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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden
3.38 AVERAGE
134 reviews for:
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden
3.38 AVERAGE
I was surprised at how much I liked this book. I don't think I'd find it as interesting, though, if I didn't live in (or have some connection to) Colorado.
Too many proper nouns but the life experience is very interesting. My dad graduated from a one-room school in CO. somewhere around there about 15 years later, with 3 other seniors. Also enjoyed reading about the train travel through the Rockies. I love riding through Glenwood Canyon on Amtrak.
This was SO good. I may have cried a little at the end :)
I couldn't finish this book. It was agonizingly slow, and prattled on and on about too many things other than the subjects.
Enjoyed the story but can't help but think it could have been written with more ... something. Almost wish it were historical fiction so the story could truly come alive. it just didn't for me.
This was a quick and easy read. Its not earth-shattering or anything, but it's not supposed to be. It's fun, it's interesting, and it throws a little bit of American history into a fluffy little story about two young people having an adventure. The story is fascinating in part because we've all had those little glimpses into the very-long-ago lives or our grandparents or other elderly relatives and friends. The world was different then and personal stories like Nothing Daunted shine a real spotlight on this by getting down into the details (unlike a more expansive history of an era or country).
I must applaud Dorothy Wickenden (an editor herself) and the editors of her book for a job well done. It's absurd to be saying this, but I'm thrilled to have read a newly-published book free of typos and blatant grammatical errors! This is more a comment on the publishing industry in general than on the editors of this particular book doing anything above and beyond what they all should do.
Back to Nothing Daunted, I enjoyed it and am glad to have read it. I found it perfect pleasure-reading -- short, upbeat, and lightly educational.
Themes: 1900s, early American west, women, society, adventure, education, history
I must applaud Dorothy Wickenden (an editor herself) and the editors of her book for a job well done. It's absurd to be saying this, but I'm thrilled to have read a newly-published book free of typos and blatant grammatical errors! This is more a comment on the publishing industry in general than on the editors of this particular book doing anything above and beyond what they all should do.
Back to Nothing Daunted, I enjoyed it and am glad to have read it. I found it perfect pleasure-reading -- short, upbeat, and lightly educational.
Themes: 1900s, early American west, women, society, adventure, education, history
I kept putting this down and picking it back up again, and when I finally took it back to the library, I wasn't sorry. The story itself was really interesting: 2 New England society girls (graduates of Smith College) go west to teach school in the late 1910s/early 1920s, and the book is written by the granddaughter (or great g) of one of the main characters, so she has lots of info to back up her tale. But she takes too long to get to the meat of the story, meandering to Europe, a description of coal mining, et cetera. It just didn't hold my interest.
I found this boring and uninteresting. Having studied the American west in much greater depth than this book, I thought this book compared more with a Laura Ingalls Wilder book than an actual history.
I enjoyed the second half about teaching in Colorado, but the first part about lives of privilege back East bored me.
This one was tough for me to get into. I'd have never made it if I hadn't been "co-reading" with another book to keep me awake. There were interesting parts to the story of these nice two society girls who went to a primitive area of Colorado to teach for a year, and one ended up marrying a local man. Nice story, just a tad dull especially in the early chapters.