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Probable the best of the older-Laura books. The crazy landlady! The difficult students! And that hottie Almanzo.

This is the book I read the night before I got married ten years ago. The reason for this? I think that "These Happy Golden Years" is the first book that I ever read in which a courtship and marriage was described in any detail - I was probably 8 or 9 on first reading of it. It seemed eminently suitable to read before my own marriage.

The book makes me happy inside, the gentle way that Laura and Almanzo become a couple and go out on rides together. Almanzo's persistence in courting Laura, and the fact that he collected her every week in freezing winter weather from the first school she taught is beautiful. The times spent with friends and family, and happy teaching experiences for Laura are also lovely to read. She's a woman who knows she's loved and loves back wholeheartedly.

But the book is also bittersweet. It's the last proper Little House book ("The First Four Years" doesn't count as far as I'm concerned!) and everyone is growing up or growing old and it's that moment of change from child/teen to adult, dependence to independence that makes it so poignant.

I always like to read THIS book after reading 'The Long Winter', even if it does not keep the correct order- this just seems like the proper continuation of where 'Winter' leaves off. I like this one because it tells the story of Laura and Almanzo's courtship, beginning when she is 15 and ending with their marriage when she is 18. As a kid, it always blew my mind that they had never ever even kissed until they were ENGAGED! Hell, I was reading this at 10 or 11, and *I* had kissed boys by then! This is a more 'grown up' book compared to some of the others, dealing with finances, laws of settler's claims and things such as that. I always loved that Laura became a teacher (I had always wanted to be a teacher, and so I am) but she taught at the age of 15!! Crazy. It is a great read, and a great continuation of the series. I like it 3rd best overall, I would say, of the original 9 books. --Jen from Quebec :0)

I can’t believe I didn’t write a review for this...but I’m actually quite happy I didn’t, because now that I’m married I think I love it even more.

This book is very similar to the Anne of green gables series in a lot of ways. It’s the same time period, it’s the same age group. But it’s so much more REAL than Anne’s books. Laura is scrappy. She’s smart. And she’s no nonsense.

Also GO LAURA for telling Almanzo to leave Nellie alone if he wanted to date her. I’m also delighted at Laura refusing to say « obey » in her wedding vows.

It’s interesting because Laura isn’t really a suffragette, she just wants to be self sufficient and take care of herself. The whole horse team metaphor is super fitting in a lot of ways, and I love that Almanzo is perfect for her. He’s smart and charming and quiet, and not apt to make a big fuss of anything.

Welll, I just realized I hadn't reviewed this yet, so here goes!

This may have been my favorite book in the series. I went into it with low expectations, but, man, was it great! Almanzo is such a gentleman! He comes to get her even when there's nothing in it for him! And the sleigh rides and buggy rides!! *happy squeal* And that buggy ride with Nellie :D Sometimes their courtship seemed awkward, especially because of the age difference, but overall it was sweet and they were such great friends!

I love how Laura is earning money to help her family!! Although, I'm pretty sure even if I hadn't complained about the meanness of Mrs. Brewster, her attempting to kill her husband would have gotten me out of there reaaal quick!

I also loved the horses! No one could handle them except Manly and then Laura comes along and just yessss!

So yes, I loved this book. Yes, yes, yes!

These Happy Golden Years is the last "real" book in the Little House series. There is another, much shorter, book afterward (The First Four Years) that was published from Laura Ingalls Wilder's notes and outlines, but this is the last she wrote. It ranks a very close second in my most favorite books ever.

It's interesting that my favorite two books are the first and the last in the series. In the first, Laura is a child. 6 or 7 years old. In the last, she's a "grown up," around 18 years old. There is quite a difference in the girl Laura and the woman Laura, and part of what I like about the book is looking back on how she used to be and comparing what she is in this book. I suppose that's what parents probably feel, but, whatever.

This is also the book where Laura falls in love, and probably why I love it so much. Almanzo is such a gentleman to her, and I love that this plain, brunette, stocky girl isn't destined to be a spinster (again,identification!) She may not be rich, or know how to flirt, or really even acknowledge their courtship, but Almanzo (who comes across to me as handsome and COOL) is still in love with her, and still asks her to marry him. Gah. As a 9 year old girl, this was the height of romance. The sleigh rides, and buggy rides, and Almanzo slipping her ring on her finger (not a diamond, since this is pre- Victorian engagement) during a buggy ride, and then the combs at christmas and showing up Christmas Eve! Gah! Old fashioned romance, I'm telling you.

I prefer to pretend their story ends at the end of These Happy Golden Years. I've since learned about the hardships Laura and Almanzo faced in their life together, and it really depresses me. They did not have an easy life. But if I pretend that this is the end, it's such a hopeful story. The wedding is over, they go back to their very own Little House that Almanzo built by himself, with a sheepdog, and the horses that started the whole courtship pulling the buggy. They have left over wedding food, and wedding cake, and sit on the front porch watching the twilight. Magic. Anything could happen.

Okay, emotional rant coming - you've been warned. Once again I'm stone-cold certain that my takeaway from this book would positively bewilder the daylights out of Mrs. Wilder, but I guess that's the way it goes - when you write a book, people can only read it through the lens of their personal experiences & viewpoints, & if you're lucky enough to write a book that continues to endure long past when you wrote it, then they're looking through the additional lens of a world that's very, very changed from the one you knew when writing. Overall, I enjoyed this somewhat more than the other books in the series, but the thing that will stay with me the longest is, once again, just how little independence, choice, & self-determination American women of this time & place had. And although that's true of everyone here (Laura seriously hates teaching school but it's one of roughly three things a "respectable" woman can do to earn so she's stuck because patriarchal societal norm &$@*#), this book features one of the most shockingly horrible examples I've read of just how lacking in autonomy women of this time were, & how it sometimes affected them - in a character mentioned in a couple of chapters & then not heard of again, in a tone that rings as definitely judgmental. When young Laura (technically too young! WTF, Ingalls parents!?) goes to teach her first school, she boards with the Brewster family & lives in fear of the always-sullen, frequently quarrelsome, extremely unwelcoming & definitely slatternly Mrs. Brewster. she makes no attempt to hide her hostility to Laura, & is so very desperately unhappy in her home, her life, & possibly her marriage that she goes silent, has screaming fits, & finally threatens her husband one night with a carving knife as he lays in bed - all because she hates her situation & wants to go "back home to the East." All right, Laura is 15, so I get that witnessing her host having his life threatened by his enraged & obviously unwell weapon-wielding wife must have been terrifying. I'll give her that. But. I'm reading through the double lenses of my experiences & knowledge, & the very different times in which I live, & I had to put the book down for a while because of how heartbroken I was for Mrs. Brewster. Her husband & son also, but mainly her. Who knows the ins & outs here? Did she love her husband? Did she even want to be married, or was marriage & motherhood the one of the three options she took that were open to her, whereas men of the time could decide to do so much more? Was she an extrovert who loved her community & home but had no say in the matter & no choice but to go when her husband decided to pack up & move to the absolute back end of South Dakota, staking a claim that would leave them isolated from everyone except each other, miles away from the next humans? Did the barrenness of the land, the unbelievable harshness of the weather, the constant, neverending work, & the struggle just to make ends meet wear her down until she just couldn't take it any more? Had she had mental or emotional problems before that went completely untreated because they didn't exist in the 1880's? It absolutely kills me to think of this desperate, excruciatingly unhappy woman & how her life must have been, & even though I know how ignorant people of the day were, the disapproval, disgust, & inherent judgment present in the phrasing of Laura's thoughts made me absolutely furious with her. All I can do, I suppose, is desperately hope that this poor sick woman managed to get to a better place where she could be, if not happy, then at least not so tormented, that adults reading this with kids use the plight of Mrs. Brewster to discuss the very real need for true equality & autonomy for everyone as well as what compassion looks like & how mental illness needs to be spoken out about, treated, & never stigmatized - & mainly, of course, get down on bended knees & show the fierce, fierce gratitude I have that, both as a woman & as someone who lives with depression & anxiety, I'm alive here & now. It's not perfect yet by any means, but I feel without doubt that Mrs. Brewster would have thought it a paradise of enlightenment. *Deep breath, mic drop*

<3 So sweet

This is the loveliest of all the Little House books in my opinion. The descriptions are breathtaking, and there’s a wistfulness in this book that made me long for eternity. Even in the happiest of moments or on the most beautiful days, there was a tinge of sorrow at the way things change. I find this to be true to my own reality, and this awakened afresh the desire to experience life with no bittersweet emotions and caused me to long for the day when all is as it should be and will forever remain that way. Such a beautiful way to wrap up this wonderful series. And please listen to the audio—hearing the fiddle and the songs sung took this to the next level!

I think this might be my favorite in the series. The romance between Almanzo and Laura was so sweet! And I loved following Laura as she trained to be a teacher. Also, my heart pounded a little faster in the scene where the wife in the couple who she boards with is standing over her husband in the middle of the night with a kitchen knife. EEEESH!

এই সিরিজের প্রতিটা বই ধারাবাহিকভাবে ভালো লেগেছে। এটাও তার ব্যতিক্রম হয়নি। সুন্দর ছিমছাম গল্প। পড়ার পরেও মনের মধ্যে আনাগোনা করতে থাকে বহুক্ষণ।