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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
the charm is lost on me at this point and I just generally think it's not aging well
We didn't hate this, but it was super weird. It was more like a string of random occurrences. After he sets out to find Margalo, the story seems to take more shape but makes just as little sense as the first half. Stuart proves himself to be a little shifty when he writes a letter to the tiny woman in the town he lands in, suggesting that he's a "person" who "happens to look like a mouse" and that her family might not approve of him, so he tells her that she shouldn't tell her mother & father what she's doing when she meets him, that "what they don't know won't hurt them". During this date with the young girl, he completely loses his cool over a disaster with his canoe and yells at her, "this isn't something I'd expect a woman to understand!" Shortly after that the story abruptly ends. I wouldn't recommend this book. However it is one example of when the movie is better than the book (the first movie at least).
Read and loved all three of the E. B. White biggies (Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte's Web, and this) when I was a kid. Not doing a star rating bc it's been so freaking long, and it doesn't hold holy nostalgia like some titles.
I listened to the audio book during my commute. It put me in a serene mood, which is exactly what I need on I-90 during rush hour, but it did strike me as a lot weirder than I remembered it being. Stuart is like a tiny, sensitive, middle-aged dandy. I love it when he acts as a substitute teacher, and when he takes charge of the schooner Wasp, but I'm annoyed by how prissy he is. Still, E.B. White is a truly lovely writer and that makes up for it.
It was well written, but a very sad ending. I failed to see the point of the story, although there were points of friendship and loyalty.
Honestly it was not my favorite book. I was expecting so much more since I've read Charlotte's Web quite a few times to my kid I was and we love that one so much. This one felt like it jumped all over the place and finally when there was a storyline it ended quite suddenly without any conclusion.
Do you ever read a "classic" and you're like...but why?
It had some easily accessible metaphors around accommodations vs. universal design, which was helpful because I was reading it with my clients who have intellectual disabilities. But overall, save a pretty incredible last sentence, this story didn't really do it for me.
It had some easily accessible metaphors around accommodations vs. universal design, which was helpful because I was reading it with my clients who have intellectual disabilities. But overall, save a pretty incredible last sentence, this story didn't really do it for me.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Boring and nonsensical. Why is he a very qualified sailor? And a teacher? How did he learn to read and write? Why is he treated like a mouse sometime and like a human gentleman at others? And why can he understand animals?
Read to my 7 yr old. The ending!!! So inconclusive! Haha it bothered me, but didn't seem to bother him as much.