds awesome! What were some of the things you read for it?
Lindsay
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - Dec 03 2011 : 5:43:42 PM
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Trail Dancer--I just read your post on Huckleberry Finn. My grandpa supposedly swam across the Mississippi when he was young, and I personally know two men who have swam out to islands in the Mississippi and the river here is about a mile wide. So it can be done. My biggest concern would be from the pollution but I guess it wasn't a worry in the old days.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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traildancer
True Blue Farmgirl
485 Posts
Loyce
Glide
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USA
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Posted - Dec 16 2011 : 11:23:52 AM
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Thanks, prairiehawk. I hadn't checked this thread and missed your post.
I finished "All Quiet on the Western Front". Quite a different perspective from "our" side. It sounds as if the German army was not well-fed at all. My father-in-law fought in France and I don't remember him saying too much about the food although he did shoot deer for the guys. Also that the two sides sort of had a schedule--we'll shoot at you for a while, then you shoot at us. I'm sure it was awful for everyone involved.
This book makes me very thankful that the soldiers suffered for the rest of us. I am so grateful that I do not have to be cold, under-dressed, underfed, wet, shot at--all the horrible things of war. I appreciate what I have here in America.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who have served and who are still serving.
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buggysmum
True Blue Farmgirl
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Shelly
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Posted - Dec 17 2011 : 3:58:37 PM
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| I love Steinbeck, too. His books are both extremely accessible, beautifully written, and deep all at the same time. I just finished Travels With Charley, which is about his cross-country trip with his beloved dog. It gives a glimpse of America that is now lost in the past, for better and worse. I had always wanted to read it and was glad I did. |
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