The Good Earth is the story of a humble Chinese farmer, Wang Lung. The story opens with Wang Lung’s hopeful and excited thoughts on the day of his wedding. He finally has enough money to buy a slave, O-Lan, for his wife. Although she has been a slave since the age of ten, O-Lan is [...]
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The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder Harper and Row, 1940 The last time I read this book it was the late 1970′s. We were living in the country near St. Joseph, Missouri with our vegetable garden and our animals and we too had chores to do twice a day. It was an extremely cold winter [...] The Way West A. B. Guthrie, Jr. William Sloane Associates, 1949 This story about a wagon train to Oregon was not what I expected. First of all, let me explain that I read this for the Decades Challenge (1940′s). I’d added a western into the mix for variety sake. Even though it won a Pulitzer [...] The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Penguin Books, 1920 (The picture here is from the audiobook cover. It was prettier than the paperback cover.) I’ve read a lot of Agatha Christie’s books over the years but this year I joined an interesting challenge. The challenge is to read every single one of her [...] The Railway Children by Edith Nesbitt Sea Star Books, 1906 So many things happen in this tale of three children and their mother. They have moved from their wealthy villa near London to an isolated village somewhere in the English countryside. They are suddenly very poor and their father is mysteriously away for a long [...] |
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