First off let me say that working on this last
review is a sad experience for our family, it's the last review that we are
doing for The Old Schoolhouse Review Crew. I will give an update on our reasons
for retiring from the Review Crew in another post. Nothing bad, just life
changes for us.
Now on to the review of At Home In Dogwood Mudhole: Volume One,
Nothing That Eats, by Franklin Sanders. I got the softcover version that
retails for $22.95, some of the other TOS Review Crew received the Kindle
version that retails for $16.95. The age range for this book would be teen-adult.
I started reading the book and just could not get
into it. LOL...by a long shot. So I handed it off to the homeschool husband and
to the homeschool young man. They both loved it.
The book is set from 1995-2002, written by
Franklin Sanders owner of the Moneychanger, a gold and silver bouillon seller.
The book is a collection of monthly newsletters for the Moneychanger.
The guys thought the book was kinda like a snapshot of all the little adventures that they had setting up their farmstead. It was written like a journal, seemed like the author picked a topic and just started writing about it. Seemed like a grouping of letters written and then published in a book.
The guys thought the book was kinda like a snapshot of all the little adventures that they had setting up their farmstead. It was written like a journal, seemed like the author picked a topic and just started writing about it. Seemed like a grouping of letters written and then published in a book.
Homeschool husband is pretty cheap so he would
not have spent $22.95 on the book, but he would have checked it out for free
from the library. He did admit that he got $22.95 in entertainment value from
reading the book. It was so good that he took it to work everyday to read on break.
Alright ladies start thinking about
getting your hubby this as a Christmas gift!
My homeschool husband who went to college for
English liked the way that he phrased stuff (I think that this is the reason I
did not like the book). Just flipping through the table of contents you come
across interesting chapter titles such as "Combustion Engines Are The Work
Of The Devil", "One Disaster At A Time" (here homeschooling
husband thought he had coined that last term!) LOL and "Demon Cow".
Homeschool husband says "They were Y2K
preppers, They were like "I hope things don't go bad, but we will prepare
just in case." Their extra food did not go to waste, they fed it to the
pigs (stinky rice story that GROSSED me out when homeschool husband and young
man described it. They wanted to get back to the land and the farm, they had
been away from it all for about two generations. So they had made a lot of
mistakes, killed a lot of animals (we have experience in this, we had lost
about a dozen meat birds by accident. It happens to the best of us!). Husband
thought that family was religious conservatives and they help found a church
that had been meeting during the book. Homeschool husband loved the MRE's mixed
with rice, as the author seemed to be a chef for pigs. lol.
Being a Southerner and a Civil War history buff,
it’s obvious that his sympathies lie with the south in general. His story
telling was able to open a window into his thought and feelings surrounding
being a southerner.
The homeschool young man says "I like the
chapter 'Shootout at Elmwood'."
Being that my son is a Civil War Re-enactor he
was THRILLED to read that the author and members of the Sanders family are also
Civil War Re-enactors. Although the author and his family are Confederates, the
homeschool young man will not hold that against them :O) Homeschool young man also liked that fact that the author mentioned hotels and restaurants that he liked in the book, along with phone and addresses.
The Sanders family also does cemetery walks with
Franklin Sanders acting General Nathan Bedford Forrest. A Lieutenant general in
the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (July 13, 1821 – October 29,
1877). Yet another plus from the homeschooling husband too!
Things my guys were not thrilled with was
the IRS scandal and the fact that the author ended up in jail a few times.
If you like reading At Home In Dogwood Mudhole, volume one,
Nothing That Eats, then you might like volume two Best Thing We Ever Did and volume 3 has yet to be finished but is called The Sage Of Dogwood Mudhole also
by Franklin Sanders. There is a free shipping code just for TOS readers! Enter
in TOSFREE in the discount field when ordering. How great is that??
So all in all my guys thought that At Home In Dogwood Mudhole would make a great birthday or Christmas gift of the man in your life. I am sure that some ladies might enjoy the read, but I sure did not.
Come see what my fellow TOS Crew Reviews thought of the book.
So all in all my guys thought that At Home In Dogwood Mudhole would make a great birthday or Christmas gift of the man in your life. I am sure that some ladies might enjoy the read, but I sure did not.
Come see what my fellow TOS Crew Reviews thought of the book.
