Sponsored Post: A Girl of the Limberlost, Part 1

[evelyn_b]

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osprey_archer gave me a list of books to read in exchange for a donation to the ACLU, and A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter was one of them. You can also sponsor a post with a $10 donation, if you would like to find out what I think of any book. This is Part 1 because I'm only four chapters into A Girl of the

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[todayiamadaisy]

Oh my goodness, this sounds familiar! I read this a few years ago and wondered about Freckles too. He does turn up later, along with his wife, the Swamp Angel, in a way that made me think I was supposed to punch the air, saying, "Yeah, the Swamp Angel!" That's when I was motivated to find out that this is indeed a sequel to a book called Freckles, which presumably tells the story of how he came to marry someone called the Swamp Angel.

I've just looked up what I wrote about it, and I apparently liked both Kate and Elnora's fiancé's ex-fiancée for being funny in the last chapter (I have no recollection of that character), and I loathed a little brat called Billy.

[evelyn_b]

All right! There's definitely some sequel-esque language so far that is . . . noticeably less stand-alone than I would expect from a reasonably literary juvenile sequel of this period, though maybe I've just been spoiled by L. M. Montgomery.

Billy has been threatened in the Table of Contents, but has not yet appeared. I hope the sneaky-pete dude who watches Elnora through her bedroom window (his name is in fact Pete) doesn't turn out to be Elnora's fiance, though; I don't like peeping Toms.