One thing (among many) noticeable on Facebook is that everyone talks about the weather. As in life, I suppose. And winter, it seems, has arrived but good. Everywhere.
Recently, it snowed in Houston. Right now, it’s snowing in Florida and Georgia. There are blizzards blowing through the Dakotas and Minnesota, and where I sit right now in suburban Boston we’re between storms, but the snow is at least a foot high outside.
Lately I’ve been turning around in my head the idea of a read-along. A Little House read-along. If you’re anything like me, you’ve read the book series dozens of times. I love putting twenty-first century life behind to settle in to the familiarity of oyster soup at the Boasts, or Friday Night Literaries, or the cutter courtship of Laura and Almanzo. It never gets old.
I’ve done read-alongs before in email groups or on bulletin boards, but never in a blog. Usually, the read-alongs are done in order, starting with Little House in the Big Woods. But that 1950 Long Winter radio program (we provided the link in a post yesterday), along with the set-in of winter across the country, got me thinking. Let’s buck tradition and ignore chronology. Let’s read The Long Winter.
I’ll start. I’ll post about Chapter 1 soon-ish. Tomorrow or the next day or maybe the next. In the meantime, if you want to join in, break out that old paperback (you know you have one) and make hay while the sun shines along with us.
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