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  Long, Bright River by Liz Moore - I enjoyed The God of the Woods by the same author so much that I decided to read this earlier book, pu...

I've been sporadically rereading my favorite Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder over the past several years, and just finish...

I absolutely loved Marta McDowell's new book, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Li...

Mailbox Monday  is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. Warning: Mailbox ...

Now that we're in the final days of 2016 and Christmas and post-Christmas vacation to Florida are looming, I'm trying to tie up loos...

Reading Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Pamela Smith Hill was an absolute delight and a mi...

A Wilder Rose , by Susan Wittig Albert, is a fictional take on Rose Wilder Lane and her relationship with her mother, Laura Ingalls ...

Every Tuesday, Diane at   Bibliophile by the Sea  hosts First Chapter-First Paragraph in which she, and those of us who join her,  post...

Mailbox Monday is hosted by 4 the LOVE of BOOKS --stop by the site to see what other bloggers just added to their TBR shelves. I pick...

For someone who spent the better part of my life avoiding reading Little Women and hence Louisa May Alcott, I seem to have been doing a...

It's starting to feel like I signed up to do a Laura Ingalls Wilder reading challenge. First I reread Little House in the Big Woods (th...

I'm not sure whether I'm just a bit of a coward or whether I just shy away from offending others in an effort to keep the peace, b...