Books Read in May 2011
So after failing to finish any books the last few months (Feb, March, April), I somewhat got my act together and accomplished something!
1) Fort Wayne is 7th on Hitler's List: Indiana Stories by Michael Martone (1990)
This is a collection of short stories about people/events/places associated with Indiana. While all of the stories have some truth in there, they are complete works of fiction as the author explains in his preface. The book gave me mixed feelings, some of the stories were really well written and others fell flat, I think this is due to the writers style of writing... it really only works for short stories but when he can focus in on certain emotions/expressions it really works.
2) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kiplng (1894)
The Classic Childrens story that Disney made a movie of as well. To be honest I had only seen the Disney adaptation and enjoyed the additional depth of the book, though to be honest Disney didn't change too much on this tale. The second half of the book was a variety of other animal central stories that I won't go in detail here with. Overall its a collection of childrens stories, but a classic that stands the test of time.
No comments:
Post a Comment