A Girl of the Limberlost (1909)

Read ALL of her books in my teen years, own two of them....plan on re-reading them again some day...remember with such fondness, introduced me to ginseng!!...filled with mild romance, love of Nature...I recommend...G. ( )

I have held onto this book for 48 hours after I read it. I reluctantly have to return it to the Hudson Library and Historical Society. This book has stayed with me. I yelled, screamed, cried a million tears as I let the words and the story line pour over me. This book has stayed with me. I wish everyone could stop what they are doing a read just a chapter a day. They like me would never be the same afterwards. ( )

I expected to learn about a forgotten time, a time when people worked the land, and girls wore dresses, and life was simple. But I seemed to be consumed with reflecting on the relationships in the story, and how even today, we suffer unnecessarily because of a lack of communication. Pride is a terrible thing, so is keeping secrets.
So many life lessons are learned while reading this story. All the characters have something to teach us. Gene Stratton-Porter was a great author.
Enjoyed learning about moths as well. Mrs. Comstock was my favorite character. ( )

When I visited my grandmother I would climb into the old walnut tree and sit with a book or two and a pocket full of apples, in case I got hungry and didn't want to climb down and smash walnuts with a rock and eat them. This was one of her books, and she gave it to me when I was a bit older, to keep. I loved it dearly and uncritically; I loved the heroine, the drama with her hard and bitter mother, the story of the woods and swampland.

Recently I reread it, in my own woodlands, as an environmentalist, and I thought "oh, by golly, her mom was right not to sell the land to be logged off and destroyed". And I took less kindly to the plundering of the swamps for moths to sell to collectors. (though I still loved the dress Eleanor designs)

And such is the perspective of time. ( )

I found this book surprisingly good--in an Anne of Green Gables kind of way. ( )