Writers Book

I read this because it intersects with a couple of my current interests (lesser-known early American authors, especially women, and the experiences of those who settled the west, especially during the period that "the west" was what we now call the midwest). Therefore, it kept coming up in other works, including Virgin Lands and A Jury of Her Peers, among those listed here.

The book itself was written in the 1830s and is basically the experiences of a fictional narrator from the East (based on the author) in a town in Michigan (the town she and her husband actually founded in 1837, though it and the characters are portrayed here under a fictional name, which people soon saw through, causing much fuss and offense). There's not really much of a story, but if you are interested in the topic at all (or the development of American writing), it is interesting for those reasons and was always enjoyable to pick up and read for a little while at a time, though never super-engrossing.