What I'm Reading

I am rubbish at keeping a schedule for this thing but you know, it's been a WEEK and I'm sure everyone is as distracted as I am. I'll share more kids books later this week but I've also been reading some fun things while I retreat into my bookshelf and pull the covers over my head, trying to pretend like the outside world isn't happening. One of those books is My Antonia by Willa Catcher, an American classic I'd been avoiding until very recently but you know, I'm glad I read it now, not when I was much younger. It came to me at exactly the right time I think. Up until now my only experience with America's pioneers was Laura Ingalls Wilder who I madly adore and who aroused an interest in me for how people got on in that strange and interesting time. My Antonia is about settlers, a Bohemian family who moves in next door to our narrator, a young boy and the trials and tribulations of Antonia, the oldest girl. It's not a sad book, it's actually quite a happy book, but sad things do happen. Mostly I loved the descriptions of friendship and quiet camaraderie between the two as they walk across the vast prairie together. A lovely book. #bookstagram #mrmbookclub #121in2021 #myantonia #willacather