Really well-woven tale incorporating semi-fantastic elements with a homey realistic feel that warms all of Cleary's writing.
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Latin teacher, TTRPG player, FOSS fan, dad.
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Jonathan Harmon finished reading The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (An Avon Camelot book)
A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of …
Jonathan Harmon reviewed Gilgamesh by Sophus Helle
Too many lacunae
4 stars
I respect the editor's choice to preserve the lacunae, indicating places where the record is/was incomplete, but there were so many it distracted from the narrative.
Jonathan Harmon started reading The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (An Avon Camelot book)
A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of …
Reading this with my son at bedtime.
Jonathan Harmon wants to read The Bladed Faith by David Dalglish (The Vagrant Gods, #1)
Cyrus was only fourteen years old when his gods were slain, his country invaded, and …
Saw this at the library and thought it looked cool.
Jonathan Harmon started reading The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro
The Aeneid ( ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aenē̆is [ae̯ˈneːɪs] or [ˈae̯neɪs]) is a Latin epic poem, written …
Conducting an English reading of this with some AP Latin students. Never read the Fagles translation and I am loving it so far.
Jonathan Harmon started reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
The opening chapter in an epic fantasy masterpiece....Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody …
This book is very military so far. I can handle quickly shifting viewpoints and not understanding exactly what's going on. But if the whole book is just soldiers in armies in war, I may look elsewhere.