Komal’s Reviews > A Land Remembered > Status Update

coming across a sign for arcadia right after frog talks about in the book I was so shook it’s so fun reading this book and driving thru fl… there’s been so many other times I drove past something they just talked about like the phosphorous company and omg the scene where the trader tells them about miami… chills

listening to this book while driving through four hours of Florida backwoods was soooo fun it made my drive so much more bearable and I LOVED all the mentions of Floridian towns like I was trying to figure out where punta rasa would be lol

omg I was so happy for him getting a horse and then he came back to this.. i really love the description and how u can feel the fight for survival in this time period. ppl really had so many skills to fend for themselves and relied on luck to get them by a lot too

so far its good i love the description in chapter 2 bc i feel like i can see tobias and how like the desparation and lack of everything leads the family to make the decisions they do. it also is making me disappointed i cant garden like growing food is a fundamentally human thing i need to learn

ok so our fourth grade teacher read us this book and i decided to reread it bc i remember we were all OBSESSED with it and first of all, how on earth were we smart enough for this as 8 yr olds the writing is pretty adult