Little House On The Prairie is a novel encapsulating the pioneering spirit and importance of family - and we have five other books perfect for your next read!
These compelling stories, people, and descriptions of a time long gone are all reasons for revisiting one of America’s first great female authors of the 20th century.
Importance Of Friendship In My Antonia
Importance Of Friendship In My Antonia
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Why do some friends have a special connection? In Willa Catherâs, My Antonia, many people have a bond but not like Antonia Shimerda and Jim Burden. Having met in their youth and knowing each others families. They have an emotional bond. Antonia and Jim share an enduring bond of friendly love. This includes a regard for family members, sharing life experiences, and always coming together at the end. Antonia and Jim share an enduring bond of friendly love including a regard for family members. Mr. Shimerda, Antoniaâs father, died of depression. The Burdens have helped the Shimerdas stabilize their lives from Bohemia to America. After giving his graduation speech, Jim talks to Antonia and says, âI thought about your papa when I wrote my speech,
The 2021 reading list begins with Kurt Vonnegut s Mother Night. The Talk of Iowa Book Club is a team effort, and joining Charity Nebbe on this episode are two of the people she s worked most closely with to compile the 2021 reading list.
Selected books should be available in mass market paperback. Many are either written by Iowans or people who have spent time in Iowa or have another Iowa connection. Some don’t have any connection to our state, but we’re sure that Iowans will enjoy them.
January:
Kurt Vonnegut s Mother Night
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” That’s the most famous quote from “Mother Night,” a strange, cautionary tale from Kurt Vonnegut. The novel is told in the first person by Howard W. Campbell Jr. as he awaits trial for war crimes. He is an American who was living in Germany when World War II broke out, recruited to serve by both Nazis and the Allied Forces. The book is set in the past, but f