Comments on: July Preview

By: Nicola Scott

Nicola Scott — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:00:17 +0000

A couple of years ago I re-read all the Little House on the Prairie books. They were wonderful. Particularly The Long Hard Winter. Yes Melissa Gilbert will always be my Laura!

By: Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out

Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:01:28 +0000

I hope your garden survives the heat and you get to enjoy it.
I don’t have any particular urgency to see the Odyssey but will probably watch it when it comes to streaming. I’ve heard that the Netflix remake is truer to the books and time period so a little more gritty than the TV shows.

Happy reading!

By: Helen Murdoch

Helen Murdoch — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:00:02 +0000

As a young kid I loved reading the Little House series and still have my box set. 🙂 I also watched the TV show (probably every episode). I do not, however, intend to watch the new version.
Enjoy the warm weather and all the sporting events. I have really enjoyed the Word Cup tremendously, and will choose Spain in the final.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:03:00 +0000

In reply to Jinjer.

Hi Jinjer, Wow this is all great feedback on the new Little House series! And you seem to recall the LIW books well …. I need to reread them. Perhaps the new series is better … than the ’70s version. Hmm perhaps I’ll check it out. Apparently Laura did write an autobiography titled Pioneer Girl in the 1930s … which they say is bleak. I havent read it yet … But the new show describes her living near mass murderers?! Whoa. I need to get on it. Thx for the good info.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:49:41 +0000

In reply to tracybham.

Hi Tracy, I’m too curious to miss the new Nolan film … though I’m not a big fan of three & four hour movies. Usually 3 hours is too long for me so I can relate to what you’re saying.
And thanks we really got into the vegetable garden when we moved farther away from the city three years ago. It is fun to see them take off. I’m hoping we get some vegetables soon … the next 2 or 3 weeks. We’ll see. Tomatoes do pretty well in pots, so those seem doable. But we have them mostly in the ground here. I’ll let you know how it goes. Wishing you a great week & happy reading.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:35:14 +0000

In reply to JaneGS.

Thanks Jane. I’m making a note of the book title … and I read your review of it … It seems very interesting. I appreciate you steering me to the right book to read on LIW. I think I need to read LIW’s prairie books first as it’s been way too long since I read them in elementary school. Then it’d be good to read this book after …. I checked my library but they don’t have it … though Fellman co-wrote another book titled: Rethinking Canada: the Promise of Women’s History 1997, which they have. She seems a scholar. Thx for checking back.

By: JaneGS

JaneGS — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:46:02 +0000

In reply to Susan.

I’ve blogged a lot about LIW and her books. Personally, I think this is the best book about her writing, politics, impact, and the role her daughter played in all of the above.
https://janegs.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-house-long-shadow-laura-ingalls.html

By: Jinjer

Jinjer — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:31:21 +0000

My mom read the Little House books to me, my 3rd grade teacher read the first book to our class…I remember us all sitting on the floor in a circle and she would show us the pictures from the book. I loved the 1970s series and watched it every week. My best friend & I pretended she was Mary and I was Laura with our hair in braids and my mom’s aprons on our heads for bonnets. We would go all by ourselves to the dry wash behind the dikes where ANYTHING COULD’VE HAPPENED TO US and pretend we were on the prairie looking for that little brat, Carrie. lol

I’m loving the new series on Netflix so far. It’s trying to stay more true to the books than the 70s version did.

I love the new Charles and Laura the same as I did the originals.
The new Carolyn is TERRIBLE!!! No!!! Her hair is loose and she’s passive-aggressive.
I love the new Mary. A million times better than the old Mary.
What about Carrie? She wasn’t born yet!!!! There is no Carrie yet!!! Yayyyy!!! No Carrie!!!

Did they use a brindle bulldog this time for Jack? No. But this Jack is better than the original Jack.

They are also putting in stuff from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book…I forget the name…Prairie something? A memoir? It’s got stuff that she wasn’t allowed to put in the Little House Books. Like a family of mass murderers that lived near the Ingalls in real life! They put those people in.

Definitely worth giving it a shot.

By: tracybham

tracybham — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:54:39 +0000

I do not think that we will end up watching The Odyssey, because we already own too many three hour movies (on disc) that we never get around to watching. But I might have been interested had it been a shorter film. We have watched and enjoyed several of Christopher Nolan’s films.

The photo at the top is lovely. And I admire you for growing your own vegetables. We used to (15 – 20 years ago) grow a few vegetables in pots and I always loved watching them grow.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:22:44 +0000

In reply to Kathy’s Corner.

Hi Kathy, thanks. We are hopeful that we’ll start getting produce in the next 2 – 3 weeks from the garden, yay. Things are growing well now as it’s been hot.
And it’s great to get your feedback on the Little House books. It’s been so long I’ve forgotten them but I’m curious to pick them up maybe later this fall. I’m glad you’ve gotten into them. I’ll look for your reviews. Cheers.