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FROM: Richards Free Library <[removed]@newport.lib.nh.us>
REC'D: 1/11/02, 10:12 AM

I am helping someone put together a list of readings on living the
simple life. We have lots of great memoirs and how-tos, but we would
like to add some fiction. We are looking for stories, poems and novels
for children and adults that describe the quest for a quality way of
life or a simpler way of life. We want realistic rather than
romanticized fiction like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Thank you.
Andrea Thorpe

FROM: Sue Johnson <[removed]@ccl.charleston.lib.sc.us>
REC'D: 1/11/02, 10:22 AM

Jim the Boy by Tony Early

At 11:05 AM 1/11/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I am helping someone put together a list of readings on living the
>simple life. We have lots of great memoirs and how-tos, but we would
>like to add some fiction. We are looking for stories, poems and novels
>for children and adults that describe the quest for a quality way of
>life or a simpler way of life. We want realistic rather than
>romanticized fiction like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
>Thank you.
>Andrea Thorpe
>
>
>......................................................................
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FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/11/02, 10:32 AM

One possibility that comes to my mind is Wendell Berry's fiction and
poetry. Berry writes eloquently about the intersection of modern culture
and rural life. His characters' lives are not necessarily simpler, but are
in many was closer to what Berry sees as the essentials of life. He does
not romanticize rural life, but does make the arguement that there is much
good in it that is being lost to modernization.

Barry

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Richards Free Library wrote:

> I am helping someone put together a list of readings on living the
> simple life. We have lots of great memoirs and how-tos, but we would
> like to add some fiction. We are looking for stories, poems and novels
> for children and adults that describe the quest for a quality way of
> life or a simpler way of life. We want realistic rather than
> romanticized fiction like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
> Thank you.
> Andrea Thorpe
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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FROM: "Linda Lundquist" <[removed]@prodigy.net>
REC'D: 1/11/02, 2:38 PM

Gary Paulsen comes to mind. Along with survival books
like "The River," consider an early one of his
called "Beat the System: A Survival Guide" (Pinnacle,
1982). After filing for bankrupcy in California,
Paulsen and his wife moved to the North Woods of
Minnesota and literally lived off the land.

Also, "My Side of the Mountain," by Jean Craighead
George. A young boy relates his adventures during the
year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains
including his struggle for survival, his dependence on
nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate
realization that he needs human companionship.

HTH,

Linda Lundquist
Youth Services Librarian
Bartlett Public Library
800 S. Bartlett Rd.
Bartlett, IL 60103


>Subject: Simple Living Fiction
>From: "Richards Free Library" <[removed]@newport.lib.nh.us>
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:05:50 -0500
>
>I am helping someone put together a list of readings
on living the
>simple life. We have lots of great memoirs and how-
tos, but we would
>like to add some fiction. We are looking for stories,
poems and novels
>for children and adults that describe the quest for a
quality way of
>life or a simpler way of life. We want realistic
rather than
>romanticized fiction like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
>Thank you.
>Andrea Thorpe
>

FROM: "Margaret Dunn Library" <[removed]@caledon.library.on.ca>
REC'D: 1/12/02, 10:41 AM

What about the series from Dan Needles : Letters from Wingfield Farms. I
know this is Canadian but it is very funny. A stockbroker moves into the
country to live the quiet life and has a series of misadventures. Ther thing
is I can see these things happening to a city person. ( I have only been
farming for 23 years and remember the way my family had to prove themselves)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richards Free Library" <[removed]@newport.lib.nh.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:05 AM
Subject: Simple Living Fiction


> I am helping someone put together a list of readings on living the
> simple life. We have lots of great memoirs and how-tos, but we would
> like to add some fiction. We are looking for stories, poems and novels
> for children and adults that describe the quest for a quality way of
> life or a simpler way of life. We want realistic rather than
> romanticized fiction like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
> Thank you.
> Andrea Thorpe
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: "Janice Doxtator" <[removed]@fibernetcc.com>
REC'D: 1/12/02, 12:42 PM

One of the continuing themes in Dana Stabenow's mystery series featuring
Kate Shugak concerns her simple life in Alaska. Descriptions of her cabin
and living conditions show how carefully she has assembled only those things
essential to her. Much of the conflict in the books comes from her being
summoned from her 'simple life' to deal with some very complicated issues.
Jan Doxtator
Stevens Point, WI

FROM: julie connoley <[removed]@dpls.lib.or.us>
REC'D: 1/14/02, 2:36 PM

Try Anne Tyler's Ladder of Years - a wife simply walks away from her family
and leads a very austere life (everything she has fits into a cardboard
box)....

-----Original Message-----
From: Richards Free Library [[removed]@newport.lib.nh.us]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:06 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Simple Living Fiction


I am helping someone put together a list of readings on living the
simple life. We have lots of great memoirs and how-tos, but we would
like to add some fiction. We are looking for stories, poems and novels
for children and adults that describe the quest for a quality way of
life or a simpler way of life. We want realistic rather than
romanticized fiction like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Thank you.
Andrea Thorpe

FROM: Bradley A Scott <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 1/16/02, 1:00 AM

If you haven't done so already, you should troll through the recent
thread on "Books about Farms/Farmlife/Woods set in Maine".
(http://www.webrary.org/maillist/msg/2001/11/Re.BooksaboutFarms.Farmli.ht
ml) I recall seeing some good novels of this type in that thread, not
all of which were specific to Maine.

Beyond that, Judith Moffett's "Time like an ever-rolling stream" comes to
mind. It's science fiction, set in a near future in which human beings
have been required, by an advanced alien race, to rediscover a simpler,
sustainable way of life or be eradicated in order to preserve the
viability of the planet. One of the characters is a back-to-the-land
mentor who seems to be modelled after Wendell Berry.

Bradley A. Scott
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FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@adelphia.net>
REC'D: 1/16/02, 7:00 AM

BTW, the Rural Living booklist is updated regularly at
http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/bkrural.htm
(last update was 1/9/02)

~ Molly Wms.
--
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us
[removed]@adelphia.net


Bradley A Scott wrote:

> If you haven't done so already, you should troll through the recent
> thread on "Books about Farms/Farmlife/Woods set in Maine".
> (http://www.webrary.org/maillist/msg/2001/11/Re.BooksaboutFarms.Farmli.ht
> ml) I recall seeing some good novels of this type in that thread, not
> all of which were specific to Maine.

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