Having never read this as a child I came across this book on Amazon and decided it was time I acquainted myself with The Little Prince. I am now very glad that I met him. This is a book that I think can be read by anyone of any age, and people will take different things away based upon their age and experience of life. It can be read as a simple story of an explorer who meets a young boy in the desert and […]
Through the eyes of a mouse
Having just finished a non-fiction work about evolution, I decided to bring it down a notch and read something very different, but still somewhat related. Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World is a lovely children’s book about a few days in the life of a white-footed mouse (whom we call Whitefoot, since we don’t know her real name in Mouse language). Author Wendell Berry writes with an elegant simplicity that is sweet without being syrupy. Of the heroine, he writes, “In comparison […]
Here kitty, kitty
3.5 Stars. My friend and I are doing a reading challenge this year and one of the challenges is to read a book with a cat on the cover. I thought it would be difficult to find a book that had a cat on the cover AND was one I wanted to read. Cats are great, I have one myself, but books with cat covers? Not usually my cup of tea. I can’t remember where I heard about Lost Cat, but it turned out this […]
Not at all what I expected. Sadface forever :(
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Like, there should be a GIF of Will Ferrell as Mugatu making that face with his big hair right here in this review, only I’m too upset to actually find and put it here. And I feel like the ridiculousness of that image would sort of undercut how, I don’t know . . . upset? I was while reading this book. I even read all of Pat’s warnings: on his website, in the forward to the book, on […]