#Girl of Limberlost

[fictionadventurer]

Reasons I want to write a version of Jane Eyre that ends with Jane becoming a nun

She's used to living in an all-female community with basic attire

She has academic and artistic interests

She's religious

She needs a better religion than whatever Helen Burns had going on

She wouldn't have to marry Rochester

It would piss off Charlotte Bronte

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[sparrow-in-the-library]

Copyright 1909 - Doubleday, Page & Company

The world is full of happy people, but no one ever hears of them. You must fight and make a scandal to get into the papers. No one knows about all the happy people. I am happy myself, and look how perfectly inconspicuous I am.

[ezura-knightshade]

One of my all time favourite trope is: Old grumpy person lives as an outcast from society (usually by choice) and they eventually become a old happy person because some obnoxiously happy child squirmed their way into the said old persons house (and heart).

Examples of this trope are: Grandfather from Heidi, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert from Anne of Green Gables (mostly Marilla), Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House, and Mother from The Girl of The Limberlost.

Now that I go over this list I see that only Eda and Grandfather fit the criteria lmao.

[sleepnoises]

i read Smothermoss recently on @alizalayne's suggestion—i found it enjoyably tapped in to Tween Magic, Weird Girlism, and The Woods—and the engine in my brain that makes silly comparisons churned out "kinder Chouette" and then "outdoorsy weirdgirling like that one book I read multiple times as a kid and can't recall the name of" and many minutes of desperate googling led me to rediscover that was A Girl of the Limberlost, published 1909, "a classic of Indiana literature." I've never been to Indiana

[theinquisitxor]

If I Could Only Keep 20 Books, Here Are The Ones I Would Pick Tag Game:

A booktuber I sometimes watch, Chandler Ainsley, did a video titled this, and it prompted me to think about what books I would pick. As someone with almost 400 books, I thought this would be a fun challenge. I'm going to try to make it into a tag game, and see how it does.

The Twenty Book Challenge:

If you could only keep 20 books (physical/ebook/audio), which would be the ones you would keep?

Rules are simple:

1 book per author. 1 book per series. Tag #twenty books challenge

Tagging (no pressure): @yourneighborhoodbibliophile @e-b-reads @the-forest-library @ninja-muse @sixofravens-reads @ofliterarynature + anyone who wants to do this!

list of books in photo below the cut:

The Children's Book by AS Byatt

If W Were Villians by ML Rio

Babel by RF Kuang

Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgen Burnett

The Return of the King by JR Tolkien

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Wintersong by SJ Jones

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Fire by Kristin Cashore

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

The Naming by Allison Croggon

Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher

Thick as Thieves by Meghan Whalen Turner

Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Kristin Lavrensdatter, book 1 by Sigrid Undset

Heart's Blood by Juliet Mariller

[glowing-disciple]

Reading List - 2025

Currently Reading:

Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman

Digital Logic and State Machine Design by David J. Comer

Books Read:

Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt by Robert A. Armour

Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor

Future Reading:

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez

Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan

Anne of Green Bagels by Susan Schade and Jon Buller

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress

The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Clearly

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Blade Itself by Joe Ambercrombie

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Carmilla by Josphen Sheridan Le Fanu

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Cranfod by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire

Dancing with Siva by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Dark Journey Deep Grace by Roy Ratcliff

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena by St. Catherine

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Evolution by Nowell Stebbing

Expressionism by Ashley Bassie

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Freaks on the Fells by R. M. Ballantyne

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Good Hunting by Theodore Roosevelt

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by Fr. A. G. Sertillanges

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala

Joan Miro by Joan Miro

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Life of St Catherine of Siena by Blessed Raymond of Capua

Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Living by the Sword by Eric Demski

The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Middlemarch by George Eliot

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly

Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery

Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Return of the Thief by Megan Turner

The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort

The Shining by Stephen King

Show Me God by Fred Heeren

The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Liseux

The River by Gary Paulsen

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger

Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill

The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd

The White Mountains by John Christopher

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

[ladytauria]

tauria!! 9, 14, 21, 74, 80, 84, 104, 122 from the book rec ask game please <33

ahhh thank you maya!

9. your favourite book of 2020

ahh, i'm actually going to answer this for---last year, because i remember it and also bc i hit my reading goal last year!!

so my actual answer would be nona the ninth, but as i have already rec'd gideon to bean and mentioned harrow in this list, i shan't count it.

s o.

i think i'm gonna go with The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski, which is part one of a duology. the first is a retelling of cinderella, the second of sleeping beauty.

the first, to me, was much more enjoyable than the second, although i deeply enjoyed both. the first is singular pov, the second is split (i liked the LI's more!)

the book takes place on an island which is segregated into three classes / rings, each of which enjoys a vastly different quality of life than the other. the protagonist lives in the lowest class, where, if you're charged with a crime, no matter the severity, the guards can take any tribute they ask---from a few strands of hair to some blood to an eye, etc. she works with her guardian to help sneak people out of the lower ring and into the upper rings, and has always yearned for a taste of them hersellf. after spending a night in prison, she meets an outsider--the first on the island in many years--who helps her achieve just that.

also the plot twist in this book is. amazing.

14. a book that made you trip on literary acid

like. in the most positive way possible.

Harrow the Ninth.

look. i wasn't going to rec sequels. i wasn't.

but oh my god.

i walked away from this book with a headache and i said thank you ms. muir <3

(runner up answer would be the stars are legion, bc. oof. that book was a mind-fuck. again? best way possible. but also. damn.)

21. a book with a red cover

literally the first book that came to mind was Eldest, of the Inheritance Cycle.

(i was going to answer with "witches of ash & ruin by e. latimer" but my kindle cover is now blue -.- and uglier, imo. whatever.)

but, uh. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett!! i started the discworld series with the tiffany aching series, and i highly recommend <3 the nac mac feegles make me giggle so much <3

also i deeply love tiffany and all of the things that pterry conveys through her <3

74. your favourite love triangle

i didn’t forget to answer this before i clicked post wdym

this is hard!!! ngl i actively avoid love triangles in books after being so inundated with them during some of my peak reading years lmao

ahhh but

i actually didn’t mind how the love triangle was handled in the early throne of glass books!

i don’t necessarily recommend those but i was. obsessed with them for a time xD

80. a book that reminds you of a loved one

i technically answered this on bean's! that would be "a girl of the limberlost" or "the secret garden" bc they both remind me of my mom.

also almost any murder mystery will remind me of her, as those were her favorite genre.

u h m. but to name a different book; i think of my brother every time i see a riordanverse book, particularly the Percy Jackson <3 i let him borrow my copies (i've. mostly forgiven him for their now beat up / falling apart state) and watching him develop his first otp / devour them was so sweet <3

104. a fluffy, sweet read

so i didn't technically rec it on bean's list, i just mentioned it.

Legends And Lattes - Travis Baldree! cozy, slice of life fantasy with a sapphic romance. an orc retires from adventuring to open a coffee shop in a city that's never heard of coffee. (its a gnomish thing.) has a lot of dnd-like setting things and so much found family <3

also it made me hungry, so like. have ur favorite warm drink & pastries on hand when you read it bc you may also end up wanting them <3

122. your favourite winter read

hmmm.

okay so first! um. when i think winter / autumn / summer / spring read i don't necessarily think about season in the book itself, but rather like... how i feel during those seasons. so! autumnal reads i prefer spookier vibes; summer i want lighter books i don't have to focus too much on bc the heat has melted my brain; and for winter i want books that are good for spending a long time under blankets, so. chunkier the better. (i don't know what a spring read is to me.)

i am going to answer this one with two books!

the first i have not actually read -- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, which is a fucking beast of a book. i am... about 20%? through it? i think? but i had to put it down bc i couldn't give it the full attention it deserved. however, i think, due to its size, it would be a lovely book to devour over a handful of snowy days, curled up in blankets <33

the second i have read, and i actually wouldn't call this one chunky, but. i dunno. it's made for a nice evening read, i think. anyway! The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKilip.

[ book rec ask game ]

[fictionadventurer]

Reads ask: 18 and 22!

18. A book where you like the adaptation or an element therein better than the book itself

I like the movie of The Wild Robot better than the book. I'm surprised at how well it retains the spine of the story while changing and improving and enhancing so much around it.

22. A highly-praised or beloved book you hate

I'd heard only praise for Girl of the Limberlost, partly because it's an obscure book these days, but I wound up kind of hating it. The heroine's a Mary Sue, the book pushes a weird position that her childhood of abuse was a good thing, and the way a lot of characters acted seemed just slightly to the left of how normal, sane people would act, which made it feel like the book was set on a planet of uncanny-valley aliens.

[celebrateeachnewday]

My 2023 Booklist

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman

The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD by Jonas Jonasson

The Keeper of The Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

Light Of The Western Stars by Zane Grey

The Rustler Of Pecos County by Zane Grey

Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

[erving-goffman]

it's been long enough that i can say this now but the reason why sam's fiancé in baf has the surname comstock is because i mention her (girl sam) reading gene stratton-porter (ie a girl of the limberlost) like twice. and the heroine from that one book is named elnora comstock. probably should've named the guy after the actual love interest from this novel but i only ever got halfway through it

[hcolleen]

Twenty books

In no particular order other than how I remember them, twenty books that helped make me who I am. Supposed to be without explanation, but I think I'll add some. I'm not saying these are all good, but they all influenced me.

The Time Quartet by Madeline L'Engle. I'm on my third copy of Wrinkle in Time (the other two fell apart and my current copy has loose pages)

The DragonRiders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. Not sure if this was authorial intent, but there's a scene that impressed upon young me that you judge people by what they do, not by who they love.

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter. I learned a lot about moths and butterflies in this book

Spock's World by Diane Duane. Taught me to question who and why behind news.

The Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Rex Stout. The first mysteries I actually liked.

Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne. The first deeper science book about cosmology and relativity that started a deep love.

The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willow Davis Roberts. Haunted me.

For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony. Not all evils are the same, and sometimes evil is a means to get to the good ending, but still should be evaluated by results and motivation.

Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur. Got me back into PNR after Anita Blake put me off the genre, which led me to most of what I read now.

The Cat Ate My Gym Shorts by Paula Danzinger (and other titles). Helped young me develop resilience.

They Have a Word for It by Howard Rheingold. Started my love of linguistics.

GetBackers by Yuya Aoki and Rando Ayamine. The best manga I've read and I think of how it all ties together so well and deliciously often.

The Turing Option by Harry Harrison. An exploration of the divide between human and machine and what makes us human

The Last Coincidence by Robert Goldsburough. The first audiobook I listened to and while I thought it odd in high school, though I enjoyed it, is now how I read most books.

Double Trouble by Barthe DeClements. One of those books that haunts my brain from childhood.

The Vmapire's Mail Order Bride by Kristen Painter. Started my love affair with cozy PNR mysteries, my most read genre now.

The Utterly Uninterestig and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes. Introduced me to one of my new favorite authors.

The Cures of Chalion by Louis McMaster Bujold. One of my favorite books and an interesting exploration of religion and how it affects history.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. An openly curious exploration of everything that fascinated the author as a child, encouraging my adult curiosity and exploration.

The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum. History and science and crime and how our modern systems developed.

The Giver by Lois Lowry. Quite a haunting book.

[venicepearl]

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924), born Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American writer, nature photographer, and naturalist from Wabash County, Indiana. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company, Gene Stratton Porter Productions, in 1924.

Stratton-Porter wrote several best-selling novels in addition to columns for national magazines, such as McCall's and Good Housekeeping, among others. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, including Braille, and at their peak in the 1910s attracted an estimated 50 million readers. Eight of her novels, including A Girl of the Limberlost, were adapted into moving pictures. Stratton-Porter was also the subject of a one-woman play, A Song of the Wilderness. Two of her former homes in Indiana are state historic sites, the Limberlost State Historical Site in Geneva and the Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site on Sylvan Lake, near Rome City, Indiana.

[freddiegene]

The Books That Made Me

Had to jump on this trend. Books have always been a part of my life since my grandma or parents used to read me stories, to when I started reading on my own, and to when I started making up my own stories.

What are the books that made you?

Books Recommend:

-Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

-If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffrey Numeroff

-Bunny My Honey by Anita Jeram

-Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

-Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

-The Original Adventure of Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson

-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

-Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

-A Girl of Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

-Ophelia by Lisa Klein

-Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

-City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

-Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck

-The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

-The Wrath and the Dawn by Renèe Ahdieh

-Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

-Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

-A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

-The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

[salesbyserenity]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: A Girl of the Limberlost VHS Movie Feature Films for Families NR Sealed.