While I'm not sure that this story was necessarily intended to promote purity before marriage, it portrays it beautifully and as something most desirable and worthy. She must go untouched by other men, unsullied, absolutely clean." She must go as God intended that every woman should go to the man she loves. She must go with ears that had not been sullied with vulgarity. "When she went to John Guido and said, 'I have come back to you,' as she had promised, she must go with lips that no other boy's kisses had touched. It's a beautiful story of redemption, a parent's love and remaining true, and pure, for that special someone. This is one of Gene Stratton-Porter's shorter novels but one that shouldn't be overlooked. Well, I have one more word, haven’t they ever heard of kissing disease? Well, this was just a kissing book, and that is all I have to say about it. I used to tell people that if there was any sex, it was just kisses, and maybe only at the end of the book. Gene Stratton-Porter books always had romance in them, but mostly I considered them nature books. Thinking that it was a book on gardening, a nature book, I gave it to a friend and had purchased the audio, which only made it more sickening sweet. I was glad that it was a short story, but I wish I had my $50 back. Who wouldn’t fall in love with this sweet five year old? IN fact, the entire book is filled with such sweetness, thick syrupy sweetness. The teenage boy and the little girl kiss each other over and over in fact, this entire book is filled with kisses, kisses that Amaryllis gets from parents, the boy’s father, everyone. Maybe times have changed, and that is why I find it creepy. This was rather creepy, although I knew it wasn’t meant to me. How do you fall in love with a five year old girl. Can kids that young fall in love and even though they never see each other until Amaryllis is 18, stay in love. She meets a teenage boy at his home in the woods. A five year old girl runs away from home because her mother and father do not love her she was only right about the mother. I decided to read it, and I decided to finish it only because I had paid so much for it. I loved Gene Stratton-Porter books when I was a teenager, but I had never read this one, so a few years ago when I was buying old Porter books, I found this book, $50. Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented. Although there is evidence that her first book was "Strike at Shane's", which was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day.īorn Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. She was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company.
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