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My main complaint: Dad was a walking encyclopedia! He knew everything about everything. It didn‘t seem very believable, either. The variety of animals on the island, plus they never seemed to miss when they were hunting. It was all too easy. Not only that, they wanted to stay on the island (at least at one point)! The audio: although it did seem to hold my interest at the start… it lost me part way through and my interest came in and out. ok.

#DivineDecember @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Family

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Prompt: The Jungle Book

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Prompt: Home Alone

A little Swiss Family Robinson for today‘s #FamilyLove prompt #ItHadToBeYou 💖

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 172.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

#GratefulHarvest @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Family

#ForeverNovember @OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#Family

Currently listening to the Swiss Family Robinson just in case there are any survival tips I can pick up. Just in case...🤣

Thank you for the #LMPBC #BookMail @lover.of.the.classics! 🤗 I have all kinds of books going on right now. 😂

This is my pick for #GroupC of the new round of #LMPBC so I won't delve too much into the details. Overall an enjoyable read that I hadn't visited since childhood. A bit unbelievable - truly, other than getting shipwrecked, I'm not sure anything else went very wrong! - but still a great deal of fun!
@lover.of.the.classics @lele1432 @Bookwormjillk

Less than a hundred pages left - hoping to finish this one tonight!!!

#weeklyforecast -

Currently reading the tagged book + The Adventures of Sally. Planning to read The Prenup next, as it is an #LMPBC read, then start on the second half of the Bess Crawford series, as the last book in the series is due back at the library at the end of the month!!

1. Tagged + Golden Sovereign by Dorothy Lyons + Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
2. Honestly all day, whenever I'm not using my eyes for something else. :-D Meals are always a big reading time for me.
3. I don't really do a lot of social media. I follow Maggie Stiefvater because I find her to be hilarious and insightful lol

#WeekendReads @RachelsBrittain

#bookreport - Finished the checked books; currently reading the circle books. Not a lot of reading time scheduled this weekend - BUNCH of outdoor chores to accomplish while the sun is shining!!

@cinfhen

Started this one last night for #LMPBC #GroupC - haven't read it since I was a wee girl, so I am interested to revisit it. I mostly remember being enamoured with all the animals they tamed.
@lover.of.the.classics @lele1432 @Bookwormjillk

Day 30 - #Switzerland #LetsTravelAugust

Swiss Family Robinson #SwissFamilyRobinson #1960 #JohannWyss #book #books #bookvibe #bookvibes #bookvsmovie #bookvsfilm #bookbag #bookbinding #bookbeau #bookblog #bookblogger #bookbinding #bookbag #booknerd #booknerds #booknerdsunite #booknerdy #booknook #booknation #nerd #nerds #nerdy #nerdsunite #bookmark #bookmarks #bookmarket #bookmarkets #bookmoment #bookmoments #bookmovie #bookquote #bookquotes #Adventure #Family #bookqueen #bookquirk 🧡🧡🧡

Not as good as the old Disney movie I remember watching as a kid... but I still liked this very much.

Starting this on #overdrive

I watched the movie over and over as a kid. Recently I found the book and fell in love with it! Such an amazing tale about a family who stuck together and survived despite terrible circumstances. Faith and family got them through.

No one, I think, is in my tree. #strawberryfieldsforever #heyjune

#ManicMonday
Such a tough choice, but I‘ll opt for The Ultimate HHGTTG, The Belgariad (that counts as one, right?), The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Let‘s Pretend This Never Happened, & bonus, the Complete Works of Jane Austen.

Kids read recently

Day 8: #family

Spotted at the library sale.

@RealLifeReading #seasonssreadings2017

I‘m a little torn how to review this book. I found it at times tedious and repetitive, and a little comical what encyclopedic knowledge the patriarch possessed about all the rare & random things they encountered! I was more than a little annoyed at having to wait 5 chapters to discover the wife/mother did in fact have a name (Elisabeth) & then never read it again. She was often praised for her industriousness & ingenuity though. (Continued)

Sentences like this make me laugh. I‘m sure it‘s not meant to be funny, but I find it delightfully amusing.

Getting closer to the end. They sure do keep busy! #serialreader @SerialReader

Finally getting some good reading in on this! And I'm so glad we learned his wife's name toward the end of the 3rd chapter! #SerialReader @SerialReader

Books before Disney....

#Uncriticalaugust #Disney
@Critic_Uncritical_Bookworm

Beautiful, tho slightly abused edition. #tbr

In all serious, though, my #favoritechildrensbooks when I was actually a child were these babies right here. Did anyone else love Great Illustrated Classics? #riotgrams

My parents have had a good clean out so mum has sent me some new (old) books! 😍 Has anyone read any of these yet? Can anyone recommend which ones I should start with? 📚

Whilst I understand that this is a classic novel, I couldn't help but be bored with it. It's just that nothing really exciting happened. Sure there were one or two events that I perked up at, but for being shipwrecked on an island it just seemed waaaaaay too easy for them to survive and prosper. It was to hard to suspend disbelief for the entirety of the novel when nothing that bad happened to any of the main characters. And then it just ends.

This is one of those books you love as a kid, but which do not hold up at all when re-read as an adult. I am still in love with the concept--family is shipwrecked & builds a prosperous life--but there is much to annoy & frustrate a modern reader. The father is a self satisfied know-it-all walking encyclopedia of EVERYTHING, the boys slaughter or capture every animal on a whim & mother is too servile. 🙄🙄🙄 Unrealistic execution of a good premise.

It took some going, but I finished! It's a good, rounded read that is more child-friendly perhaps than Robinson Crusoe but it lacked a little in storyline, only really engaging with me right at the end. If you're looking for a bit of fun, you won't go far wrong with this one.

This book is basically just Minecraft. They build a crap house, plant some crops, capture some animals, then build a better house, plant MORE crops and then go mining. It's all good fun with ZERO peril! And none of those bloody Creepers sneaking up on you and blowing up your picket fence!

Breakfast at 4am this morning with the greatest book cover ever to be bound to the written page!

Speechless...

This is seriously fecked up! The dog (Turk) just killed the monkey's mum, but Fritz can't be arsed carrying the little baby it left behind so he ties it to the back of said dog (Turk) and let's it ride him like a horse. WTF???

Officially the worst book cover I own - this guy even had his eyes shut when the flash went off!!!!

CPG is not impressed with my reading progress on Serial Reader 🙄😳🤓 #TBR

Misogynistic drivel. Dad is an expert in everything, mom cooks and serves, boys kill things.