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#StorySettings

I was pretty obsessed with this #Prairie book when I was young in the 70s & also the tv movie/mini-series it inspired .

Written by Rose Wilder Lane (the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder), it tells the story of Molly & David Beaton, teenage newlyweds in the Dakota Territory during the 1870s & originally was titled Let the Hurricane Roar when it was first published in the 1930s. Pictured is the edition of the book I had.

Just. Wow. Compiled journal entries and stories from the Kansas frontier, from the first settlers in mid 19th century through the civil war and women‘s suffrage. There are heartwarming tales of courage, family, and neighbors helping neighbors, as well as tales of fear and the horrors of life tens of miles away from the nearest neighbor. The isolation broke some women but empowered others. Makes me ever more grateful for modern creature comforts.

#bookspin and #doublespin were two unfulfilled prompt challenges - probably going with these. @TheAromaofBooks

struggling a bit with @booked2023 this season but realised I hadn't posted about this #bookbeginningwithw earlier this yr. A really compelling novella abt the exploration of the west of USA in early 1800s. A widower leaves his dtr on a mad trip to discover dinosaur bones reported in the paper while at home the risks are as great as he discovers. Well written + references the theft of native land well
@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @alisiakae

New #bookball episode just posted! It's one of the finer traditions we have on the There Will be Books podcast. We draft a baseball team comprised entirely of authors. Tolstoy at center field, Dumas at first base, etc. Pictured are selections from my Historians team.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZPzMaZUQ5NVfSzb95OFou?si=6-YGGlJsTIaSl3r3dPASo...

I started the Frances Tucket series today. Book 1: In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild. Book 2: Frances heads out on his own when he realizes he‘s no longer a boy but a man.

#Pantone2023
#MarchMadnessReadathon Day 13
#SeriesLove2023
#middlegrademarch @megnews

My husband's grandpa passed away yesterday he's in the Photo

Photo is from night before I found out I was pregnant with Aquamarina and the cow gave birth

Trigger Warning:
His best friend found him in the driveway he was on way to the barn most likely and medical examiner said either heart attack or heart stopped due to lack of oxygen due to his copd seconds after he walked by the door he was laying out there for a couple hours and I feel

📕 West by Carys Davies
🖊 Ware, Chris
🎬 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
🎤 Ware, Jessie
🎶 We Belong - Pat Benatar

#ManicMonday #LetterW
@CBee

A low pick for me, maybe too high expectations - I expected to love it; it was just good 🤷🏻‍♀️

Widower Cy Bellman heads into the American West, searching for living dinosaurs. His lonely young daughter is left behind in the care of her aunt. Despite the wide open spaces and big themes, this is a subtle novella, albeit with a surprising end. It would make for a great book club discussion.

Did I love it? No. It might just stay with me though.

I haven‘t read any other books about this time period in Australia. It‘s quite reminiscent of the push west by the white colonizers in North America, and in a lot of ways felt like an old west desert story.

Crushingly sad, but well written. The two brothers in the story start to lose their bond when a manipulative neighbor takes advantage of their tragedy.

So many trigger warnings.