Yes, I've been reading Orwell's Animal Farm. Was it only yesterday I was saying I didn't like analogies? A day is a long time in blogging ... perhaps it is only religious analogies I am not fond of, because I loved this political one. I'm ashamed to say I had never read this. It's beautifully written, with clarity and precision, telling the sad tale of a well-intentioned revolution gone wrong after having been hijacked by an ambitious and completely ruthless character. He's the source of the slogan, "All animals are created equal but some are more equal than others". This totalitarian state is quite horrifying, as is the ending where the animals are told that it's now "Four legs good, two legs better". The concluding images are creepy and horrible. This is only 100 pages and well worth reading. I still had time to read Heat and the Sun, so I think I lived up to my eclectic aims!
Day 168; Book 167
'I don't want to feel like I'm abandoning her': A dad's move sparks son's
dilemma about taking their sweet senior cat to a new environment with
roommates or leaving her in her home with a new furever family
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This son is facing a tough decision about the family cat who's lived with
his dad for over 12 years. With his father moving overseas and unable to
take h...
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Animal Farm is good reading. I should re-read it sometime soon.
ReplyDeleteloved it too! i just added your blog to mine, if you don't mind. Keep up the one book a day...don't know how you do it...
ReplyDeleteYes, I can't believe I had never read it before now!
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