Long Winter is my favorite, because it's in my "Cold" collection on Kindle!
After years of reading and rereading it, I was really weirded out to read Pioneer Girl and discover that the Ingalls family were *not* living alone at the time, that there was another family sharing the house with them all winter, and for artistic reasons, Laura and Rose decided not to depict them.
I have to say, much like discovering beagles look nothing like Snoopy, I always have a sense of betrayal when I discover the reality of Laura's life didn't match the books. Not betrayal that she didn't depict what really happened, just that I've been imagining something a certain way this whole time, and reality is not living up to my expectations!
(Beagles are plain white and bipedal, fight me. :P)
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Date: 2023-03-17 08:35 pm (UTC)After years of reading and rereading it, I was really weirded out to read Pioneer Girl and discover that the Ingalls family were *not* living alone at the time, that there was another family sharing the house with them all winter, and for artistic reasons, Laura and Rose decided not to depict them.
I have to say, much like discovering beagles look nothing like Snoopy, I always have a sense of betrayal when I discover the reality of Laura's life didn't match the books. Not betrayal that she didn't depict what really happened, just that I've been imagining something a certain way this whole time, and reality is not living up to my expectations!
(Beagles are plain white and bipedal, fight me. :P)