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Tag: Birchbark House

Reading to my kids

I've been reading the Birchbark House series to my kids, before bedtime. I read the series myself a year ago but reading it to them I've experienced these stories through their eyes, and they have been enthralled. We've read to my son practically since he was born and he's always loved it. Even now at … Continue reading Reading to my kids →

Kevin Rosero Birchbark House, Little House, Mark Twain, Tolkien 2 Comments February 2, 2022February 17, 2022 2 Minutes

Favorite books of 2021 (and 2020)

My blog is new, so I've never picked out favorite books for a year, but here we go. My ten faves for 2021, fiction and nonfiction, out of the 66 books I read: 1. New Testament -- the recent translation by David Bentley Hart 2. Notre Dame de Paris Translated by Alban Krailsheimer 3. Lonesome … Continue reading Favorite books of 2021 (and 2020) →

Kevin Rosero Uncategorized Leave a comment December 25, 2021February 17, 2022 1 Minute

Makoons

"Makoons" is the last book written, thus far, in "The Birchbark House" series. (Spoilers ahead.) It's a deceptively simple story, which you think is just about the details of ordinary life, but then you realize how many deaths have taken place in the course of the story.  Nokomis. Angeline and Fishtail. Two Strike's pet lamb … Continue reading Makoons →

Kevin Rosero Birchbark House, Texts Connected 1 Comment October 28, 2021February 2, 2022 2 Minutes

Chickadee

This has been my favorite of the "Birchbark House" series. Jacob asked me while I was in the middle of it to read it to him, so we read the last half together. The introduction of other tribes goes one step further in this book with the Metis people, who “are the sons and daughters … Continue reading Chickadee →

Kevin Rosero Birchbark House, Little House Leave a comment October 27, 2021February 2, 2022 6 Minutes

The Birchbark House

During the first quarantine summer (2020), my family and I were binging heavily on the "Little House On the Prairie" television show and starting to read Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" novels. My wife, who read all those novels as a child, suggested we look into a series of young adult novels told from the … Continue reading The Birchbark House →

Kevin Rosero Birchbark House, Little House 2 Comments October 26, 2021February 2, 2022 4 Minutes

My quarantine addiction

August 22, 2020 I saw the BBC's "War and Peace" on a Saturday and a Sunday.  I spent the following week getting other books “out of the way,” so to speak.  On Monday I did my Zoom reading on a “Moby-Dick” marathon, which finished the next day (in the middle of a tropical storm left … Continue reading My quarantine addiction →

Kevin Rosero Tolstoy 1 Comment February 5, 2021February 25, 2022 3 Minutes
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