#little house books

[grandmacozy]

Crying, screaming and throwing up knowing I am not in a snug cabin crocheting by the fire while soup cooks and snow falls outside

[little-blog-in-the-big-woods]

"Here, Laura and Mary,” Pa said, and he gave them each a little round package out of his pocket. They took off the paper wrappings, and each had a little, hard, brown cake, with beautifully crinkled edges. “Bite it,” said Pa, and his blue eyes twinkled. Each bit off one little crinkle, and it was sweet. It crumbled in their mouths. It was better even than their Christmas candy. “Maple sugar,” said Pa.

"Little House in the Big Woods", Laura Ingalls Wilder

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond by Dean Butler #BookReview #NetGalley #Citadel #Memoir #LHOTP #Television #50thAnniversary #LauraIngallsWilder

If you're a fan of 1970s television show #LHOTP, you'll want to check out Dean Butler's memoir, #PrairieMan. It's heartfelt and honest, and just the thing I needed to read during this #50thanniversary year. #ARC #NetGalley #BookReview #CitadelBooks

Cast just before his twenty-third birthday, Dean Butler joined Little House on the Prairie halfway through its run, gaining instant celebrity and fans’ enduring affection. Ironically, when the late, great Michael Landon remarked that Little House would outlive everyone involved in making it, Butler deemed it unlikely. Yet for four decades and counting, Butler has been defined in the public eye as…

[princesssarisa]

This reminds me of that article I once read where the author wrote that as an eldest daughter, she related more to Mary than to Laura. She complained that the books are "biased" in Laura's favor: that readers are "supposed" to identify with Laura and dislike Mary.

Is that really true? I admit I haven't read the series since elementary school, but I never got that impression. And I can't imagine that Laura Ingalls Wilder, writing as a woman in her 60s after Mary had died, would have wanted to insult her sister's memory and make young readers dislike her!

To be honest, I also doubt she ever thought "Most girls will identify with me and not my sisters" either. She just made herself the protagonist because that's how autobiography works!

For some reason, I'm thinking about Mary Ingalls.

I saw a Goodreads review talking about how ever since they were a kid, they disliked introverted quiet Mary in favor of bold outgoing Laura.

And that take bothers me because it was actually kind of the opposite of that.

In one of her columns written decades before the Little House books, Laura shares the story of the "Is blonde or brown hair prettier?" fight from Little House in the Big Woods. And she frames it as a story of how Mary was intelligent and good with words, and she could say the most cutting things, but the quiet Laura couldn't find the right words to respond with, so she'd be reduced to lashing out physically and thus getting in trouble for it. One sister liking indoor pursuits doesn't make her an introvert, and the other one liking outdoor pursuits doesn't make her an extrovert.

And that's also got me thinking about Mary's later life. Her blindness kept her inside. Whether she was introverted or extroverted, she was forced into a much more solitary existence than Laura was, who could go to school and make friends and run around town at will. Going to the blind school was her one chance in life to really socialize and make friends on a more even footing.

And anyway, one day I'd like to more properly explore the sisterly relationship as presented in these books. Because they are so deeply centered on Laura and her perspective, Mary barely shows up in the first books except to fight with Laura. And then when Mary goes blind, she becomes someone for Laura to take care of--another responsibility to consider as she takes over the role as eldest sibling. It's only in Little Town on the Prairie where the relationship shifts, and we get to see them interacting as two people. Mary admits that she was an insufferable goody-goody sometimes, but Laura also sees and admires the true virtue that Mary has cultivated, and how her blindness has given her a deep spiritual life unlike anything Laura's seen from anyone else. They've at last matured out of childhood rivalry and developed an adult understanding of each other's weaknesses and strengths.

It's just so much deeper and more nuanced than the common view of "quiet goody-goody Mary" and "bold and relatable Laura" would have you believe, and I think it deserves more appreciation.

[mifu-mifuart]

WHAT THE "H"?

Something definitely weird happened yesterday!

But the toy of axolotl helped me. He was scared of it as if it was a monster! I wonder why?

I guess he's my pet now...

(Heavy inspired by @squidflavoredsoup ! I hope it's okay...)

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: kenyan_library

[suntails]

guess how much i love you?

[langernameohnebedeutung]

I mean, obviously House is a horrible boss but at least he's an equal opportunities horrible boss. Most horrible bosses will treat you like shit but THEN talk to you about "disrespect" when you try to stand up for yourself.

When House's employees drug or stalk or blackmail or insult or physically assault him right back, he just goes "Great game, guys!" at the end of the episode and high-fives everyone.

[lazylittledragon]

ok i’ve got shadowlach wedding on the brain again and i’ve been cooking a Thought

you know how people will jokingly send wedding invites to royalty/celebrities and sometimes they actually show up

karlach would 100% invite drizzt do’urden to her wedding

[leafspiritz]

III; three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile

[andi-o-geyser]

local gang of dnd players intimidate and viciously bully game show host sam reich, threatening to push his ass down the stairs like he's a 90-year-old grandma in a retirement home. more at 8

[haunthouse]

at long last my attempt at collecting every single cover of hill house is live! 125+ covers, sortable by publishing date, language, and whether it's a movie/tv tie-in cover. if you know any more that aren't on here, leave a comment on the site so i can add them!

[wodania]

“Drink until you’ve had enough / I’ll drink from your hands / I will be your warrior / I will be your lamb.” - queendom, aurora

khaleesi of the great grass sea

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink #NewberyMedal #ClassicBooks #BookReview #AudiobookReview #Wisconsin

The #NewberyMedal was just awarded for 2023, and I thought I'd go back and revisit some of my favorite past winners. #CaddieWoodlawn won the award in 1936; would it stand the test of time? #CarolRyrieBrink #PioneerDays #Wisconsin #BookReview #Audiobook

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She’d rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother’s dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors — neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don’t understand her at all. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it’s based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink’s…

[agoddamneddelight]

sixer I hardly know her

[mrderofcr0ws]

you may not like aegon targaryen but tom glynn-carney loves him and knows him like the back of his hand. i applaud that tom finds away to bring him from the page even when the writers try their hardest to write aegon’s show version into the gutter. tom’s depiction at times may be less serious than aegon is in the book, but that’s because he’s dealing with a script that writes his character to be a bumbling idiot who can’t function without a glass in his hand.

it’s very apparent now that the show and the book are two separate universes, but i can say 100% tom’s knowledge of and attention to detail on his character does not go unnoticed. despite the hole they’ve written aegon into, tom never ceases to amaze me on screen — especially this new season — with just how much of book aegon he is trying to bring to life despite the clear image ryan condall is brewing in his writers room of evil and ill-intent when it comes to every single character in hotd.