tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3468175698020242836.post2420527988937868378..comments2023-10-23T07:51:42.040-07:00Comments on Life, Bugs and Lots of Love: James Fennimore Cooper Wrap-up☼Shannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10389653430657571073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3468175698020242836.post-15126332830558831702015-06-28T13:16:32.104-07:002015-06-28T13:16:32.104-07:00At long last I finished reading The Last of the Mo...At long last I finished reading The Last of the Mohicans. It wasn't a book I could read a lot of at a time, but I did enjoy it. As always with these classic books, I learned many new words! As Shanna mentioned, there were many humorous moments, particularly when the Scout was talking about 'the gentle or the tender ones'. Notwithstanding how often it was mentioned how gentle and tender the females in the story were (and how small their feet!), they were also commended for their courage and fortitude and general strength of character. <br />For this month, I read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I greatly enjoyed it, (partly because it was so short!) but was also somewhat surprised. All the adaptations and books and movies based on (or at least derived from) the short story had me believing it would be a darker tale, while in fact it is more of a humorous one. Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12563763712164312340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3468175698020242836.post-5292055066343584092015-06-11T17:38:37.033-07:002015-06-11T17:38:37.033-07:00I just finished reading Rip Van Winkle by this mon...I just finished reading Rip Van Winkle by this month's author, Washington Irving. It's a short story which I was able to print off the internet. I knew generally what it was about but had never actually read it. A nice, short, read with some early US history thrown in, so definitely worth the time to broaden my horizons.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09637996063292613966noreply@blogger.com