The Neighbor Dorothy Show...
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! Our Needle & Prose Book Lovers Club has officially begun!! Have you cracked open your book and started reading?
My absolute favorite part of the beginning of this story was the introduction of The Neighbor Dorothy Show! I swear I have fallen in LOVE with Neighbor Dorothy and I want to have a show just like hers!
Here are the discussion questions for this week:
- Do you think The Neighbor Dorothy Show can translate to today's world? If so, how?
- The Smith family talks about being able to stop time. Would you like to have this ability? If you could, when would you freeze time in your own life?
Please comment below to answer the discussion questions for this week and get our book club conversation going!
Assignment for the week:
Please take a picture of yourself reading our first book in the wild and email it to needleandprose@gmail.com to be included in future blog posts.
Until next time...
Angela
I would love to send a picture reading my book but it is an ebook on my cell phone so I think it wouldn’t be very interesting just to see me with my phone in my hand. LOL love the book, and I won’t create any spoilers but it sure going in directions that I never imagined. What fun! It is so great to be reading again.
I just started reading the book. It’s bigger than I thought it would be and that’s ok.
I was a stay at home mom so I would live the neighbor Dorothy show. I think I would stop time now, maybe. My oldest is a senior in HS, then 10th, 8th, and 6th grade. I’m a lunch lady at the jr high so my younger two come to school with me this year. I don’t think I’m ready for what’s ahead yet. Time goes way way too fast but super thankful I was able to stay home with my kids.
Glad to see you back to doing videos!
My favorite line in the book so far, “you put me through a heart attack which I haven’t had time to have yet”. LOL
The first thing I’d like to say is that I am thoroughly enjoying listening to this book. I finished it i’m sure that’s cheating however, I listen as I’m driving back-and-forth to work. It has been a joy I’m sad that it’s over. I think I’m going to load fried green tomatoes onto my Audible so I can continue listening to the author‘s voice. As far as neighbor Dorothy, what a joy to go back in time and listen to the simple pleasures of what’s going on in community and hearing recipes and just the simple life that women had ““ back in the day. Last night, I watched your YouTube with Lori and that fabric with the recipes on it stole my heart. I cannot wait to have that in my stash. I can’t imagine when I’m gonna use it, but it certainly is an heirloom and will be something that is a treasure in my life. I think neighbor Dorothy, we see in a lot of ways and the posts above this one talk about TikTok and all the influencers that we have in our life today certainly neighbor Dorothy was an influencer of her time.
As far as going back in time or stopping time or could we go back? I often think of that. And, oh my gosh, of course we would want to go back. We would not want to be dealing with whatever our trouble is today and if we could take our knowledge from today back with us to a time where we could somehow Circumvent or prevent whatever our woes are from today, we certainly would keep ourselves from harms way. However, time keeps going on and there is no Time Machine although I wish there were. so we just do the best we can every day and take the bumps and lumps along with us and trust in God and know that whatever is going on today. tomorrow will be better and whatever secrets are in our past or whatever secrets others may have or think they have about us and perhaps that’s getting ahead in the books since you know I’ve read or listen to the whole thing anyways happy reading ladies. I hope you’re enjoying the book as much as I did love to you all. Love you Angela. Hope everyone’s enjoying autumn! Plz know that I used the speak to phone to post this, so if my punctuation is not correct please forgive me…thank you
I think we could argue that shows like Neighbor Dorothy have progressed with time. The younger generations seem to get their information from TikTok. My daughter is always trying new recipes she found on there. Plus I will admit that I have looked on there for cleaning suggestions, etc. Neighbor Dorothy is called an Influencer now.
As for stopping time, I wish I could stop some things that come with age, like needing knee replacements, but still let time move forward.