Tilting at Windmills
Book and Travel Reviews
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum
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The movie was apparently shockingly true-to-form, although I will note that Dorothy's slippers were silver in the book and not ruby. (S...
Friday, July 23, 2010
Bambi - Marjorie Benton Cooke
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Came recommended for my Kindle. Not bad actually - very feminist and inspiring, if a bit thin. A young girl takes control of her destiny, u...
Monday, July 19, 2010
The Story of Dr. Doolittle - Hugh Lofting
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This randomly came up on my recommended reading list from Amazon. Apparently Swiss Family Robinson was not a good indicator of my interests...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Lolita- Vladamir Nabakov
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I never had any desire to read this novel because of the subject matter (pedophilia isn't my thing and I avoid Lifetime because I don...
Monday, June 21, 2010
The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
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The War of the Worlds is a turn-of-the-century (the LAST century) science fiction novel about an invasion of Earth by Mars because Mars had ...
Monday, June 14, 2010
Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
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As anyone who reads this blog is already aware of, I'm not one for morality tales. I was hoping this would be an adventure flick unlike ...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
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One of the interesting things about Jules Verne is that he makes is protagonists inherently unlikable. Perhaps it is to make them more huma...
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