DAY 28: Last Book You Read

I’ve been trying to lessen my current mountain of unread books during the holidays; after all, once I get back into the swing of uni, it is difficult to find the time to curl up with a good book and simply read, you know? (“The horror!”, indeed.) Instead of reading what I want to read, I find myself scrolling through e-reserves and flipping through text-books. I must also read the prescribed texts for my English classes, but those can be hit-and-miss; will they be good books, or won’t they? (This semester, I’m taking a Children’s Literature and Fantasy course, so the books should be rather pleasant! Hooray!)

My point is, dear reader, that with all the books I’ve been reading… I actually can’t remember what the last book was. They’ve all blurred together so much that it’s like I read all of them at the same time (…wish I could do that. That’d be sweeeeet!).

But I think the last book I read was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

I’ve been trying to broaden my knowledge of “the classics” during the last few months, and seeing as I loved watching Muppet Treasure Island as a child, I figured I’d give Stevenson’s novel a whirl.

And you know what?

…I think the Muppets did it better. Sorry, Robbo, but they did. Case in point:

- Love The Bad Guy

DAY 17: Shortest Book You’ve Read

There are some books in the world that everybody knows; they may not have actually read the book, but they know the basic storyline. One of these books is Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Of course, once we finally get around to reading these classics, we can discover things about the book of which we weren’t previously aware. Perhaps we had two characters confused in our minds; perhaps we thought it was written by a different author. In the case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I was surprised the find that the story was, in fact, squeezed into an eighty-page novella, and was not the full-length text that I had believed it to be.

But I have to hand it to Mr Stevenson: the book may have been short, but it was truly wonderful!  Way to pack everything into a small package, big guy.

- Love The Bad Guy