My quote yesterday got me thinking about Laura Ingalls Wilder. She is probably one of the first authors I ever knew about. My mom loved her series of books so much, that she read them to me and my siblings even before we could read. I remember her recording the reading onto tapes so we could listen to them later. Good times. Anyway, I loved this series growing up. It wasn't until I was about 13 or 14 that I realized that some of what she talked about in her books was rather depressing. Her … [Read more...]
Feb 3, 2012
Featured Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
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So, when I was a kid, there wasn't much to do in our house. We didn't have video games or TV. The Internet was still boring back then. So, there wasn't a whole lot to do. I always liked reading, but we didn't go to the library nearly often enough for me. So I spent most of my time trying to find free books to read. Most free books are public domain because they are old and no one wants to publish them anymore or something. So I read a lot of crappy fiction from the 1800s and 1900s. One of the … [Read more...]
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