Today's Featured Book:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Genre: Fiction
Published: 1884
Page Count: 327 pages
Summary:
Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly – Tom’s Aunt Polly , she is – and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade (p. 1). Kindle Edition.
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"Hello, what's up? Don't cry, bub. What's the trouble?"
I says: "Pap, and mam, and sis, and—"
Then I broke down.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade (p. 56). Kindle Edition.
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I was assigned to lead our book club discussion on James by Percival Everett in July. I decided to start by rereading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a book I last read when I was in eighth grade in 1969.
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May 16th - 22nd - What are some of your favorite books to re-read? (submitted by Nicole @ The Christian Fiction Girl)
Great question! I am about to reread this book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, followed by a reread of James by Percival Everett.
This year I have reread The Backyard Bird Chronicles; Wolf Hall; Big Magic; The Forgotten Door; The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store; The Enchanted April; The Westing Game; The Color of Magic; Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver; and 1984.
But you asked what are some of my favorite books to reread. I've reread most often A Wrinkle in Time; The Good Earth; Gilead; The House on Mango Street; Don Quixote; The Great Gatsby; The Grapes of Wrath; Because of Winn-Dixie; and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
