Book # 8:Thor VS. Hulk

Title: Thor Vs. Hulk

Author: Stan Lee Et Al.

Have I read this book before?

How obtained: Borrowed from our local library.

Why This Book: I work at a local movie theatre and the new Thor movie comes out next week.  I checked out 2 Thor collections from my library and this was one of them.  I have read a few of these stories before, and  I liked the idea of a bunch of comics all dedicated to the fights between Thor and the Hulk.

Here's what someone else thought about this book: Amazon review.

What did I think: For the most part, I liked these stories. I think I might have liked a book called Thors greatest team-ups better even if it included just some of these battles.  

I finished this book on July 1st, the 34th day of my summer reading program. This put me on schedule to read 23.53 books during the challenge. 

Book #7: Little House on the Prairie

 

Title: Little House on the Prairie

Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Have I read this book before? Not sure

How obtained: Borrowed from our local library

Why This Book: My girls liked this series of books when they were growing up and my wife and I would read the books to our family.  I decided a few years agi that I wanted to read the entire series myself and this is the third one I've got to so far.

(Not So) Fun Fact: A few years ago I took this book out from the library and one of my daughters took it upstairs to read and lost it.  Finally, I had to pay the library to replace it.  Like clockwork, my kids then found the book but our library won't let you return a book once you've paid for it. When I went to borrow it from them to read it this year, they had lost it again.

Quote from the book:

Pa and Ma were still and silent on the wagon-seat, and Mary and Laura were quiet, too. But Laura felt all excited inside. You never know what will happen next, nor where you'll be tomorrow when you are traveling in a covered wagon.

Here's what someone else thought about this book: Click here for Plugged In's review of this book.

What Did I think? While it's not my favorite of the Little House books it is a solid piece of work.  I think Pa is a moral compass for the family and I like especially how he continues to be a voice of reason for how their family should treat Native Americans even though other characters believe and say say some racist things, it is clear that the family follows the Dad's example of tolerance and neighborliness.  

I finished this book on June 27th, the 30th day of my summer reading program. This puts me on schedule 23.31 books during the challenge.

Book #6: Moby Dick

Title: Moby Dick

Author: Herman Melville

How obtained: Listened to via Hoopla

Why This Book? It all began in 1993 ...

Quote from the book:

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery, about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St. John.  And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide rolling water prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulism, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rollings waves but made so by their restlessness. 

From Chapter 111 - The Pacific 

Here's what someone else thought about this book: Click here for original reviews of the book from 1851 (several years before I began reading it.). 

What did  I think? Who cares??!!?? After almost 30 years, I finally finished it!! I loved it! It is odd, eccentric, dark, genial, down-to-earth, tantalizing and mesmerizing; sometimes, all at once. Next summer, I may even attempt to read it again. I finished this book on June 24th, the 27th day of my summer reading program. This puts me on schedule to read 22.22 books during the challenge. 

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