Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

 I read 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' a few years ago as part of the 100 Essential Reads, and it's one of the few I have positive memories of. I'd never head of Willa Cather before, and enjoyed the book, and this is more of the same - brave moral people confronting their own failings and making the desert bloom. I think I preferred 'O Pioneers' of the two. I'm just back from a trip to the NHS drop-in centre where they took a ceramic shard out of my foot that had been causing me a lot of pain since tuesday. We think it was from Libby's moneybox. I feel a lot better now it is out and in the urine sample jar the nurse gave it to me in to keep as a souvenir! Libby is off camping with the scouts later today, Fred with the explorers tomorrow, and me and William next week with the cubs.