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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
emotional
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
While I enjoy adult Laura and love sharing a career with her (teacher), I enjoy Laura’s adventures as a child much more than a teenager and adult. I couldn’t give this book 5 stars, but I do still enjoy rereading the series. I do think this should have been the last book and it feels like she intended this to be the final book.
MVP: Carrie (Carrie was always my favorite sister).
MVP: Carrie (Carrie was always my favorite sister).
The previous book, Little Town on the Prairie, ended with Laura being offered a three-month teaching job, aged just 15. She knew she had to accept it because she desperately wants to help with the fees to keep Mary at the college for the blind, but this teaching post is in midwinter at a town 12 miles away from her home in De Smet, so she will have to live with strangers. And she’s so young still, she doesn’t even know how to teach.
This book really is all about watching Laura grow up, from 15 to 18, from that first teaching post to accepting any job she is offered to help Mary out, from being nervous of Almanzo’s interest in her to requiting it. After those first few months, there isn’t much that’s negative, but I still found this book deeply touching. I was caught up emotionally in Laura’s story and related to her in many ways, as she worries about being quieter than other girls, and therefore less interesting. But of course Almanzo likes her for her wild spirit and sense of adventure, which he shares. It seems the name “Wilder” was a bit of nominative determinism!
See my full review at: http://www.noseinabook.co.uk/2013/12/16/its-a-queer-thing-people-always-moving-west/
This book really is all about watching Laura grow up, from 15 to 18, from that first teaching post to accepting any job she is offered to help Mary out, from being nervous of Almanzo’s interest in her to requiting it. After those first few months, there isn’t much that’s negative, but I still found this book deeply touching. I was caught up emotionally in Laura’s story and related to her in many ways, as she worries about being quieter than other girls, and therefore less interesting. But of course Almanzo likes her for her wild spirit and sense of adventure, which he shares. It seems the name “Wilder” was a bit of nominative determinism!
See my full review at: http://www.noseinabook.co.uk/2013/12/16/its-a-queer-thing-people-always-moving-west/
I still recall sitting at my fifth grade desk and reading this. All about Laura and Almanzo's budding romance when he would drive her home from work. Terribly cute and not relatable at all, in that no one falls in love in a horse-drawn buggy anymore, nor does anyone feel competitive when another girl comes along for the ride etc., but also somehow so relatable. This was my favorite book in the Little House on the Prairie series and the one I would probably reread today. Truly classic.
adventurous
medium-paced
This is one of the most beautiful in the series, tenderly retelling the courtship of Laura and Almanzo, and bringing us through Laura’s thoughts as her relationship with him changes subtly over many years. Even 7 year old Will kept asking, “can we listen to more of these happy golden years?!”