I think it's a fair disclaimer to say that I have been a huge fan of Wendy McClure for many years, so I was very excited about this latest release. I knew going into it that it was a collection of short snippets, almost like an advice book gleaned from her studies of Little House on the Prairie. So I have no issue with the length or brevity of the book.

The writing, as always, is solid and more than once I laughed out loud. I'd say about 95% of the 'chapters' (each an individual essay) was really great and a nice piece of home-spun wisdom and sage advice. However, I have to admit (although it pains me) that there were a couple of chapters that fell short. Maybe the analogy was stretched too far? But it more felt like these were topics that were kind of "getting away from" the author and so she tried to write it quick before it vanished -- so what remains is more of an A+ idea resulting in a B+ grade. Nothing in the book is "bad" or unlikable, but some pieces felt like they have a bigger potential than what was committed to paper. Or e-paper, anyway.

I would recommend this to any McClure or LHOP fan - there's enough fodder (and explanation, thankfully) that you don't need any prior knowledge of LHOP to read it. It helps, obviously, if you know at least that Laura was a little girl living in the prairie and traveling across the wilderness with her family. Besides that, you don't have to know the books page-for-page to find the humor or enjoy this book.