my antonia

Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed this book. Enough so that I found a quiet place to sit and read it during lunch. It has all the things I love in a story-- romance, nature, and scandal-- but I didn't feel bad about reading it, as I do with most books containing those things, because it was assigned in an AP class. The first introduction to the book, not the one written by Willa Cather, admits that there really isn't much of a plot to it. The small moments, like descriptions of nature, that would be normally overlooked in a story were mostly all there was to it, so they became more important. There were some tragedies, like Antonia's father's death, but there was little focus on the death itself, more the impact it had on the characters. My Antonia seemed to be more about the setting and the characters than events, making it a welcome change from the surreal, fast-paced plot of Crime and Punishment.
Little Red