So at the beginning of August I put this picture up as my August TBR.
I read 3/4 of these, while working 40 hours a week at my job.
Matilda description ~
Matilda is a brilliant and sensitive child, but her parents think of her only as a nuisance. Even before she is five years old, she has read Dickens and Hemingway and still her parents think of her as a pest. So she decides to get back at them. Her platinum-haired mother and car salesman father are no match for her sharp genius, and neither is the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull. And then the child prodigy discovers she has an extraordinary magic power that can save her school and especially the lovely kindergarten teacher, Miss Honey.
The Things They Carried description ~
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim OβBrien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
The Wind in the Willows description~
The Wind in the Willows is a children’s novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley. In 1908 Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Cookham, Berkshire, where he had been brought up and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book doβnamely, as one of the phrases from the book says, “simply messing about in boats”βand wrote down the bed-time stories he had been telling his son Alistair.
Falling Man description~
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.
First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that heβd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.
These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.
But aforementioned, I only read 3 out of 4 of the books I assignment myself in August.
- I read ‘The Cursed Child’ again in August. I am still in awe of the magic !πππππ5/5 stars πππππ
- ‘The Things They Carried’ was incredible, very touching. ππππ4/5 starsππππ
- ‘Matilda‘ as always was wonderful, amazing to reconnect to my childhood through this book! πππππ5/5 stars πππππ
- ‘Falling Man’ was another really insightful read. πππ3/3 starsπππ
Matilda β€ My childhood right there!
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Great wrap up! Matilda is one of my favorite books. I’m glad to see you enjoyed it as well! π
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I love love love Matilda!
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