Living Well Is Only The Beginning Of My Revenge

pale_chartreuse has talked about re-reading The Little House on the Prairie books every now and then, and last night, I had the opportunity to re-read By the Shores of Silver Lake and it really has me thinking.

The first thing I'm thinking is that it is a fundamentally different experience to read these books as a grown woman with a household and family and marriage of my own than it was when I read Wilder when I was a wee little thing. I don't really give a damn, so much, about Laura and her...