swoody788 's review for:

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
4.0

While the tone of [b:My Ántonia|17150|My Ántonia|Willa Cather|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389151307s/17150.jpg|575450] was mostly happy with a few sad parts, this one seems to be the opposite, with an overlying sad tone with a few lighthearted parts...but I still really liked it. Once again the prose is just beautiful and I'm wondering why I haven't read Cather's works sooner. Looking forward to [b:The Song of the Lark|48214|The Song of the Lark|Willa Cather|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388631383s/48214.jpg|1385675].

"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it—for a little while."



Fortunate country, that is one day to receive hearts like Alexandra's into its bosom, to give them out again in the yellow wheat, in the rustling corn, in the shining eyes of youth!