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Julianne Moore recommended Little House in the Big Woods in Books (curated)

Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder | 1932 | Children, Fiction & Poetry

8.5

(11 Ratings)

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"I grew up with the Little House characters - I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder's books as a kid. Little House in the Big Woods is written for a younger child, and as you mature, the books do too. I was confused when my daughter did not like them at all. -- in Redbookmag.com I started reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series when I was 8. The drama of the series was enhanced by the fact that I knew these were true stories – the hardships and pleasures of the pioneer life she described had actually happened to a little girl, and not only had she survived it, but she had grown up to write about it too. The most emotionally wrenching and enthralling of the series was “The Long Winter,” a depiction of the winter her family endured in 1880-81 while they were living in South Dakota. The winter blizzards lasted seven long months, during which the railroads stopped running to their town, and her family was trapped inside their house, subsisting on a very meager diet of potatoes and brown bread. I can still remember the passages where Ingalls described twisting hay into sticks all day for fuel for the fire, and her worry that they would finally run out of hay and they would freeze to death. It kind of made my pre-adolescent worries pale by comparison."

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The Long Winter (Little House, #6)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

8.3 (7 Ratings) Rate It

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The fledgling town of De Smet in the Dakota Territory is hit hard by the brutal winter of 1880-1881....

The Round House

Louise Erdrich

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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One Sunday in 1988, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts learns that his mother has been the victim of a...

Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated War of the Worlds (2005) in Movies

Apr 9, 2020 (Updated Apr 10, 2020)

War of the Worlds (2005)

2005 | Action, Sci-Fi

6.3

(28 Ratings)

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Run From The Spaceships

War of the Worlds- is a good remake of the oringal, taking a different spin on it. Plus you have Tom Cruise running from spaceships which is a plus in my books.

The plot: Dockworker Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) struggles to build a positive relationship with his two children, Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and Robbie (Justin Chatwin). When his ex-wife, Mary Ann (Miranda Otto), drops them off at Ferrier's house, it seems as though it will be just another tension-filled weekend. However, when electromagnetic pulses of lightning strike the area, the strange event turns out to be the beginning of an alien invasion, and Ferrier must now protect his children as they seek refuge.

Its a good sci-fi action thriller.