Another book read!

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12) The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure

I've been reading this book for about 3 weeks.  Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series was a major influence on my youth and on my life. McClure spends about a year going on a pilgrimage to the many Ingalls and Wilder locales in the US, and along the way explains her own love for the series.  Recommended for grown-up Laura fans, but not necessarily for someone who still wants to be immersed in "Laura World."  

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It was fun, I am a terrible reader of non-fiction (I usually lose interest and abandon the book between 1/2 and 3/4 of the way in) and I finished the whole thing!

I once visited the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in DeSmet, SD. I was a little surprised and disappointed to discover while reading the book that there is also a 30-acre homesite there to visit, which I somehow hadn't known about. But I did get to see the reproduced house, a reproduction of a small school like Laura taught at, and the house that Pa built in town, as well as the brick building that was the shop where the spent The Long Winter. (That's privately owned by a law firm now, so you can only see the outside of it.) It was pretty cool for this Laura fan!

You absolutely should visit the Iowa site someday!