Melissa Gilbert is best known for playing Laura Ingalls Wilder in the tv show “Little House on the Prairie”. This is a memoir she has written. She was adopted at about 24 hours old, and was very overprotected by her mother. Despite this, they were quite close. Her parents did divorce, but tried to keep things as normal as possible for the kids; sadly, her father passed away when she was only 11-years old.

As she grew up, she went through a succession of on-again, off-again relationships, her first (that lasted quite a few years) with Rob Lowe. She later married (twice) – her first husband, Bo, was a piece of work, but she had a son with him. There were plenty of bumps along the way with her second husband, Bruce, as well, but they love each other and came through. Melissa also battled with alcoholism. (Just looked her up and see there was more to her story after the book was published.)

I quite liked this. I learned a lot about her that I didn’t know. There was a short bit, as she described her time as president of the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) that I was less interested in, due to the business nature of what she was describing. She did, of course, have a wonderful relationship with Michael Landon, which was nice to read about. ( )

This was eye opening. I didn't realize half pint had such a troubled past. I'm not sure she is a great story teller but if you grew up watching Little House and knew about her and Rob Lowe it was interesting. Rob Lowe's autobiography was great and he's a great storyteller but he didn't go into as much detail or as Melissa. This book filled in those gaps. She did drop a lot of names and didn't seem to hold much back when talking about those names. Good for her for being real. FYI she's a bit of a potty mouth. What would ma say?! ( )

Read half, skimmed some - quit!!

Name-dropping and narcissism... That's what I got from this. ( )

I was a little bit disappointed in this book. I did find it interesting that she talks A LOT about Rob Lowe and in his book, he doesn't mention Melissa very often. I thought his book was a lot kinder on the subject.

I LOVED Little House when I was young - LOVED it! At least until Laura got older, then I didn't like the way she was portrayed on the show. When I saw this book was out, I really wanted to read it. I don't know what I was expecting. I know her life wasn't all sunlight, roses, and wagon wheels but somehow, I just didn't get into the spirit of this memoir.

I didn't mind the name dropping, though. I mean, that's part of the reason I read the book! ( )