Mila

couldn´t stop until i was finished. reading like a poem. perfect rythm of words.

travelog before instagram and facebook were invented.

sudden comparisons with Scotland were funny.

name is misleading - only third part of book is about Donner Party. although it was not a disappointment -the story of a girl growing up without her parents in 1890s california. fascinating slice of life.

(also from this book I learned that Pony express was real Pony express. Fascinating. Real ponies.)

ending was a little bit unexpected.
interesting that when the woman went crazy she turned to religion. I wonder if it was intentional.

Dickensian humor and language without Dickens' comforting happy end.