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Fiction – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. 4 August, 2016. 3 Comments on Recent Reads. I’ve had different degrees of success in my reading this summer. For example, though their premises were interesting and they were in general pretty good, I fell by the wayside and failed to finish Simplicity Parenting and Sarum. After waiting weeks for The Nest to become available at the library, the opening pages turned me off quickly by. 16 June, 2016. My Name is Asher Lev.
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Christianity – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. 4 August, 2016. 3 Comments on Recent Reads. I’ve had different degrees of success in my reading this summer. For example, though their premises were interesting and they were in general pretty good, I fell by the wayside and failed to finish Simplicity Parenting and Sarum. After waiting weeks for The Nest to become available at the library, the opening pages turned me off quickly by. 10 June, 2016. 1 June, 2016. I started ...
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Caddie Woodlawn – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. 5 May, 2011. My copy of the book looks like this. It took us a long time to read. But we never lost the thread, and our interest never waned. First, comparison to Laura Ingalls Wilder is hard to resist. With the girls, I brought up the episode where Laura lures Nellie Olsen into leech-infested waters in. On the Banks of Plum Creek. Is a world conscious of the passing of time. Laura’s sister goes blind, her family goe...
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C.S. Lewis and Bottoming Out – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. CS Lewis and Bottoming Out. 18 April, 2015. 8220;The Life of C.S. Lewis” Part 2. But before all that came this — something very close to despair. It’s a state of mind I can relate to, this feeling that time is passing, and you’re not amounting to anything. He couldn’t have imagined what God would do with his life once it was entirely surrendered. Neither can any of us. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. 18 April, 2015 at 8:52 am.
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Pioneer Girl – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. 7 April, 2015. So you feel like you’ve lived an interesting life, maybe a life that illustrates one of the archetypal American themes — Manifest Destiny, for example. How do you go about writing your life story for public consumption? Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder. But more of these details are provided in. Gives us glimpses of domestic violence, drunkenness, even one episode where a very young Laura is nearly molested.
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Our Only World – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. 12 February, 2015. When readers of Wendell Berry see that he has a new book coming out, we tend to read it on reflex. The themes are seldom new; that’s part of the appeal. We read because it means immersing ourselves once again in a particular mind and set of values, expressed with clarity and conviction. Overall the message of the book is that positive change is within reach, but it comes through personal choices and hous...
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Discovering Nature – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. Click the button below to access my nature and photography blog, Discovering Nature:. A walk in the park.
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The Wilder Life – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. 16 November, 2011. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie. At a publisher’s book sale that comes to our area once a year. It has one of the most attractive covers ever, in my opinion, and as someone who has read and reread the Little House books, I dropped it into my book bag without having to think about it. In the end, though,. Inspired me to reread a Laura Ingalls Wilder biography.
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder. 6 July, 2009. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend. Because it left me feeling deflated the first time, and I wanted to give it another chance. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder. Provides a broader, more documentary, fascinating lens for experiencing the Ingalls family story. How reliable is our memory? And to what extent is the result, if not accurate, truthful?
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Random thoughts on the Little House books – Across the Page
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The world is made up of stories, not atoms. (Muriel Rukeyser). 25 Reasons to Read. Random thoughts on the Little House books. 22 July, 2009. Now my daughters and I have gone through them all all the books for children, that is. The First Four Years. We’ll save for when the girls are older. Some random thoughts, revisiting the books as an adult:. It’s so striking, the happy, optimistic ending of. These Happy Golden Years. Little House on the Prairie. Little Town on the Prairie. Pa performs in a minstrel s...
