I found this on a link Dyson had posted and I had put in my favorites. It is very interesting and entertaining and I was sure you all would enjoy it.
Letters from a woman homesteader
Link?
Sorry. Got carried away! LOL
http://homestead.org/ElinorePStewart/LettersofaWomanHomesteaderI.htm
Didn't they make a movie of this? I disremember the name but I think it had Rip Torn in it.
I never heard of it before but I am enjoying it very much. Thanks for the original link Dyson. Lot's of good stuff on that site.
This is a very good small diary that I read a number of years ago though it disappears in the end. I'm not aware of a movie. On the same train, but fiction, is Jane Smiley's "All True Adventures of Liddie Newton". Please don't put it aside because it is fiction. The historic detail is amazing and the character totally believable.
This drove me crazy last night!! I finally found it; the movie was called "Heartland" it was made in 2000.
Just a quick note to let everyone know that Robin is home and resting. Her first focus is on getting rested and healed. She will touch base when she has increased her strength, and thanks everyone again for their thoughts and prayers :)
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Whooo Hoooo!! Thank the Lord!!
Cajun, thanks for sharing that link. Looking forward to getting into reading it this weekend.
Nik, thanks for remembering the movie. Since I am more of a visual person, I really enjoy watching the movies, then reading the books.
Laurel, thanks for the additional suggestion.
Also a great read..."One Thousand White Women", the journals of Mary Dodd, by Jim Fergus. It's captivating from the first page.
So glad you are on the mend Msrobin! Hope you get to read all of these.
Funny!! I just got a Droid and downloaded the kindle apparently and this book was in the FREE classics!!! Going to start....now! :)
How cool is that?
I got a Droid a few months ago. Aside from the phone features it has helped to organize my life. There are lots of apps for free books; The Gutenberg Project and Aldiko are two. The "bookshelf" is full for when I travel. I recently re-read "Jane Eyre" and am now reading E.M. Forester's social commentary, "Room With A View". Love that you can adjust the type size and switch to black screen/white print for reading in the middle of the night that's easy on the eyes. Many libraries offer free e-book access to members for more current literature. Drat that I forgot to ask about it when I was there this morning. You "check out" the book for a limited time and then it disappears from your reader.
More on topic...I found a Better Homes And Gardens cookbook in the resale section of the library called the "Heritage Cook Book" It's a history of the settlement of America with historical drawings, paintings, photos, and anecdotes that traces the origins of traditional foods starting with Native Americans and Colonial settlement then moving to the waves of various ethnicities who immigrated.
The BHG cookbook sounds interesting.
I recently added 2 'new' old cookbooks from the old Time-Life series from the 70's... one on Terrines, Pates, Gallantines, etc, and one on Variety Meats.
There is SO much added nutrition in the bits we no longer eat (in this country, anyway).
Tell me about it! I feel like finally having a garden will help me ensure that my family eats better anyway. I love all the free books. I went a little crazy adding them to my library lol
I loved the "Letters of A Woman Homesteader" which I found via my Kindle app that I didn't even know I had (thanks to my baby brother...lol) Thanks for the recommendation Cajun. I still have a hard time using my phone for well, more than a phone. My last one was a Knack, which had no camera, no music, just a phone...imagine that? (chuckle)
I have Lewis and Clark's journals and Modern Herbal Simples that I am jumping back and forth with on the Kindle app. It still doesn't provide the emotional resonance that climbing into bed with a good book does, but it will do in a pinch - and I can't dog ear the pages of my favorite passages either..hrmph. It HAS come in handy when having to wait in lines though.
I've been reading old classics, in book form too - Steinbeck right now. I'm trying to read Anna Karenina also but I am struggling with that one. The libraries here are very small, and even the inter-library exchange doesn't come up with some of the things that I request. The ladies at the desk are getting used to my wacky requests I guess, as they don't look at me so weirdly these days. Maybe I can find "One Thousand White Women" via the exchange service.
I need to cull some of my cookbooks - probably some of all my books as I still have many boxes of them packed (cough). "Hi, I'm Sunny and I'm a bibliophile..." 0_0
Darius, Time Life did those series every which way. There is one that is by food category. Those are what you have. I have the entire series. In addition they published one by country or regions of culinary import. One that might interest you is Cooking Of Vienna's Empire.
I'm always reading a paper based book because I can find cheap and current reads in print compared to buying e-books. On the other hand I am usually up reading for one or two hours in the middle of the night, almost every night. Not having to turn on lights, turn pages or hold a book allows me to read and get back to sleep faster.
Sunny, brain pain is reading Russian lit or German philosophers. lol "One Thousand White Women" is a blow through. "The All True Adventures Of Liddie Newton" is one of the best reads ever.
Hahaha, brain pain ;) So far I simply just cannot 'connect' at all with the characters for some reason in AK. I've got a few philosophers and other heavy weights languishing in my Kindle - Hume, Smth, Mill, Gibran, Okakura, Sunzi - but I have to be in the mood to tackle their weightiness.
I discovered an excellent author by accident, while looking for Thoreau's additional works that I don't own - Paul Theroux. He's classified as a travel writer, but I find his books so mentally invigorating! He writes about travel the way I've always tried to experience it when I did the very tiny bit of traveling that I've done. Not only does he bring the landscapes into perfect mental view with his brilliant descriptions, but his embodiment of the people of these various places are stellar also. He makes corners of the world I didn't know exist come alive in my mind - so much so that I drag out the huge old Atlas to locate them and lodge them in my memory perfectly. The libraries here don't think much of him apparently, as his books are hard to retrieve from the system.
I'm keeping a desired reading list, and a record of my reading for the first time in my life. I'll add Liddie Newtonto the list also :) If only I could get paid to read, I'd be a millionairess a few times over..chuckle.
I'll keep him in mind, Sunny. If I got paid to read I'd probably be wishing to be in the garden. Don't think I'd like to sit around and read all day. :)
So far so good! Don't you wish you knew what the corresponding letters said? LOL I die trying to figure out what people are saying when she writes they'accents phonetically. Read the part about her camping expedition and decided fried trout was what's for dinner! :)
Bless yo lil ole heart. Learning a foreign language is so enriching. Make sure you dust the trout with cornmeal. I always spatter grease on my books so I use those clear plastic cookbook stands to read and cook. The eyes are not good enough to read the Droid while I cook.
I finally got time to finish the letters and I too wish I had been able to read the friend's letters also. I am sad the book is finished. I'd love to know what happened later to some of the people like Zebbie and Molly.
Finished the other day. Love it. Makes me want critters and visitors. Can you imagine rolling up to a strangers house and having them just take you in and feed you, let you stay, or the other way around? Makes me want to try to live as closely to that as we can get these days.