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Back to the Prairie
Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered | Melissa Gilbert
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The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a new hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic. Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, Melissa begins to fall back in love with nature. And when work takes them to New York, they find a rustic cottage in the Catskill Mountains to call home. But rustic is a generous description for the state of the house, requiring a lot of blood, sweat, and tears for the newlyweds to make habitable. When the pandemic descends on the world, it further nudges Melissa out of the spotlight and into the woods. She trades Botox treatments for DIY projects, power lunching for gardening and raising chickens, and soon her life is rediscovered anew in her own little house in the Catskills.
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Crystal83
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I really wanted to love this book, because I watched Melissa Gilbert as Laura growing up. For 276 pages it took me three days to finish this book. I have almost DNF the book a couple of times cause I was getting bored with it. It had some great parts in it. But some of it was annoying to me. I rated this book a 3 out of 5 stars.

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mcctrish
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I really enjoyed this. I had no idea she was married to Timothy Busfield 😱 I was almost not ready to listen to their early pandemic struggles ( the same as all of us ) since it‘s still here but I guess it shows we have made progress from those early days

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mcctrish
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Section 5 is a big one and I‘m almost done this audio book ( MG makes me so hungry ) weather is all over the place today and after grey skies and rain, the sun is out so it‘s time to go outside

BookBabe Sounds like an interesting book! Also, is this some kind of Lego folk art? Looks neat! 2y
mcctrish It‘s a great audio book ( Melissa Gilbert talks about her third marriage and surviving some health issues and the pandemic) this Lego set is based on Van Gogh‘s painting The Starry Night. It‘s amazing 2y
ShelleyBooksie That Lego is soooo cool! 2y
mcctrish @ShelleyBooksie I hope Lego makes more ‘art‘ sets 🙏🏻🙏🏻 2y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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I read Gilbert‘s first memoir as an ebook and listened to the second. All in two weeks. Full disclosure, we‘re the same age. So I loved her pop culture references. Yes, her privilege is vast, but she also tries to do good in the world. And she‘s dealt with addiction, chronic pain, and some really shitty husbands too. So it‘s not all sunshine and Half Pint.

My full and combined review is at https://www.TheBibliophage.com

#thebibliophage2022

Ruthiella I‘m her/your age too. It‘s funny how we think of these celebrities we‘ve grown up with as somehow acquaintances. Brooke Shields and Phoebe Cates are also my “friends”. 😂 2y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Ruthiella For sure. Definitely felt this for Brooke and all of the Brat Pack folks. I have a bunch of their memoirs but have been holding some for when I need a “comfort read.” 2y
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Wife
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Mehso-so

This Pandemic Lockdown memoir was very reminiscent of those family update letters that people send in Christmas cards. A lot of mundane minutiae that had my eyes rolling 🙄. This is how the very privileged spent lockdown if you‘re interested. I was a bit jealous, and wished I could have stayed home too.

I think a much more interesting book would be compilation of Pandemic lockdown stories from people of all walks of life. 2/5 😷s

Wife @Hooked_on_books Thank you. I‘ve put it on my TBR. 2y
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Megabooks
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This feel-good pandemic memoir didn‘t quite do it for me.

Melissa and her husband bought a fixer upper in upstate New York before the pandemic hit. This is the story of her and hubby‘s life going back to the farm and being (mostly 🤷🏻‍♀️) Covid safe. Interesting that she and Jennifer Grey had the same neurosurgeon. She has some Half Pint encounters with animals, which were cute, but definitely a #BorrowNotBuy imo.

Cinfhen I heard so-so reviews on this one - I think I‘ll pass 2y
Suet624 Why did she and Grey need neurosurgeons? 2y
Megabooks @Cinfhen I can support that. 😉 2y
Megabooks @Suet624 both were in accidents that caused cervical disc problems. 2y
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