Confessions of a Prairie Bitch : How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

from chickalea

Someone was talking about this book on Twitter the other day and I suddenly remembered I actually had a copy on my Nook. My mom had read it and said she thought I'd enjoy it a while back but I never got around to reading it until now. When I was a kid I was a big fan of Little House but honestly ...

from cemming

Nellie Oleson, Little House on the Prairie's rotten rich girl in ringlets, may have mellowed on the show's final years, but viewers could rely on a pinch of her savagery in every performance. As it turns out, the jack-in-the-box element of mean surprise that made Nellie compulsively watchable is ...

from alanna1122

I thought this was a really quick read. It stops short of truly enjoyable because frankly Alison Arngrim's life was no picnic. I enjoyed all the gossip about Little House on the Prarie. It is very conversational in tone and she is a person who has a really big personality so as I read her version...

from gaeta1

Growing up, I wasn't a huge fan of "Little House", even though I was exactly in the aimed-for demographic. I thought Michael Landon was a bit smarmy (and beardless, worse yet!) and the show took waaay too many liberties with the books. (I was a picky purist, even then.) I stopped watching even sp...

from lynnm

A fantastic book. Alison Arngrim is an amazingly brave woman, and hilarious to boot. This memoir of her growing up years and time spent as Nellie Oleson on The Little House on the Prairie TV series is immensely readable. Arngrim has a great sense of humor. She tells it like it was, never afraid t...