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[vr_trakowski]

My power's back on, yayyy! 

But being without is really boring.  Not so much because all my electronics were down, as that it's really hard to read by flashlight and all my candles are designed for smell, not light.  Though I'm not sure anyone designs candles for light output anymore, at least around here.  

So I pulled some Laura Ingalls Wilder off my shelf half at random, and stuck with it in part because it has a larger font, though it's also enjoyment.  I find the racism objectionable, though it is a product of the times, but it's interesting to note that in Little House on the Prairie the African-American doctor is not portrayed the same way as the Native Americans.  Through Laura's eyes he is..."alien" has negative connotations, but it fits for a six-year-old who had seen very few people her entire life to date, and most of them relatives.  

It's been so long since I've read them that there were bits I'd forgotten, and bits I remembered quite vividly.  Leeches, yeck (that's Plum Creek, lest someone think I didn't).  I've moved on to Farmer Boy--it's not like they're long books--and the differences are sharp.  Almanzo's family was much wealthier, for one thing.  And the food!  There is so much food in Farmer Boy, and it all sounds so good.  *snicker*  I always wanted to try growing a milk-fed pumpkin myself.  

Comments

[cincoflex.livejournal.com]

Some reviewer I read years ago stated that all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books were just loving descriptions of food with plot wedged between them, and sometimes I wonder if they were on to something there.

And of course, there's the Laura Ingalls Wilder cookbook, which is fun to read as well!

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

Given that (predicating that the books are based on reality) she and her family nearly starved to death in a winter eating nothing but ground wheat, I can't blame her for obsessing a little!

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

Yay for power! :-) I know I read some of the "Little House on the Prairie" books when I was younger but I don't really remember them.

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

They have their moments--in part for a good look at the times, if at a child's reading level. I enjoy them.

Have LOTS of fun at the con!!

[boubabe14.livejournal.com]

Farmer Boy takes me back so far, I can't see myself! Glad you are OK and power restored. We've got a depression to the west and Katia to the east now. I feel like a rain soaked sandwich :-)

[cluesby4.livejournal.com]

I loved this series. And Farmer Boy was wonderful

I even was able to find a book that includes a collection of Wilder family recipes.