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Thought I Heard a Rumblin’
The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling Of course the little fellow did not understand the words at first. He paddled and scrambled about by his mother’s side, and learned to scuffle out of the way when his father was fighting with another seal, and the two rolled and roared up and down the slippery rocks. Matkah used Continue reading
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Feed Them on Your Dreams
How can January be almost over already? Fairy Tales Every Child Should KnowEdited by Hamilton Wright Mabie At night the brothers returned from hunting, and the supper was ready. While they sat at table, one of them said, “Well, Benjamin, have you any news?” “Perhaps I have,” he said, “although it seems strange that I, Continue reading
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Mind is Not for Rent
Happy Monday to all who celebrate The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain He did not venture again until he had found it, and by that time the other boys were tired and ready to rest. They gradually wandered apart, dropped into the “dumps,” and fell to gazing longingly across the wide river to where the Continue reading
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Unredeemable
Three weeks and counting A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; Continue reading
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Your Little Soul
This one was a chore the time I really did read it. Little WomenLouisa May Alcott “I never cry unless for some great affliction.” “Such as fellows going to college, hey?” cut in Laurie, with suggestive laugh. “Don’t be a peacock. I only moaned a trifle to keep the girls company.” “Exactly. I say, Jo, Continue reading
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Hollow and Serene
Getting ready for another weekend The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett That made Colin turn and look at her again. “Don’t you?” he said. And then he lay back on his cushion and was still, as if he were thinking. And there was quite a long silence. Perhaps they were both of them thinking strange things Continue reading
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Pieces of Eight
First time repeating an author Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores–the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco. He had found Continue reading
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Mournful and Yet Grand
This time I randomly grabbed books to make a pile, then randomly grabbed one from within, and randomly opened to a page Among the ShroudedAmalie Jahn She raised an eyebrow, her hand on her hip. “Okay, no. Not really,” he admitted. “I knew it,” said Belinda, joining him in front of the machine. “What’s wrong?” Continue reading
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Stage of Clubs and Fists
Halfway through our first month. Black and Gold – Book 2: RelentlessSolomon Carter The drugs, of course. The dealers had used their dependency as a reason for them to attack him. Get this guy. He destroyed all your crack…he stole it from you…bastard. Simon’s eyes tracked the mob until he found the mocking face with Continue reading
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