I don't usually do book reviews, but this one was so good I had to make an exception. I was listening to it on Thursday as I made biscuits, and I was riveted. Besides, the book and audiobook are free online.
The book is called Mothering on Perilous, and it's about a schoolteacher in a very poor area of Kentucky in the early 1900s. She comes to the school to do music and gardening, but she ends up as housemother to a group of wild, unmannered, and belligerent boys. As she tries to mother these boys, she learns about the culture of feuding they come from and struggles with how she should guide them. The author, Lucy Furman, bases the book on her own experience as teacher and housemother at Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky.
It's a great read. I highly recommend it.
In other news, I now have a new rolling pin. I got it for Christmas. It's a wooden rolling pin, heavier than my old one. I'm still getting used to it, but I like it already. It's better suited for heavy-duty rolling, and I seem to do a lot of that--wrestling cracker dough into submission, for example.
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