Ep 108 - Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (w/ Margaret H. Willison)

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 13 April 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

One of the reasons we read is because books can give us perspective—good ones can fully transport us to times and places where we've never been and, in some cases, could never go. That's the case with Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, stories she wrote about her childhood on the American frontier.

These books aren't without their problems (there are fairly significant questions about authorship and racism is sort of everywhere), but they're worth reading because of how completely they immerse you in the lives of their protagonists. Join us and special guest Margaret H. Willison as we talk about one of the best-known titles in the series.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	What guests people we should like to say, hi, here's the show, and let's let this new person talk
0:40.6	about themselves. Great, hi, here's the show, it's overdue, it's podcast about the books that you've
0:46.3	been meeting to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. And I guess my name is Margaret.
0:50.9	I guess your name is Margaret. I know it was Margaret. I guess that's the point where I say my name.
0:56.4	Welcome to the show. What's up? What's going on? What's your relationship to books?
1:08.0	That was really, that was really smooth. I'm good at intros. How about you tell people that this
1:12.4	is Margaret Willisson? Margaret H. Willisson technically. Margaret H. Willisson, I'm sorry that I need to
1:17.8	be on brand. Right, well, it's just Margaret Willisson, then it's my mom. Oh, excuse me, that's my mom.
1:26.1	The initial isn't just to be fancy. It's like mostly to be fancy. Yeah, I hear you. It's like 80, 20.
1:32.8	Exactly. Okay. Yeah, she's at Mrs. Friday next on Twitter, and she is here to talk about books
1:40.4	with us this week. So welcome, Margaret. Hi, Andrew. Hi, Craig. Thanks for having me. Thanks for
1:46.7	giving me an excuse to fill in one of the most egregious gaps in my reading history, which
1:53.0	we'll get to in a second, but which is, which is that that you're reading this week?
1:57.7	A little house on the prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder for the very first time.
2:03.5	That's so good. Why is that? Why is that such a blemish on your record? Like why to go back to my
2:09.4	earlier graceful question of what is your relationship to books? Like, why is this particularly
2:16.0	agreed? It's like I haven't read them, but it doesn't really matter. So.
2:19.1	Well, on the one hand, like simply by a fact of being like a woman who claims my concidious
2:25.7	inship, like I think I think this is sort of required. But like I never read these books,
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