A review by sherwoodreads
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim

Just the cheer-up I needed.

Many years ago, I worked on the same lot that Little House on the Prairie had their studio setup, so I used to see them around. (I took my sister, a huge fan, over their set once when they were all in the valley). Later, when I left the film industry and had my kid, I watched episodes on a tiny black and white while recovering from C-sec surgery.

So seeing Nellie Olson's scowling face on this book was a must-grab, and it was just as engrossing, and sometimes funny, always breezy, as promised. This is not completely easy-reading--it starts off with horrific child abuse, but matter-of-factly told, and later, she gets into what she did about it, and what she does now to help others caught in the same horror.

Her stories about the stars of the show, and what happened in various episodes, and on her visits to fans, are vivid and entertaining.