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Book Review: Prairie Fires

Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser is a new biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer of the Little House on the Prairie novels. The book pieces together the Ingalls’ family history and walks readers through Laura’s childhood experiences as her family moved around the midwest. With the birth of Laura’s own child, Rose, the book broadens its biographical scope to include a complete picture of Rose and her own set of challenges. Quite a bit of the biography covers the inception…

Jaci July 24, 2020 Book Reviews No Comments

I did this the wrong way. I have been to Vienna and seen Klimt’s work in the Kunsthistoriches Museum. I have been to the Neue Galerie in New York City. I have always marveled at his masterpieces and admired the venues that displayed them. Never did I ever realize the deep and far reaching impact of his art and the people whose lives it touched until I read The Lady in Gold. I wish I had read this book before…

Jaci September 6, 2018 Book Reviews No Comments

Book Review: Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife

I received this book as an Advance Reader Copy from Cambridge University Press via NetGalley. I have studied a bit of Shakespeare, dating back to college and even more recently as my reading of The Year of Lear with a look at the historical context of Shakespeare’s work in 1606. But I had not read much about Shakespeare’s family life, particularly his wife Anne Hathaway, and so this title – Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife – immediately caught my interest. The text…

Jaci May 28, 2018 Book Reviews No Comments