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Beloved, O' Pioneers , Cold Comfort Farm, A Suitable Boy, The Lovely Bones, A Fine Balance
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by Edith Wharton
Old New York
Ghost Stories
Hudson River Bracketed
by Willa Cather
My Antonia
O Pioneers!
The Song of the Lark
Lucy Gayheart
by Katherine Susannah Prichard
The Roaring Nineties
Winged Seeds
... Flight, Ochsner's first novel, was longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize and is described in a review in the Guardian as “o ne part post-Soviet insanity to three parts magical realism.” Twenty copies is A LOT of copies, and I don't have nearly enough entries yet, so you're almost certain to ...
... Flight, Ochsner's first novel, was longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize and is described in a review in the Guardian as “o ne part post-Soviet insanity to three parts magical realism.” Twenty copies is A LOT of copies, and I don't have nearly enough entries yet, so you're almost certain to ...
... for you. There's a sequel to the Lantern book called A White Bird Flying, but I haven't read it yet.
My Antonia and O Pioneers are two great books as well, both with a pioneer motif.
... Joyce Kilmer, author of 'Trees' (1886; d.1918)
Dec 7:
Willa Cather,1923 Pulitzer Prize winning author of O Pioneers! (1913) and My Antonia (1918), among many others (1873; d.1947)
Dec 8:
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, 1903 Nobel Prize winner, Norwegian dramatist, poet, ...
The Weather in the Streets, The Echoing Grove, A Pin to See the Peepshow, The Magic Toyshop, A Lost Lady, O Pioneers , The Song of the Lark, For Love Alone, The Constant Nymph, South Riding
21. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. 5 stars
This is the third of Cather's books I've read, after One of Ours and My Antonia. I very much liked the first two, but this one is superb, with characters with whom I wished to have more time.
O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
... title, it's a warm and human story about two good men who re-establish the Catholic church in New Mexico. Will look for O Pioneers! now.
... Pulitzer, would have more or less faded into oblivion with the greatness of My Antonia and to a lesser extent SoftL and O Pioneers becoming her signature works.
Perhaps the timliness of her WWI story was more compelling then than now?
... AND NEW
1. Kidnapped READING
2. Little Women
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. The Count of Monte Cristo
5. O Pioneers by Willa Cather ***** 12/1/09
6. Frankenstein ***½ 11/23/09
7. The Good Earth
8. Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
9. B ...
I didn't stick to all Viragos either, but I managed the following:
Mary Lavelle by Kate O'Brien 3*
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 3.5*
Seven For a Secret by Mary Webb 3*
Provincial Daughter by Rosamund Dashwood 4*
O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather? Maybe they could relate better to it.
... thought you could hide from me, did you? Foolish lass, you are starred, starred, starred!
*blink*
I was reading O Pioneers! when I drowsed, and now this...?
Challenge dates: October 1, 2009 - October 1, 2010
Here are my categories and some preliminary titles for 2010. Might as well really ...
... of the Gods--and am now perusing my collection for my next read (always an enjoyable exercise!!). Should it be. . . O Pioneers! (Willa Cather), Sisters by a River (Barbara Comyns), or The Gentlewomen (Laura Talbot)?
... in whatever context you put it in.
“You cannot have an account here” is pretty clear to me.
“We have had too many people try and mis-use the site from some region, so have had no choice but to close Bookmooch to all people from those regions.” This is also crystal clear, no ...
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
O! Pioneers by Willa Cather is set in Nebraska during the 19th century. I haven't read it, but I think her My Antonia may also be set here.
Yesterday I found My Mortal Enemy and O Pioneers by Willa Cather, both green spines.
28. O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather
I think I liked My Antonia better, but this one was good too. It was definitely sadder than My Antonia.
Unfortunately, this was a library book, so not helping the TBR. And I was having a bad day at work so I went to Half Price books over lunch to cheer ...
... !)
From a lovely LTer, three green VMCs -
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
Winged Seeds by Katherine Susannah Prichard
Random, unprovoked ...
... Liss (1790's)
2 The Treasure by Iris Johansen (1190's)
3 John Quincy Adams by Robert V Remini (1820's)
4 O! Pioneers by Willa Cather (1800's)
5 The River Wife by Jonis Agee (1800's)
New-to-me authors:
1 Fault Line by Barry Eisler
2 The Bible Salesman ...
... What seems wrong to us today was an accepted part of the culture of the time.
If you like her style (I do) do read O Pioneers and My Antonia. Both are stories of early immigrants to Nebraska. I also recently read Shadows on the Rock which was a set in late 17th century Quebec.
I finished O Pioneers! , which was wonderful; then got myself another copy of People of the Book, this one having all the pages in it! I am almost done with it. Then I will return to one I barely started last night, The Help , ...
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24. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. As only Cather can write of the prairie. (4/5)
... pages and then it skipped to 60 pages ahead. arrrrrghhhh! Must find another copy tomorrow!
Meantime, I've picked up O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. I haven't read her for years!
... House of Mirth, Sese & Sensibility, 100 Best Loved Poems, Resurrection The Last of the MohicansWashington SquareO Pioneers and The Mill on The Floss, plus The Awakening...I went a bit crazy in ordering, but most of them were only a few dollars each...
Peter, how are the little ...
... but Cathers poignant descriptions rang dead true. I see there is plenty more Cather on Librivox and I've already downloaded O Pioneers! , though I want to savour the aftertaste of My Ántonia. Recommended!
... 09
2 The Treasure by Iris Johansen (1190's) 2/20/2009
3 John Quincy Adams by Robert V Remini (1820's) 3/5/2009
4 O! Pioneers by Willa Cather (1800's) 3/9/2009
5 - in progress - River Wife by Jonis Agee (1800's)
5 New-to-me authors:
1 Fault Line by Barry Eisler 1/8/20 ...
My Antonia by Willa Cather
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
One of Ours by Willa Cather
Goodnight Nebraska by Tom McNeal
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
The Plain Sense of Things by Pamela Carter Joern
The Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern
... that Niel imagines.
The images that Cather conveys in LL are not as powerful as the homesteader images we find in O Pioneers! and My Antonia. But the pioneering spirit is just as strong, if not so completely fixed to the land itself. Life was a struggle for everyone on the frontier. I ...
... same as I do, which is also hard for me to imagine! ;-)
ETA - Cather DID make dirt sound good! There was so much in O! Pioneers about the land that it became a character - The Land.
Book #31
O! Pioneers by Willa Cather
Set in the late 1800's in a fictional location in western Nebraska, this is the story of a Swedish immigrant family trying to make a go of farming. The book spans 20 or 30 years, ending around 1900 (during the Alaska gold rush). It follows Alexandra, ...
Book #26
O! Pioneers by Willa Cather. Category #4 Historical, would also fit in new-to-me authors and older than me.
Set in the late 1800's in a fictional location in western Nebraska, this is the story of a Swedish immigrant family trying to make a go of farming. The book spans 20 or ...
... Short Fiction 1892-1912 and Shadows on the Rock, a novel set in Quebec, which I also did not know about. I already own O Pioneers! but haven't read it yet. 2010 I may have a Willa Cather category--these four, rereads of My Antonia and Death comes for the Archbishop, a couple more ...
I am a big fan of Cather's and have read to date: My Antonia (my personal favorite), Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers! , Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Song of the Lark, and A Lost Lady. Not a bad book in the bunch, although Alexander's Bridge, her first book, is the weakest by far. ...
So far I've read:
O Pioneers and The Troll Garden by Willa Cather
Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Am currently reading:
The Leopard by di Lampedusa
Waking ...
It was funny, but I wouldn't say it was hilarious. The cover of my copy has a blurb from Bill Bryson saying that it's "o ne of the funniest books you will ever read." I hope that's not true.
No, the LEC never did publish an edition of The Pioneers , rather surprising in the light of the number of Cooper's books they did publish, and the only one of the Leatherstocking novels they did not publish (and doubly surprising as it was the first published of the Natty Bumpo books).
LEC L ...
>22: glad to see that O Pioneers! is 4*, hemlok. Knowing Cather only by name previously, so many people have been raving about her books recently that I've started picking them up, and grabbed a copy of this in the library sale yesterday. Also have My Antonia out on loan, and requested Death Co ...
... one I 'liberate' from secondhand bookstores when I see it so I actually own more than one copy...
>154: I just bought O Pioneers! today in the library sale after all the Cather-reading and -praising that has been going on around here lately, so I'm glad you liked it. (The library had ...
Your edition must have really fine print. My edition of O Pioneers has 306 pages--one reason why I'm not reading it for the February author read.
I do plan to read it--and after your nice review I'll probably put it in my 999 Classics category. If it is just the difference in the size of ...
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O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
What a delightful tale of life and death on the American frontier. The descriptions of the land were sublime and the people within this story ...
... entertainment. Snobbishness is measured by how far toward the challenge side of the scale one prefers to live.
I read O Pioneers! a couple of weeks ago. It was primarily a character study of a woman and her family. Only a few events, but lots of interiority.
... Carousel and get a whole Durrell gestalt goin' here. Then it's on to Monsieur, or The Prince of Darkness.
Or maybe O, Pioneers! , wasn't it k-mom who talked about picking that one up recently? Too blah to look up the citation upthread.
cameling, should we heed morfam and change the ...
I just finished up O, Pioneers! by the wonderful Willa Cather. I am just about to start Tribal Scars by Ousmane Sembene of Senegal.
#16 - O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather - ****
"Oh, I'll tell them myself, tonight, when they come home."
O, Pioneers! by Willa Cather
... in her books. The one I'm looking for now is The Professor's House. People seem to be liking that one. However, I own O Pioneers so that will be the next one I read. oops! The Old Beauty is actually next--I'm on vacation and forgot that is sitting on my bed stand at home!
... it in '09 I am counting it here. And my review is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/19245
1,083 pages
No. 16 - O Pioneers! by Willa Cather for the Monthly Author Read group. I so wish that I wrote like this.
180 pages
Urania, if you want to discuss O Pioneers! , let's do it in that thread.
I found O Pioneers the least interesting of Cather's work. It just doesn't excite me the way some of her other writing does. My Antonia is lovely and evocative, but the narrator bugs the hell out of me.
So far, what I've read of Cather O Pioneers! and several short stories from The Troll Garden tells me she has a distinctive feminine voice, maybe one of the first to show woman as not just complimentary to men, but able to successfully compete with them. She has much to say about the arts and ...
... Isabel Allende? While not traditional shoot-em-up Westerns, there are also In America by Susan Sontag, My Antonia or O Pioneers! by Willa Cather and Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson.
... neighbor -- a truly memorable and heartfelt story -- set in Colorado interestingly enough. I'm also sure I've read O Pioneers , but I remember nothing about it at the moment. So, for those of you embarking on this journey, I wish you Bon Voyage! If I find a day or two to read, I shall ...
I read my first Cather in January (My Antonia) and I'm now listening to O Pioneers . I really like her depiction of smart, immigrant women making a life in an unfamiliar land. As mentioned by geneg O Pioneers! quite short so I should finish it on my next few visits to the gym. Cather was a great ...
Alexandra in O Pioneers! comes to mind as a strong female character. A woman competent in a man's world.
For those reading or planning to read O Pioneers! it's a short long story or a long short story, depending on your point of view, of about 150 pages. It is broken into four sections, one of which is less than 10 pages. It doesn't need to be broken up. We should be able to discuss it quite well in ...
... - Conrad
For the Authors Group Read (?) as much Willa Cather as I can cram in between the others, beginning with O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark and as many short stories as I can find time for.
I'm still pursuing the Mingo with Natty Bumppo through the Glimmerglass.
Whe ...
Yes,
and My Antonia (http://cather.unl.edu/0003.html) and O Pioneers! (http://cather.unl.edu/0002.html) are there as well.
>2 & >5, I too am planning to read O Pioneers! . Maybe whoever starts first can set up a discussion thread for this book.
I've got a choice of two - I think I'm going with O Pioneers!
... be pretty boring; same goes for Shadows on the Rock. I enjoyed The Professor's House, A Lost Lady, My Antonia and O Pioneers! . I'll be reading Sapphira and the Slave Girl, one of the few Cathers that I haven't read before.
What a wonderful resource the Willa Cather site is - I have O Pioneers set aside to start shortly.
I have added the following descriptions:
Bodily Harm - Margaret Atwood;
The Ponder Heart - Eudora Welty;
O Pioneers! - Willa Cather;
The Golden Arrow - Mary Webb;
Love in Winter - Storm Jameson;
None Turn Back - Storm Jameson;
Dancing Girls - ...
... by Sebastian Junger...........Massachusetts
Divine Justice by David Baldacci....................Virginia
O, Pioneers by Willa Cather..........................Nebraska
Herzog by Saul Bellow................................Illinois/Massachusetts
Dreams From My Father ...
O! Pioneers by Willa Cather
... be reading them in chronological sequence as follows:
The Deerslayer
The Last of the Mohicans
The Pathfinder
The Pioneers
The Prairie
I'll be reading other things around this set, but this is my thrust, at least for now. I'll bet Cooper never figured to be discussed in a ...
... much younger. I still have it--I should probably reread it since it seems to be everyone else's "favorite!" I also have O Pioneers which I haven't read yet. Maybe some Cather in my "classics" category?
My Antonia by Willa Cather - I'm sooooo glad I finally picked up Cather. O, Pioneers! is next.
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - Hardy has so much atmosphere. Love his writing.
Misfortune by Wesley Stace - Hilarious and touching.
Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood - Amazin ...
I've read O Pioneers , too. Now, someone do Arrowsmith, I dare you!
I've read The Kite Runner,
But I've never read O Pioneers .
I went to the local independent bookseller yesterday and was a baaad boy.
O Pioneers! von Willa Cather--anticipating a group read....
The Unexpected Salami da Laurie Gwen Shapiro--will either be hilarious or make me cringe.
Giovanni's Gift a Bradford Morrow--hardcover, a ...
Put me down for:
Les Miserables
O Pioneers! and
Petals of Blood
I'll go for:
The Sea Wolf
O! Pioneers
Sea of Poppies
Madame Bovary
The Leopard
O Pioneers!
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
...
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Three Trapped Tigers by G. Cabrera Infante
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo
The Octopus by
The Sea Wolf by Jack London ...
... 17th) 5 out of 5
24. Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson (finished Feb 17th) 4 out of 5
25. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (finished Feb 19th) 3.5 out of 5
26. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (finished Feb 20th) 4.5 out of 5
27. People of the B ...
... storeetllr - I have China Road on my 999 challenge so I'm glad to hear that someone really liked it.
#31 AMQS - ditto O Pioneers!
Here are my best books of 2008 (so far)
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - Pulitzer Prize Winner of 1974
Independent People by Halldor Laxness ...
... highlights (in no particular order):
fiction:
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
nonfiction:
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Three Cups ...
... by Marcel Proust
2) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
3) The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
5) O Pioneers by Willa Cather - ****
4) Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott - *****
5) Adam Bede by George Eliot - ****
6) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Steve ...
January sounds good to me. It will give me a chance to finish David Copperfield.
I've been thinking about O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, a kind of tip of the hat to kjellica, since this is about Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest. Or, possibly The Octopus by Frank Norris, Or, Jack ...
January sounds good to me.
I've been thinking about O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, a kind of tip of the hat to kjellica, since this is about Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest. Or, possibly The Octopus by Frank Norris, Or, Jack London's The Sea Wolf. Buddenbrooks by Thomas M ...
January sounds good to me.
I've been thinking about O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, a kind of tip of the hat to kjellica, since this is about Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest. Or, possibly The Octopus by Frank Norris, Or, Jack London's The Sea Wolf. Buddenbrooks by Thomas ...
... Dead, After the Quake, Brideshead Revisited, Casino Royale, Sons and Lovers, "Brokeback Mountain", Amadeus, O Pioneers! , The Odyssey, Day
... today... went to B&N find some books for my grandparents ... and uh ... came out with four of my own... help me...
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - I did read My Antonia first out of the batch of books I got *cough* a WEEK ago. Loved it. Must read more Cather. By the by, anyone know a ...
... Ewan
11/18/08
"Brokeback Mountain" ***
by E. Annie Proulx
11/18/08
Amadeus ***½
by Peter Shaffer
11/18/08
O Pioneers! (#295) ***
by Willa Cather
11/19/08
N or M, by Agatha Christie
O, Pioneers! , by Willa Cather
P: A Novel, by Andrew Lewis Conn
Q, by Luther Blissett
R. Crumb Handbook, The, by R. Crumb (of course!
Yes! I loved O Pioneers . I would recommend it also!
... one, I'll read it.
I'm wondering if you might not like some of the books about settlers on the American frontier--O Pioneers! by Willa Cather or My Antonia, also by her.
Or maybe Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)?
Just some ideas . . .
I finished O Pioneers! which I loved. Next up will be The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh for my book club (and inspired by LT). We're also reading Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink aloud.
37. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. I loved it.
ETA touchstone
... Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson aloud to the kids. What a wonderful book! An all-time favorite. I am really enjoying O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.
... Who by Randall Toye
In the Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander
The Years with Ross by James Thurber
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - a 1929 edition!
92 Stories by James Thurber
Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Blue Smoke ...
... Who by Randall Toye
In the Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander
The Years with Ross by James Thurber
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - a 1929 edition!
92 Stories by James Thurber
Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Blue Smoke ...
I'll add my name on the list of LTer with O Pioneers on the TBR pile.
I also agree that Willa Cather is under appreciated. Maybe because in this century we seem to be spending much more time reading authors from Asia and Africa than we did when some of us were in school. I know at least ...
127 & 128: I read O Pioneers in college and adored it. Cather is one of our more underappreciated authors.
O Pioneers is on my TBR pile, too, AMQS. Let me know what you think!
... Ghosh, which I've read about here on LT. It's not quite ready for me to pick up from the library, so I think I'll read O Pioneers by Willa Cather in the meantime. Another classic I feel I should have read, but somehow missed.
#62. I've read and enjoyed My Antonia and O Pioneers and have another 10 on my tbr pile.
I must spend more time reading all these wonderful books!!
... into the idea of reading whatever I wanted, after years of reading mostly books assigned for class. But I listened to O pioneers! on audio last year, and it really grew on me. While reading One of ours the past few weeks, I really *enjoyed* the whole thing, and the pages kept turning. I ...
One other name that comes to mind is Willa Cather and her O Pioneers and My Antonia. She wrote about her native Nebraska, about Czechs as far as I remember.
... about literature? I adored My Antonia by Willa Cather and have since read others of hers (though not, I'm sorry to say, O Pioneers ~ yet). I also loved The Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman, which I can assure you I would have loathed when I was in high school.
ETA ending ...
From BookMooch:
The World to Come by Dara Horn
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques Poitras
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
Finished Man Crazy. Read O Pioneers by Willa Cather. Enjoyed both books.
Just started Nectar in a Seive by Kamala Markandaya about rural life in India. Good so far.
34. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather - liked this one.
... Men by Cormac McCarthy ***½
6. Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry ***
7. "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx
8. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather ***
hemlokgang & joycepa:
also wonderful: O Pioneers! Once again the frontier life of the Midwest and her simple but elegant writing.
... so, so I can't really say what possesed me to check out Bridget Jones' Diary. I think I wanted something lighter after O Pioneers! , but I'm sure there are better choices out there. Not so much a fan.
... convinced me that I didn't like Willa Cather books (quite the leap of logic there). I later read both My Antonia and O Pioneers! and found Ms. Cather quite remarkable.
This time around, O Pioneers! was a re-read and I loved it as much as before. A strong female character, a tragic ...
... - Drew Gilpin Faust
2. Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4. O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
5. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
6. The Giver - Lois Lowry
7. Atonement - Ian McEwan
8. In the Presence of ...
Freebies at an old school library trying to get rid of their books:
The Robe by Lloyd Douglas
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (I already have plenty of copies of this, but this one had a prologue by G.K. Chesterton, so I couldn't resist)
Mom ...
... Jonathan Lethem
17. Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
18. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
19. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
20. The Magus by John Fowles
21. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
22. King Lear (New Folger Library Shakespeare) by W ...
...
Fiction:
The Great Gatsby
Women of the Silk
Slaughter House-Five
Saturday (touchstone not working)
O Pioneers
Honorable Mention: Kafka on the Shore
Non-Fiction
The Lemon Tree
A Man Without A Country
Dead Man Walking
Team of Rivals (which I haven't ...
Forgot to mention Willa cather and her books of the pioneering of Nebraska O Pioneers! , the Song of the Lark and My Antonia
O Pioneers! , Willa Cather
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978, Adrienne Rich
Orlando: a Biography, Virginia Woolf
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Gloria St ...
Touchstones: O Pioneers! .
Random thoughts:
Names like Signa and Nelse Jensen, and the odd jumbling of the supposedly Swedish traditions and inclinations make this an odd read for a Swede, or for those familiar with Wilhelm Moberg's book series. It is clear that Willa Cather really has no ...
Touchstones: O Pioneers! .
In O Pioneers!, she claims, she found her own voice for the first time. (310, afterword)
"Since I wrote this book for myself I ignored all the situations and accents that were then generally thought to be necessary." (310, afterword)
Touchstones: O Pioneers! .
She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music. She had felt it as her heart was hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild ...
... Monette
57. The Silent Pool by Patricia Wentworth
58. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
59. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
60. Brahma's Dream by Shree Ghatage
... soon as I'm done, I will issue you a personal invitation to browse my shelves. Deal? =)
I read So Big instantly after O, Pioneers and I found the comparison (particularly concerning the description of the earth, and the farmers' toil) really interesting. If you do get around to reading So ...
aluvalibri: By the way, I happened to see that you enjoyed O, Pioneers . I read it this summer and really liked it. What did you think of So Big? (If you've read it.)
... Books list.
Granted, it's been several years since I read My Ántonia. But it's only been a few days since I finished O Pioneers! and I can't think of a single objectionable thing in it... I mean, her writing's pretty mellow. Well, I suppose there was a murder. But it wasn't at all ...
I've recently read O Pioneers and I'm almost done with So Big. I'd really love recommendations for other early 20th century agrarian-themed novels, preferably with strong, female protagonists.
Any language/country of origin goes!
... this enthusiastic about a book, and I keep thinking to myself, 'How did I ever miss this?'
Right before So Big, I read O Pioneers , and the comparison is a remarkably interesting one to make.
ellevee: I enjoyed Disgrace very much.
... Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
14. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
15. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
16. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
... Lethem
April
17. Suite Francaise -- Irene Nemirovsky
18. A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeleine L'Engle
19. O Pioneers! -- Willa Cather
(Was traveling for half the month, so not so much reading!)
May
20. The Magus -- John Fowles
... ntigone
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
Lost Horizon
Brave New World
The Things They Carried
O Pioneers
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lost Horizon
Amphigorey
Bloody Chamber--to be honest, we only read one of the short stories, but I bought the book to find ...
... on Parade and Up the Country by Miles Franklin; Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton; Cindie by Jean Devanny; The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard; A town like Alice by Nevil Shute; Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough.
Sorry for the long list, but I figured I ...
Here are some recommendations for Nebraska:
My Antonia by Willa Cather
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
My Antonia and O Pioneers! by Willa Cather for Nebraska
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