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These are nice little stories, we just read the story of Pa and Mr. Scott digging the well. I can definitely see that these were written for a younger less mature crowd with the detail it goes into for the simple things. My duaghter is enjoying it though.

I finally got far enough in this book to order Anchee Min’s book that just came out “The Last Empress!” Lan Ping the heroine of this story starts her life with a love for acting and does whatever she can to get to be in her ideal role, including marrying and living with several men. She reminds me somewhat of Undine Spragg from Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton with her strong relentlessness to get whatever she wants no matter what the cost to others. This could change, but somehow I doubt that because Lan already mentions many of the people who had wronged her earlier on in the book and how she had them offed later on in the name of communism. Very intersting, will keep reading – not the greatest, but definitely worth the read. Hopefully the Last Empress is as good as I hope.

I absolutely adore Anchee Min as an author, she is one of my favorite authors of all time. This book has been on the backburner for so long with little ambition to read it. I have had it for 6 months now and actually started it back in December and am just picking it up now because I promised myself that i would read it in full before ordering the Last Empress by Anchee that came out this past week. I am enjoying the book and am picking up on a different writing technique on this one to.

We’ve only been reading on chapter a night about 4 nights a week and she has been wanting to read another more childish book, then is too tired for a second chapter. I am okay with this, as it is for her and I to spend time together and it is not like we need to finish these books rapidly fast either. I’ve been enjoying the parts about them finishing off the house and puting on a roof and the floor, not to mention, all the little animals skittering and scattering around.

We have been consistently getting through this book and are about 1/3 of the way done. A couple of things I have found interesting is that the book parralles very closely to the movie we watched a few weeks ago. I am really enjoying the wonder behind the simple life. I don’t like that pages and pages are dedicated to the explanation of things that I will never use which takes away from the story.. ie… how to build a chimney and fireplace. The wolf pack story was quite interesting and entertaining and so was the story about when they moved into their new home. Overall it is going well and we can’t wait to continue reading the series.

Okay, so I finally finished and I must say the ending the last 130 pages really made the book totatlly enjoyable. I almost didn’t want to finish reading it but I am glad that I did. What really added dimension to Annie’s journal was the fact that her friend Sammy got sick – not that this was a good thing, but it added the needed umph to the story. Unfortunately we find that Pammy did not beat her cancer in the end. I felt a little saddened about the fact that we didn’t get to hear the rest of Pammy’s story. I must say that it would be interesting for Lammott to do a follow up story to this so we can get a better idea of what Sam’s life was like after a year. Excellent job!!!

I read more of this book last night and to be honest it is just dragging on by and I don’t really want to read it. I will however finish it and do find it to be amusing in places. While it is in journal format, I find it quite interesting that the author is writing about her son’s first year of life and says what she feels. I wonder how her Sam felt when he read this later on in his life. She moves from love to hate, to love back and forth and calls him some pretty brutal names. Not to mention, it also amazes me, her being religious the language she uses. I guess that is just part of being human and I shouldn’t be judgemental on it at all because in a big sense I am the same way too.

Last night my daughter and I started this book, she was so excited. We read chapters 1 and 2 and I noticed that it is very much like the Little House on the Prairie movie that I just watched with her. I shall say however that the book sure wraps up the journey a heck of a lot quicker than the movie did. Looking forward to this book.

My daughter didn’t want me to read last night because she didn’t want me to finish the book. I’ll tell you this made me feel very good, because I did struggle to get her involved in the book in the first place. Tonight, we start Little House on the Prairie and I am happy about this because it not only gives us quality, educational time together, but helps me get her into a nighttime routine. I enjoyed the book, perhaps more than I thought I would. I do know that it gives me a lot to be thankful for in the way of modern conveinces and food. How a person could be heavy set in those times with all the physical labor and not too much in the way of fatty foods (they ate so many vegetables for dinner and not a lot of meat until winter) is beyond me. Excellent Read.

My daughter and I read Sugar Snow last night and enjoyed it immensely. I must say, I now know why these books grew on me as a kid. They are simple, yet engaging, and they can be read in sittings, as they are daily life driven and not plot driven. She now looks forward to our reads, which makes me happy because I didn’t think that this was going to work out and that she was too young. We are going to try and wrap this book up this week and start our next one next week.