Please link your reviews for your Classic About an Animal or With an Animal in the Title here. This is only for the Classic About an Animal or Animal in the Title category. The animal can be real, imaginary, or metaphorical. If the animal is not obvious, please clarify in your post.
If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and/or the title of the book in your link, like this: "Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (To Kill a Mockingbird)."
The Wings of the Dove by Henry Miller http://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-wings-of-dove-by-henry-james-76.html
ReplyDeleteJust finished "Animal Farm" - packs every bit as much of a wallop as "1984" in about 1/3 the pagecount.
ReplyDeleteJust finished Jungle Book. Not at all what I expected.
ReplyDeleteJust finished reading Animal Farm again. I read it when I was young and didn't fully grasp the meaning of this awesome book until now. I definitely need to re-read "1984" now.
ReplyDeleteLord of the Flies by Wm Golding It is truly disturbing to believe that a group of boys could actually sink to this level of depravity. At the very least Jack and Roger should be sent to separate juvenile delinquent facilities for as long as possible. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31652839-marilyn?shelf=books-and-chocolates-challenge-2017
ReplyDeleteJust added my review of The Planet of the Apes, by Boulle. https://silviacachia.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/planet-of-the-apes-a-book-review/
ReplyDeleteJust added my review of Animal Farm. Did not read this in high school like seemingly everyone else. Probably would have liked it more way, way back then.
ReplyDeleteMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka - In Metamorphosis and young man awakes one morning to discover that he is a man-sized insect, likely a beetle by the description. It is a truly odd story. The other stories (some just essays and a few merely paragraphs) were in most cases rambling nonsense. It was a short book, but it took a very long time to read because I just did NOT like it.
ReplyDeleteOld Yeller is clearly a book for kids, who might even be able to guess what's coming.
ReplyDeleteThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling - Mowgli escapes the tiger Shere Khan to be named and raised by a pack of wolves. His teachers are Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther. They along with Kaa the python protect him and rescue him from the monkeys. Also, included in this volume is Rikki-tikki-tavi, the mongoose, who saved his family and the birds and frogs of the garden from a family of cobras. There are also stories about seals, elephants, and more. Kipling spent years in India and set many of his stories there. This is perhaps his best known book. Delightful. Wonderful children's book that adults will also enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI read The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, and sadly I'm not very impressed.
ReplyDeleteMine is 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Classic Holmes and Watson story with a dark setting and very nasty beast. Formulaic detective story, but that was what fans wanted.
ReplyDeleteI read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Maybe not a book about an animal, or maybe just that: a behavioral study of the animal called Man.
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Chicken Every Sunday is not really about an animal, unless you count the cooked variety, but it's a charming book.
ReplyDeleteThe Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling - More stories about Mowgli and his friends, but they are getting older and their lives are changing.
ReplyDeleteWind the Willows definitely has its share of fun animal characters.
ReplyDeleteJust linked 'My family & Other Animals' by Gerald Durrell.
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Thanks, Karen.
I really recommend this as a book to read on a very long plane flight. It certainly made the time pass quickly since I found it engrossing, suspense-filled and had a nice almost feminist ending.
ReplyDeleteI read Wind in the Willows for the first time.
ReplyDeleteI read Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck's American travelogue, and loved it.
ReplyDeleteI also read Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
ReplyDeleteI re-read Charlotte's Web with my son.
ReplyDeleteI read Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken (published in 1966, so just under the 50-year mark). I loved Wolves of Willoughby Chase as a kid, and had no idea this book existed -- so I was delighted to find this in a used bookstore. There's even a character from "Wolves" who makes a reappearance! It's cheesy but a lot of fun.
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