It's not my week. The camping trip set me back a bit and we have company and a family reunion this weekend so I'll be surprised if I finish four books, let alone six or seven.
July 10-11. Book: New Horizons by Lois Gladys Leppard
Thoughts:
Sadly after the return of our camping trip I did not manage to read a full book on Tuesday. I did, however, watch Gone with the Wind, which is like reading a book. So I read the final Mandie book, which is the first of her college years. Lois Gladys Leppard died in 2008, so we'll never know how Mandie did, or which of her many male suitors she ended up with. The book was pretty patchy when it came to a real plot. It seemed like she wanted to include a mystery, because she always had, but she also wanted to show that Mandie had grown up, so there was a tiny mystery and a lot about how none of the girls at college liked her. And whining, but not a lot about school which I thought was very odd. It leaves you with a bit of a cliffhanger (involving two NEW male suitors and twin siblings). I'm sad that LGL has died, but a little glad that I don't need to feel like I should read more Mandie. This is the last one, I promise.
July 12. Book The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Thoughts:
Excellent! I had thought it would have been just another The Help, which I never read, nor had any interest in reading, but it really stood on its own two feet. Lavinia, a little white Irish girl ends up becoming an indentured servant at a Virginia plantation, and is raised by the kitchen house slaves, namely the masters illegitimate daughter, Belle. The chapters alternate between Belle and Lavinia as we see what life is like for both of them. Eventually Lavinia is sent away to live with the mistress's white relatives to receive a proper education. Upon her return as mistress to the plantation things do not go as she hopes. This was one of the better books I have read this month, and certainly one of the longest. The majority of them have been about 250 pages, but this one was 360 and I still finished it in 24 hours, which is a testament to its readability.
Thoughts:
Sadly after the return of our camping trip I did not manage to read a full book on Tuesday. I did, however, watch Gone with the Wind, which is like reading a book. So I read the final Mandie book, which is the first of her college years. Lois Gladys Leppard died in 2008, so we'll never know how Mandie did, or which of her many male suitors she ended up with. The book was pretty patchy when it came to a real plot. It seemed like she wanted to include a mystery, because she always had, but she also wanted to show that Mandie had grown up, so there was a tiny mystery and a lot about how none of the girls at college liked her. And whining, but not a lot about school which I thought was very odd. It leaves you with a bit of a cliffhanger (involving two NEW male suitors and twin siblings). I'm sad that LGL has died, but a little glad that I don't need to feel like I should read more Mandie. This is the last one, I promise.
Thoughts:
Excellent! I had thought it would have been just another The Help, which I never read, nor had any interest in reading, but it really stood on its own two feet. Lavinia, a little white Irish girl ends up becoming an indentured servant at a Virginia plantation, and is raised by the kitchen house slaves, namely the masters illegitimate daughter, Belle. The chapters alternate between Belle and Lavinia as we see what life is like for both of them. Eventually Lavinia is sent away to live with the mistress's white relatives to receive a proper education. Upon her return as mistress to the plantation things do not go as she hopes. This was one of the better books I have read this month, and certainly one of the longest. The majority of them have been about 250 pages, but this one was 360 and I still finished it in 24 hours, which is a testament to its readability.
