Caroline: Little House, Revisited

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We have 9 read-alikes for Coraline, but non-members are limited to two results. To see the complete list of this book's read-alikes, you need to be a member. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Sarah Miller excelled at developing the characters of of several of Caroline’s neighbors including Mrs. Scott and Edwards. She also made palpable the loneliness and apprehension Caroline experienced as she traveled to Kanas. The Ghost Children – The spirits of three children who were previous victims of the Beldam: two girls and one boy. The boy is described as having a dirty face and red trousers. One of the girls has brown hair, a pink blouse, and a pink skirt. The other has a brown bonnet and brown dress. They were trapped by the Beldam at different times before Coraline, and reside in the dark space behind the mirror. After having their souls restored, they go to the afterlife. You see, for the majority of my life, a friend was someone who would, say, help me move a couch. Someone you could bum 10 dollars off of if you needed to. A friend was someone who felt comfortable enough to come over to my house without calling first. Then, if I wasn't home, they would let themselves in, eat out of my fridge, and start watching TV.

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I never once thought about what it might be like for Ma and Pa Ingalls. As a girl, I just focused on the lovely children's stories told from Laura's perspective. The Little House books are legendary, so Sarah Miller was very brave to step in that territory with a new perspective -- Caroline's. She nailed it. Now that I also have lived the life of a wife and mother, I loved this book every bit as much as I did the original series. It was clear that Miller did extensive research so she could give this book more depth than the series and make it worthy of adult consumption. Coraline is a short but delightfully dark and creepy book that just happens to feature one of my absolute favorite characters. Is it wrong that I want to be Coraline's best friend??? This tells the story of Caroline, Ma from the Little House on the Prairie books starting at the point where Charles tells Caroline he has had an offer on the little house and land in Wisconsin. And then comes the second part of the plan. Taking the still young Mary and Laura, they will leave Caroline’s brother’s family and other relatives and head for Kansas to settle. The impact of this move ion Caroline is apparent. Leaving family and all that is familiar is a huge wrench for her, but she loves her husband deeply and knows this is his dream.

Sarah Miller really dives deep on Caroline, bringing up the historical facts of her own childhood (losing her own father at age five and being raised by a stepfather) to process the relationships she saw between Charles and the girls. She really examines the relationship between Caroline and Charles, a very tight, loving relationship that any couple would envy. Sarah Miller revists the Ingalls family, telling the story from Caroline Ingalls' perspective. The life of a pioneer family from an adult's view is still magical.....but also harsh, frightening and unforgiving. Read by the author - woohoo! As much as I grumble about some of his books, there's no denying that he's absolutely fabulous to listen to - this man could read a grocery list and I'd give it a listen. I knew Peter Rogers and Betty E. Box for many years. I'm sure they would approve and open a bottle of champagne to celebrate Caroline's book. Cheers Caroline! NetGalley, Robin Price

Coraline by Neil Gaiman | Goodreads

Unlike Gaiman's fiction for adults, every sentence, every word has its purpose. And finally, Gaiman does not throw in some weird sex scene. Can I get a hallelujah? In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. I would like to compliment the author on the lovemaking scenes between Charles and Caroline. They are beautifully written and I think that is a very difficult thing to do. This terrific book has profiles of several of the key players, and some wonderful photographs and memories, and is well worth a read if you like this type of bawdy, primitive humour. Books Monthly What disappointed me the most, though, was the gratuitousness in the book. Miller didn’t need to include many, many references throughout the book about Caroline’s breasts, the milk dripping from them, the gory parts of the details of labor. She didn’t need to tell as much about the “necessary.” And most of all, she didn’t need to write the eight or ten episodes about Caroline and Charles’ physical relationship. The section about their wedding night was too explicit, and was completely unnecessary to the theme of the book. I think Caroline Ingalls would be appalled. I think Laura Ingalls Wilder would be mortified. I found that to be very disappointing instead of enriching.

I am already looking forward to reading Coraline again. So far, I have read three works by Neil Gaiman, and they have all been stellar. Is it possible for him to write any bad books? I guess I will have to find out. Reading this book, makes you want to visit the studio where all the films were made, and feel like you was there in between the characters. The one thing I will say for the author is that she remained true to Laura's voice. But, in my opinion, that's where she failed. Laura wrote largely through a child's eyes and for children. To "hear" that same voice thinking sexy thoughts about Pa? Weird at best and disconcerting at worst.

Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller | Goodreads

Readers familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, will find this very familiar. Miller chooses to retell Wilder’s stories for an adult audience, focusing on Laura’s mother, Caroline. Carry On Regardless' is a great read for those with everything from a general interest in British film and entertainment to an enthusiasm for these specific titles. Just as it's easy to dismiss the Carry Ons as sexist, it's also easy for fans to indulge in some 'they don't make them like that any more' reverie, but I think that their influence is actually alive and well. This book highlights how at the heart of the Carry Ons was a talented ensemble cast whose brilliant collaboration brought silly humour to the big screen and made generations of Britons laugh at themselves, through silly humour, wordplay and spoof. Growing up the LHOTP books were my refuge, my escape read. The day I received a complete set of books was truly one of my happiest days. They are books I will smell - a cinnamon, paper aroma or something like that. One moment in the book that I did like was when Mrs. Scott was still in the house after Carrie’s birth, and Mary, Laura, and Charles returned from the Indian camp. (That was rather clever, too, inserting Caroline’s labor as the reason for why they went to the camp that day). Caroline has a brief moment of perspective where she sees her children as Mrs. Scott must see them. I really enjoyed that, and perhaps that’s one of the elements missing from the book - more connection with the children, who we grew up with. Caroline spends most of the book thinking of them as a chore and a job, and yes, children are, but they also bring us joy - and there’s none of that in this book. Mr. Jones – Coraline's father. He is usually found working at the house on his computer. He cares about Coraline very much and is kind, brave, and helpful. He makes "creative" food creations that Coraline strongly dislikes. He, too, is usually too busy to spend time with Coraline.Caroline Frost’s book is filled with insight into a British Institution. Yes, it was formulaic. But a formula that worked. The first five films remain my favourite, but over the years I’ve better appreciated the spoof and high camp element of later productions which took a rise out of everything imaginable. At one level, the humour may appear lavatorial, sexist and stupid. But below that, it’s really very clever; sometimes satirical look at ‘our’ society. Imperialistic, petty, unionist, exploitative and superb parody. One liner after one liner gets laughs in film after film and the big surprise is the shoestring budget. I love the way Gaiman takes on fairy tale attributes here. Keys and mirrors are frequent in the book, and Coraline literally enters a mirror world at the risk of being trapped there forever. She also has three neighbors who she visits on both sides of the mirror, and cycles of 3 is a common motif in fairy tale narratives. He toys around with tropes in humorous ways to fit his themes of self-identity, such as in the mirror world where her neighbor can actually call her by the correct name but she is then told by the cat that names are meaningless. ‘ Now you people have names,’ he tells her, ‘ that's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.’ The idea of naming something in a fairy tale often means taking power over it, but here we see names as a placeholder until we can have power over ourselves. Clever riffing on fairy tale logic is part of what makes Coraline such a sheer delight. For adults these things are harder. And it's doubly hard for me these days. My life has changed so much over the last five years, and my previously established metric for friendship doesn't work very well any more. The completely updated story of Carry On, Britain's largest film franchise, all the way from the gentle capers of the 1950s, through the raucous golden age of the 1960s, to its struggles in the decades (not plural) that followed.