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Book Review: The Good Earth

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 [...]

May 13th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Book Challenges, Books, Casual Classics, Decades 09 Book Challenge, Library Challenge, Read and Review Book Challenge | 8 comments

Book Review: The Long Winter

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 with blizzards and [...]

April 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Book Challenges, Books, Decades 09 Book Challenge, Read and Review Book Challenge | 4 comments

Book Review: The Way West

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 I thought it [...]

February 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Book Challenges, Books, Decades 09 Book Challenge, Library Challenge, Read and Review Book Challenge | One comment

Book Review: A Mysterious Affair at Styles

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 novels in order of [...]

February 17th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: 100+ Book Challenge, Agatha Christie Challenge, Book Challenges, Books, Decades 09 Book Challenge, Read and Review Book Challenge | 7 comments

Book Review: The Railway Children

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 time.
Being poor doesn’t [...]

January 20th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Book Challenges, Books, Decades 09 Book Challenge | 6 comments