Puck of Pook's Hill (World Classics, Unabridged) | 
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Okay #RandomClassics friends, here is the schedule for Puck of Pook's Hill!! It seems that this is a collection of short stories and poems. So the main title for each bullet point is the story, and the parenthetical titles are the associated poems. Each story is about 25-30pgs, so 2-3 a week feels doable. We'll see how it goes!!!
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June's book is Puck of Pook's Hill, which should, if nothing else, be a contrast to East of Eden 😂 I have several of Kipling's books on my list because I enjoyed the two Jungle Books and Just So stories so much, but I don't really know anything about this one. I don't have my copy yet, so I'm not sure how many chapters there are, either!! If anyone would like to read along, let me know!!
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September‘s #bookspin was interesting. I bailed on both my #bookspin and my #doublespin. I read 5 books… actually 7, I just didn‘t put the other 2 on the board. I had no chance of getting a bingo so I guess I didn‘t bother 😅
bailedI tried. I thought, “how bad can this new POV character be? I know it‘s Rudyard Kipling writing a Jew, but at least the Jew must be a hero!”
Nope. Grossly anti-Semitic. I bailed at 95%. Parts of this book were really fun, but no.
Instead of the book, have a picture of my cat Gandalf defending his kill.
@TheAromaofBooks This is my #BookSpin for September!
I‘m not sure if “jingoistic” is an appropriate word to describe something that is about British, not American, exceptionalism, but it‘s the word that keeps coming to mind for this book.
pickTricky one to review because it‘s so ‘of it‘s time‘. I don‘t think I‘d give it to a child to read, and dispassionately viewed, the world of Dan and Una with their entire Kentish country estate to roam about in while enacting scenes from A Midsummer Night‘s Dream is hilarious. However, right now it‘s so unrealistically nostalgic that it‘s curiously comforting, so I liked it!
