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I love this one so much. The whole family finally seems to be reaping benefits of their hard work and suffering over all the years.
I so loved watching Laura's affection for Almanzo grow. It gave me an inordinate amount of joy reading this book as an adult. Clearly she was cherished by Almanzo. I also love how her independence was celebrated, both by the way she drove the colts, and choosing not to "obey". This book was a delight.
I've read this book the night before so many milestones. I first read it in around first grade and as I came back to it the night before middle school, high school, senior year and my first day of university, I find a new sense of comfort. I can find no better descriptor for this book, and the whole series, than comforting. Laura's path to adulthood has informed my own.
As an elementary schoolchild, I found Laura and Almanzo's courtship to be the most romantic thing I had heard of. Years later, I laughed, horrified at Laura telling him that her acceptance "would depend on the ring". The real reason this is the book I return to, however, is that sense of the bittersweet. After so many years, Laura is setting out on her own– both to teach and to be married. It's that feeling–and the assurance that, because this is kind, clever, spunky Laura we will get through anything happily– that strikes just the right chord with me.
As an elementary schoolchild, I found Laura and Almanzo's courtship to be the most romantic thing I had heard of. Years later, I laughed, horrified at Laura telling him that her acceptance "would depend on the ring". The real reason this is the book I return to, however, is that sense of the bittersweet. After so many years, Laura is setting out on her own– both to teach and to be married. It's that feeling–and the assurance that, because this is kind, clever, spunky Laura we will get through anything happily– that strikes just the right chord with me.
Laura and Almanzo are truly the original relationship goals; I love them so much.
Read to Janna. One of the sweeter books with lots of happy memories, yet change still present. Still amazed that we can have pages that describe the dresses she and ma made. It must have been such a big deal to choose fabric and do that she wanted to tell all about it.
Reread to Janna this fall as she didn’t remember reading it. Must have gone to fast through it and not asked her any narration?! Very sweet again although now with Lïske in college the scenes with Mary contemplating change and Laura marrying and leaving home are all the more real.
Reread to Janna this fall as she didn’t remember reading it. Must have gone to fast through it and not asked her any narration?! Very sweet again although now with Lïske in college the scenes with Mary contemplating change and Laura marrying and leaving home are all the more real.
Dude, Laura wears a black dress for her wedding and refuses to promise to obey her husband!
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this book is even better rereading it i recently got engaged so reading about laura's experience really made it better :)