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These Happy Golden Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I really enjoyed reading this book even though it meant that Laura's story in the Little House books was almost over. I love how grown up Laura was in the book. Teaching school at 15, living away from Ma and Pa with the crazy Brewsters (please tell me what happened to the wife and the knife!) courting with Almanzo, learning to drive his wild horses, teaching more school. As a child it all seemed interesting to me, and as a grown up who is in the same profession as Laura (teaching, not taming horses) I found it interesting to see how teacher's didn't have nearly as much schooling as we do today, and everyone seemed okay with that.
I did find think book to be a little bittersweet though, Laura married Almanzo and I will admit I shed a little tear when she was getting ready to move and having her LAST supper with the family. It was all so exciting and sad because it was the end. I know there is The First Four Years, but I have never really liked that book. Probably because Rose wrote most of it after Laura passed away...probably also because of the sadness in it. Happy Golden Years leaves the Wilders with such hope! I wish their lives had turned out a little better.
I did find think book to be a little bittersweet though, Laura married Almanzo and I will admit I shed a little tear when she was getting ready to move and having her LAST supper with the family. It was all so exciting and sad because it was the end. I know there is The First Four Years, but I have never really liked that book. Probably because Rose wrote most of it after Laura passed away...probably also because of the sadness in it. Happy Golden Years leaves the Wilders with such hope! I wish their lives had turned out a little better.