In High School English class a couple of shorter books were very popular for book reports. I remember hearing SOOOO MANY oral book reports on The Old Man and The Sea
I heard about these books sooo many times, I never needed to read them myself at the time, and I didn’t until years later.
But when Call of the Wild was recently featured as a “literary cameo” in a show I was hooked on, I decided to read this book for myself, finally.
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And I now have to admit that these classmates who were being efficient were still getting quality reading in fewer pages than I might have been!
is an epic story spanning two continents and several lifetimes.
though I did find him an amusing character. Here’s a sampling of Ove:
, I didn’t expect to find myself in a circus during a WWII read.
, especially since the cover of this newer book has a train and instead of a circus, The Orphan Tale by Pam Jenoff is set in WWII Europe.
slowly, savoring it.
is set a century before the Grantham family, so many of the themes of class are even more stringent.
, currently a bestseller and a hot item with a long waiting list at any public library is certainly a serious reflection on his growing up a “hillbilly,” and it does express grief for his grandparents, both for whom I cried real tears while reading this book.
. Did you know research shows trees behave like human families and human communities? Tree parents live with their children, communicating and supporting them. The trees in a undisturbed forest also function socially, helping the sick and warning each other of dangers.