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Carrie Young

Autor de Nothing to Do But Stay

4 Obras 387 Miembros 12 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

A native of North Dakota and a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Carrie Young has lived for many years on a farm in Ohio

Obras de Carrie Young

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Young, Ahdele Carrine
Fecha de nacimiento
1922
Género
female
Lugares de residencia
Appam, North Dakota, USA
Ohio, USA

Miembros

Reseñas

I enjoy memoirs like these---I really should look for some more. I liked reading about all of the food and recipe descriptions, especially. I thought her mother was a genius in the way she used her chickens to breed turkeys---fantastic! I was also amazed at the way the doctors experimented with extreme dehydration to try to repair a detached retina. Can you imagine how dehydrated you'd have to be to make your eyes dry up enough to pop your retina back into place? Sad. The subtitle "My Pioneer Mother" is a bit misleading as there are really only a few lines about her mother as a single person and the book is just as much about everyone else as it is about her. At any rate, it was a good read---I'm glad I took the time.

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classyhomemaker | 8 reseñas más. | Dec 11, 2023 |
Another book read on the train--this time in eastern Montana, and western North Dakota--I was just 30 miles south of the homestead. Again, the backdrop added to the book--looking up and seeing rows of poplars (many most likely planted by homesteaders years ago)readying themselves against the coming winter really brought home the bleakness of the land and homesteading life.

This book is really a collection of connected essays about the author's mother--much about food (always fun) and one I especially liked ('The Best of Both Worlds') about growing up around two languages.… (más)
 
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giovannaz63 | 8 reseñas más. | Jan 18, 2021 |
Delightful collection of early 20th century immigrant life in northwestern North Dakota. Ms. Young is an excellent storyteller and the scenes she describes are easy to follow. It's not all cheery "house on the prairie" tales, nearly every one has a 'dark side' that shows the humanity, flaws and civility ( or lack therof).
 
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Fashion | 2 reseñas más. | Mar 21, 2019 |
I was given this book by a fellow librarian who said it was amazing. She was right. I couldn't put it down. Simply eloquent prose about a woman and her family living on the North Dakota plains. Sweet descriptions of childhood memories centering around education, food, and the strength and fortitude of those who came before us. I didn't purposefully read this during Women's History Month, but I am happy I did. In doing so I feel like I paid respect to the women who did it all first
 
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Jill41 | 8 reseñas más. | Mar 17, 2017 |

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Estadísticas

Obras
4
Miembros
387
Popularidad
#62,499
Valoración
4.0
Reseñas
12
ISBNs
18

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