Good morning! After the last few days I am so glad that we had the week we did for our canoe and camping trip last week! Temperatures have dipped to 30 in the mornings and the last few afternoons as the ones coming through the weekend have, and are calling for rain.
On the bright side, this will plant me in the house to work on reading our Classic read for Book club on Tuesday, Giants In The Earth.
Basically it is about a family that moves from Minnesota in the 1870’s to South Dakota. The book talks of this Norwegian families trials as they try to make a new home for themselves. Per Hansa (oh yes the names are hard) is the man who believes his future is ahead of him and all things will pan out. His wife, Beret wishes they could go back to the comforts of what they had.
Lets just say I am struggling with this read. I pick it up and long to read something else. I need this weekend to get a good feel for the book and for our review on Tuesday. On the bright side, I believe the review will save this one. We are going to have our meeting in an 1800’s cabin with no electricity that one of our Bookies owns. We will have kerosene lamps, and rumors of a potato bar for our dinner as they ate a lot ( A LOT) of potatoes.
This afternoon I am going to go look for some “prairie wear” for the meeting and see if someone can make me a bonnet.
SO thats all happening here. I have some things to do this morning and then off I go. 😀 Hopefully I will get a review up this afternoon. That’s the plan anyway.
Have you ever read (attempted) this book? Are there other classics you have read that you struggled through?
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Your nights are in the 30s? Wow, it’s getting down in the 60s here. I haven’t read that book but feel for you – I know what it’s like to slog through a book for book club.
I want to give up Kathy… I have several good ones I want to read, but feel I should keep trying 😀
Sounds like such fun for the book club. Would love to see photos and hear the book clubbers thoughts.
Oh there will be pictures 🙂
Living just to your east, I am guessing that weather is headed towards us. I will be happy, the last few days have been gross and sticky.
How awesome, the cabin sounds like the perfect place to have your book club meeting!! How fun!!! I am looking forward to reading about it.
Thanks Erin. We have a chance of snow by the end of this week too. GAH.
Brrr. We are cooling down as well, but not that cool.
Yeah… I am soooo not ready.
Brrrr. I’m hoping it doesn’t veer south anytime soon!
The book sounds a little depressing, I’d have trouble with it too. And a steady diet of potatoes is not my idea of gourmet, although I bet your potato bar will be delicious!
If only they had potato bar back int he 1800’s…. perhaps things would have went better for them 😀
It’s cooler here (in the eighties), which is just right. Not hot and not cold. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. Hope you warm up to the book…it doesn’t look like a book I’d enjoy.
I LOVE the 80’s! I should come hang out with you Laurel 🙂
BRRRRRR….I am not ready for those kinds of temperatures.
We are having fabulous weather here. It is in the 80’s. A resurgence of summer. 🙂
I love it.
Thats the way it was last week Elizabeth – nice gorgeous weather.
Oh no…looks like we are in for it next week then. 😦
I don’t think I would like that book.
Definitely going to be a struggle…
I’ve never read or even heard of this book before but it sounds like one of those depressing kind of novels I would love. Please do a review!! Also, going to a cabin to discuss this sounds like you are in the best book club ever!
Your bookclub meeting will likely be the highlight for this classic! I’ve struggled through Jane Austen. I find it too dry for my tastes but I did love Bronte’s Jane Eyre.