I'm glad that I got to listen to the audiobook of "Prairie Fires."

I did find getting to know more about the contrasts between the creators and their works to be worthwhile, scintillating, and all that.

"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33911349-prairie-fires

There really is something about "The Little House on the Prairie" books that deeply affects many of the people who read them. A love of nature really sings in those stories, in words and in pictures. 

Even "The First Four Years" book is very moving. I was surprised one day when tears came to my eyes just by thinking about the part of the book where their house burns down. 

There's something about the books that seems bigger than any of the intellectual arguments about them.

So I wish that there had been more curiosity than judgment about the women in the tone of the text, and maybe that's partly because I was listening to the audiobook version. I will admit sometimes I didn't like the judgmental tone. It just grated on me sometimes.

I usually read my books instead of listening to them, so maybe I was forced to go through stuff. I might have been skimming through otherwise.

I don't know why, but I feel like taking a more curious tone towards them would be more fun. Because for some reason, with them, my curiosity is surpassing whatever else I might feel. I'm just so curious. I mean, maybe I don't need to figure it out, but I'm just really curious why they felt they needed to be the way they were sometimes, and yet they still created those books that are touching so many people. 

I feel grateful that they were here on this planet and left us the books.

Anyways, maybe it's a good lesson!