Weeks ago, I wrote about my experience in visiting famed author of the Little House books Laura Ingalls Wilder’s house in Mansfield, Missouri. I had read her newly released autobiography before taking this trip, and all of this information made me want to read her daughter’s writing. Rose Wilder Lane was an established and successful... Continue Reading →
It turns out that A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) by Gene Stratton-Porter is a sequel to another book, called Freckles. I realized this as I marked A Girl of the Limberlost as “read” on Goodreads, and saw that it was labeled #2. And then I realized that a character in the book, Freckles, whom... Continue Reading →
I first read Theodore Dreiser’s masterpiece An American Tragedy (1925) during the summer of 2003. Little did I know that the story unfolding before me in that book would also play out on my television set. It was as if Dreiser had gone to the future, observed what Scott Peterson did to his wife Laci... Continue Reading →
The Bookshelf of Emily J. 