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Two Book Reviews


(This post was written a few years ago. I published it recently)



I have been reading several really good books from the library. The first is "The Thread That Runs So True" by Jesse Stuart. It is about the author's experiences as a teacher in a one-room country school beginning at the age of 17. It has fascinating details of rural life in Kentucky.

The following is a quote from the front page:

"If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten all eternity."
~ Daniel Webster

The second book is "Calico Bush" by Rachel Field.
It is another excellent book. Marguerite Ledoux, born in France, travels as a "bound-out girl" to Maine. (She works for the family as an indentured servant until the age of eighteen) 

Many trials and exciting events await the Sargent family as they disembark the Isabella B. Indians, fires, a roof raising, a corn husking party, and surviving the long cold winter. A great way to learn about history. The opposite of a dry history textbook!

"Calico Bush" is a story of the first rank. Adult readers as well as boys and girls will be grateful to Rachel Field for this fine and absorbing tale. Its roots go deep into the soil of that Maine which the author knows so well and the style suggests the strength and beauty of Winter woods and the northern Spring."
                              -Anne Thaxter Eaton, New York Times

Maggie (Marguerite's nickname) makes a quilt with her good friend, Hepsa Jordan. It is called the Delectable Mountains quilt and the name is taken from the book "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan. If you want to see what the quilt pattern looks like go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5JmcDM8e4 




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