This week’s blog was written by Karen and Kevin Pearce Kevin:
As I did with chapter 6, here are definitions for words that I had to look up due to the imparity between Fraser’s vocabulary and my own.

When looking at the title of this chapter, the beginning pages of this chapter meshed in my brain to make sense, most of the rest of the chapter made me look at the work absent in a different light.&n

A couple months ago, our minister began her sermon by saying that it is common to hear “They had more time in the old days, even referring to the pioneers” My best friend gave me a pointed look to whi

One thing that has made reading this book both exciting and humbling for me so far is the fact that Fraser’s vocabulary exceeds mine by leaps and bounds. I just finished writing my doctoral dissertati

This chapter speaks to me, in a way that probably most of you can identify. It explains the growth and the shift of Laura’s perspective: from early teens to newlywed.  This chapter really highlig

My favorite Little House book has always been “On the Banks of Plum Creek”.  As a child, I thought living in a dugout was quite fascinating and romantic.  I never thought about bugs crawling

Prairie Fires presents a vast amount of information, which can make some members hesitate in participating in the readalong.  If you’re feeling intimidated, it might be because you’ve been lulled

At the beginning of “On the Frontier,” Caroline Fraser describes the Big Woods in a way that is reminiscent of Laura’s description at the beginning of “Little House in the Big Woods,” even including a

Don’t you love a book that provides an immediate  emotional response and also  causes you to ponder questions from the very first sentence?  Caroline Fraser’s first sentence in Prairie