Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm, (Paperback)

from hipdeep

What a surprise, that this book should jump off the shelves of a second-hand store and into my wife's hands. Back in the late 90s, when Laskas was writing up her transition to farm life in essays for the Washington Post Magazine on Sundays, my then-girlfriend and I would hand them back and forth,...

from vlawhead

Witty, charming memoir

from branchhead

started off slow, almost didn't keep reading, glad i did. i really liked the author's descriptive, introspective writing. dying cat brought me to tears. i would love to have 50 acres and a poodle, but will gladly exist on my 3 acres. yes, i already have the poodle. a standard poodle. not one of t...

from Pat_F.

Blog Posts, not a Cohesive NarrativeSPOILERSAlthough this hit me where I (want to) live in terms of wish fulfillment, the story was a bit too stream-of-consciousness and fragmented for me to really buy into it. It works much better if you picture it as a series of blog posts or columns, which was...

from itsJUSTme

Very funny, Loved it. Very real book just about learning to live in the country.