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“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
The Jungle Book ~~ Rudyard Kipling
Kipling, Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, & I have been on a long journey together. I started The Jungle Book nearly ten years ago. I lost my copy when I moved from the west coast to Chicago, found it again, picked up where I left off, lost it again when I moved to Wisconsin, and found it again in 2014. Since then, it's lingered on my nightstand waiting for me to join Mowgli again on ...more
The Jungle Book ~~ Rudyard Kipling
Kipling, Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, & I have been on a long journey together. I started The Jungle Book nearly ten years ago. I lost my copy when I moved from the west coast to Chicago, found it again, picked up where I left off, lost it again when I moved to Wisconsin, and found it again in 2014. Since then, it's lingered on my nightstand waiting for me to join Mowgli again on ...more
I read this book because someone told me that the dress I was wearing reminded him of the cover of the Jungle Book, and then followed up by saying that it was a good book and I should read it. I have never watched the movie and so didn’t have the preconceived notions that many other people do.
This is a collection of short stories. The first three feature Mowgli, a boy who grows up amongst a pack of wolves, and it seems like the rest of the book is going to focus on him, but then the later storie ...more
This is a collection of short stories. The first three feature Mowgli, a boy who grows up amongst a pack of wolves, and it seems like the rest of the book is going to focus on him, but then the later storie ...more
From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
The story by Rudyard Kipling is dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
The story by Rudyard Kipling is dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
I cannot really say it was aaaaaaall bad, but I just couldn't finish it. It was such a chore to read it and... and seeing how I started it in August, I kinda forgot what I did not like about it - because only recently I tried to read the story with the elephants again...
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