Roger Lea MacBride
Hardcover | Pages: 243 pages Rating: 3.9 | 2527 Users | 84 Reviews
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| Title | : | Bachelor Girl (Little House: The Rose Years #8) |
| Author | : | Roger Lea MacBride |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 243 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1999 by Perfection Learning (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Childrens. Classics |
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*Ranting below...and I do spoil a few things as well!*As my family knows, I rant about this book all the time. It really does deserve one star. Shame on Rose. Shame on her! Seriously....Book six showed her attitude a little, then a bit more in book seven, and by this one it is full blown. I can't believe her attitude. She cares nothing for Paul's feeling or for how her parents brought her up. Poor, poor Laura and Almonzo.
And then on top of that, I found out that the real Rose Wilder Lane had no romantic interest in Paul Cooley. So the author raises our hopes for no reason whatsoever and then brings them crashing down because, well, it isn't historically correct.
Still...poor Paul!
If I gave this more stars it would be merely for Paul. He needs his own story. I can't believe how shamefully Rose treated him, and she even had the audacity to think how PLAIN he is!!!
Sorry, I don't like to rant like this. I really don't. The first half of the book is better than the last half, but once Rose goes off to do her own thing, my opinion of her fell dramatically. There....now, who else thinks Paul deserves his own book??
Mention Books During Bachelor Girl (Little House: The Rose Years #8)
| Original Title: | Bachelor Girl (Little House) |
| ISBN: | 0780798228 (ISBN13: 9780780798229) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Little House: The Rose Years #8 |
| Characters: | Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, Almanzo Wilder |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Rating Epithetical Books Bachelor Girl (Little House: The Rose Years #8)
Ratings: 3.9 From 2527 Users | 84 ReviewsCritique Epithetical Books Bachelor Girl (Little House: The Rose Years #8)
Wavered between 3 & 4 stars.Rose really falls in love with Paul here. Unfortunately, he does not want women to work. And its more and more obvious why their relationship didnt work out. She moves to Kansas City to be a telegraph operaror.For having lived in Louisiana and courted an older man, Rose is very naïve. Its actually annoying.She moves to San Francisco for a better job (and be closer to Paul). There needs a girl named Louise who is quite fashionable. And really, I find her a worseLike many people I found this book and series to be disappointing. I knew that Rose would be different that Laura but wow what a HUGE difference. Rose ended up hanging out with the wrong crowd when in California. I can't say that I'm surprised that her and Paul didn't end up together. He wanted her to be a housewife and it was clear since she was young that is not what she wanted. All I can say is that I definitely liked the books about Laura better.
I will start this off by saying that I do not like the character of Rose at all. She is flighty, annoying and naiive. Really naiive. Not in the sense of not knowing anything about how things work in the city, or all the new things to see there. But really in the sense of just being so carlessly stupid about the people she associates with, her ideas of "having a good time", and her knowledge of love. So, she though she was in love with Paul, and she wanted to marry him, but then he got all
I thoroughly enjoyed this series, giving the previous 7 books a deserving 5 stars. This book, however, was my least favourite. I gave it 3 stars, not because the writing was poor but because Rose did not fulfill my expectations of displaying wisdom and good judgement after moving out on her own. At the start of the book, Rose had returned home to Mansfield with her parents after she spent a year with her aunt in Louisiana while studying and graduating from high school. Her parents were back
I happened to be in the children's section of the library and picked this up because I liked the Rose Years book when I was a kid. This book covers Rose leaving Rocky Ridge at age 17 to take a telegraphy course (which turned out to be a sham) in Kansas City. She works as an operator there for a while and basically gets fired because she and her visiting beau miss a train and have to stay out all night. Then she goes to San Francisco to work as an operator there. She eventually meets another girl
This is by far my least favorite of the Rose series. Rose moves to San Fran to become a telegraph operator, makes poor friends, and becomes selfish and shallow. I'm pretty sure the whole Paul Cooley character is fictional...it better be. Or else Rose is an idiot. Overall, Bachelor Girl provides a poor ending to the series. (Although, Rose Wilder Lane's real life does not have a happy ending...so I guess it's fitting.) I wouldn't recommend reading this one with kids.
This is my least favorite of the Rose Wilder Lane books. I've decided that I'm disappointed in Rose, period. I've read enough about her now from other sources to know that Mr. MacBride did a very good job writing about her, and he stayed true to the Little House on the prairie format, but I just didn't enjoy her life choices. This is the final book in the Rose series, and she pretty much throws her old life out and chooses a wild new life as a swinging single girl.Finished the series as a
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