Pseudo biography of her grandmother who worked hard, lived in real time, not OCD about cleaning a ranch since ranch life was meant to be dirty and that alone depicts a sensible nature to me. Few times she considered to play over work, it was intense (fly an airplane for downtime? Only because it was a fun thing to do that held potential income). Lily world completely foreign to me and I did not feel inspired to check out ranch life after reading this. I had no interest to check out ranch life before reading this. I chose to read the book to learn more about the woman herself. I was inspired by Lily focus on independence and her stamina which not everyone has and few can learn. I do feel everyone can benefit knowing a woman like her. Lily Casey is definitely someone I’d love to have a friend – she would’ve been a blast going cross country with…And I loved the dynamic between her and her second husband. They did everything they could to support each other and make each other and their children happy. I wish Jeanette’s parent’s had been a little more thoughtful about the legacy they’d be leaving behind for their kids.
This was a great book-a combination of Little House and John Steinbeck.
—testing
The book was good, but did not like it as much as THE SILVER STAR.
—marieli
Another excellent read from this author.
—Emily
I cannot put JW's stuff down!
—Desiree
