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Mandie books?
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Has anyone read these books? Are they twaddlish, average, or true living books? I was not very impressed initially but am taking a second look at them.
LOVE the Mandie books! I read them growing up, and now my girls are hooked on them. They are some of the reason I love historical fiction to this day. They are super!
I own several in the series. (had heard great things about how similar this series is to Little House…and I found a great deal online so I grabbed it.) When I first received it, I read most of the first one. I liked it. I liked the historical fiction aspect; in addition, the storyline was interesting and kept calling me back. A guess that’s a pretty good definition for a “living” book. I ended up putting the series on my “wait a few years” shelf, only because it has a romance element that I don’t care to have my kids reading at this particular time/age. (nothing graphic, just the typical girl-likes-boy, girl-is-jealous-of-other-girl-because-of-a-boy kind of thing; and it’s really just a sub-plot…I’m just quite pickey on that particular stuff). Other than this, I found it a nice read.
Mandie books are what got me hooked on reading (of all sorts) when I was in middle school. I read them voraciously until I was about 13/14 or so. They are mysteries but there is a slight romance aspect that gets mentioned in some of them, however it is never a focus. Just like SaraB., these books were the spark that fueled my ongoing interest in history, esspecially history of the 1800’s. They may not be quite the calibre of the Classics but I would not consider them twaddle at all, either.
HTH,
-Miranda
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