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Forgive me for not responding sooner. I have been in the middle of a kitchen home remodel. When you suggested a read by date I did not know what to respond because I did not even have the book yet. I got the book from Amazon and I am reading it in my spare time I am about 2/3rds the way through it. It is a wonderful book and a great stress reliever. Thanks for keeping in touch with us, even though I did not respond for so long. I am excited to reread your review and post my review when I am done with the book. I am open to the idea of considering another book to read in the future.

Jeanine

Girl of the Limberlost sounds like it is getting the vote. I am open to all four Pride and Prejudice, Pastwatch, and Uncle Toms Cabin. I started reading Robin Hood for a quick read while we figured out what we were reading :). I am looking forward to this also!!

Anyone else want to vote on the read?

Nedra thanks for the recommendation of The Other Mother, I will read it sometime I am sure sounds great.

Jeanine

I have picked this book up many times, but I keep getting distracted and do not finish reading it.

When my DH read the book he seemed to hint at something going wrong at the end, so I read it in anticipation of a sad ending. It did not end sad at all. Maybe I got confused and he was talking about little britches, that one ends sad.

I really love the natural education of little sister. I love how she has so many poems of the McGuffey readers memorized. I purchased the McGuffey readers and we have had fun with them so far. Also inspired by little sister, we have been having allot of fun with poems in our homeschool. We read and memorize poems in our devotional. And now my kid s have started writing their own poems. We have been having allot of fun with this. I posted their poems on their blog.

I love how well trained the characters of little sisters family are. I cant get over this remark by mother"with all of our twelve never has there been one who and nine months of age did not stop crying if it's father lifted his finger, or tapped his foot and told it to." Goodness I need to work on my 2yo more.

I also LOVE the conversation that Mother has with Mr. Pryor it truly inspired me on womanhood. Mother is a great womanly example in general.

Speaking of her husband to Mr. Pryor
"But he is the whole of the kingdom, and the King to boot."
"Lucky man!" he said (Mr. Pryor) "All of us are not so fortunate."
This reminds me to always talk about my husband in the most positive way to people outside of our family. Especially to other women in the church talk very positive about my DH, because they are married to husbands, and they will tell what I say. And my DH will have dealings in the church with their husbands.

Mother speaks about educating her children to Mr. Pryor "From the start we have rigorously guarded our speech and actions before them. From the first tiny baby my husband has taught all of them to read, write and cipher some, before they went to school at all. He is always watching, observing, studying: the earth, the stars, growing things; he never comes to a meal but he has seen something that he has or will study out for all of us. There never has been one day in our home on which he did not read a new interesting article from book or paper; work out a big problem, or discuss some phase of politics, religion, or war. Sometimes there has been a little of all or it in one day, always reading , spelling, and memory exercises at night. He has a sister who twice in her life has repeated the Bible as a test before a committee. He, himself, can go through the New Testament and all of the Old save the books of the generations. He always says he considers it a waste of gray matter to learn them. He has been a schoolmaster, his home his school room, his children, wife and helpers his pupils; the common things of life as he meets them every day, the books from which we learn."

Well there is a great quote about how to educate your children if I have ever heard one :).

Oh, I love this section there is still more to quote.

"Before any daughter has left our home for one of her own, she has been taught all I know of cleanliness about a house, cookery sewing, tending the sick, bathing and dressing a new born. She has to bake bread, pie, cake, and cook any meat or vegetable we have. She has had her bolt of muslin to make as she chose for her bedding, and linen for her underclothing. The quilts she pieced and the blankets she wove have been hers. All of them have been as well provided for as we could afford. They can knit, darn, patch, tuck, hem, and embroider, set a hen and plant a garden. I go on vacation and leave each one to keep house for her father a month, before she enters a home of her own. They are strong, healthy girls; I hope all of them are making a good showing at being useful women, and I know they are happy, so far at least."

Wow how I do wish I spent more of my childhood learning to be a mother, instead of shipped off to school and missing all of the daily rhythm of the household.

There is also a great quote where she talks about how she makes her home as beautiful as possible but I can not find it right now.

Books like these makes me long for the old times. And inspires me in new ways to bring what was good about those days back into my life today.

Jeanine
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” ~ Aldo Leopold

Hello, I normally like to read one self help book and one novel at a time. I just finished my novel so that is what I am looking to read next. But I am open to other ideas.

This is what I am thinking sounds good to me right now.

Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Dickens, Great Expectations
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Wister, The Virginian

On my Goodreads to-read list these sounds good

A Girl of the Limberlost (Paperback) Porter, Gene Stratton
Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right (Paperback) Fuhrman, Joel
The Other Mother: A Novel (Hardcover) Gross, Gwendolen
The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet Classics (Paperback)) Wyss, Johann D.
Sarah: Women of Genesis (Mass Market Paperback) Card, Orson Scott
Emma Austen, Jane

I would love to hear other ideas, what does everyone else want to read or have on their to-read list.

Jeanine

I love allot of Cards books. I have read Pastwatch (yea one more book to add to my list, I love having a list complied of all the books I have read or want to read.)

I don't right off remember allot about the book, but if you talk about it I am sure it will jog my memory and we can discuss.

Ok, I know a very little bit. And I think this is one I will want to read. Help me out here. Who was Nicholas' father? What year is this taking place? Thanks.

YEa! Goodreads does send a group digest!

Nedra I enjoyed looking over your book list. The Other Mother sounds great... What is the book referring to when it says the other mother? Is there another mother in the picture, can you give me a bit more information on what it is about?

Salinda Nicholas and Alexandra sounds interesting, I studied Russian some and think I might enjoy reading a history book about it. What is your favorite Russian history book you have read?

We both read Dickens for Christmas this year :)! I would love to hear a bit about the Christmas Carol, your favorite message from it or something like that.

Hello! Kerry and I are BFF (HA, brings back middle school memories, Best Friends Forever, we need a secret handshake next.)

Goodreads needs to have a way to notify us if there are updates in here so we can keep track of it easier. Or I need to figure out how to get page feeds, or what ever you call it :).

I noticed, Salinda, you live in UT also. And if I am not mistaken I notice a hint of TJE influence in your book reading choices. Am I correct?

Kerry and I LOVE to read self help books, or novels that deal directly with issues we face as wives, mothers, homeschoolers, etc. We Love to read in a group setting also. We read
For Women Only with a group and LOVED IT. We tried to read Common Sense in a group, Kerry finished it but I never did. Many classics are available online for free. We got Common Sense emailed to us one chapter at a time.

Anyone else on here for a group read. Or some Good reads groups have several books they are reading. Maybe we could be loose and informal and post what we are reading individually and talk about it. Or maybe we can compare our profiles and talk about a book many of us have read.

Just brainstorming.

The Life of our Lord

I found this unique book recently. Reading it is a lovely experience. My children listen with great interest. They really think about what they are hearing. The other day my oldest said "I am so glad Jesus was born, everything in the world would be different if he was not."

Dickens wrote it in simple language just for his own kids. Like poetry, it gently moves through the life of Christ in a way that the kids get the most out of it.

Jeanine