Ok, second attempt at a review after the damn interwebs ate my last one. Luckily I’m composing this one offline first.To me Kenneth Grahame’s _The Wind in the Willows_ is a particularly fine novel. It’s a children’s story and normally that would get my back up. I’m generally not a big fan of childre...
Whilst I'm not a big fan of this book per se (it's too dated, and the twee quasi homo subtext can grate), I have such happy memories of reading it with my son, when he was little. We would have endless picnics (imaginary and for real), role-playing various characters... but now he's a strapping 15 y...
I know it's a classic, but I was disappointed. Sure it's cute, but only slightly, and I got so incredibly annoyed with Toad. I can't even say that it's because I was too old for the book, because I first tried reading it as a tween and found it too boring to finish. How did this ever become a classi...
This book was similar to "Watership Down" to me, but more of the character development is by animal, not by individual. Nevertheless, the book is a warm tale, and a real classic. Friendships are made, tested, and remain. Just like C.S. Lewis did, I love to read this book when I'm at home sick in ...
Yet another classic of children's literature that I didn't discover until adulthood. But this one, I really liked. It inhabits that fictional Edwardian period I love so much, with many of the modern conveniences, and none of the annoyances. Also, in British literature, as in American film and TV,...
I never had the opportunity to read Wind in the Willows as a child and it is great to finally get to read this book as an adult, I am not entirely sure I would have enjoyed this as an 8-10 year old girl as the language is a little stiff and proper for a child and also for the fact there are no gir...
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