Longklaw.com

Home > books, Uncategorized > Summer of the Monkeys

Summer of the Monkeys

Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Will Leave a comment Go to comments

I finally finished Summer of the Monkeys Wednesday night. I took a long break from it, but got back into it recently. Because of that long break from reading, my Reading List (Early 2007) has simply become my Reading List 2007. I’ve even added a few more books to the list.

The reason I chose to read Summer of the Monkeys is that I’m pretty sure it was the first novel I ever read. I had to read it for English class, and that is how I started to like reading books. It’s been somewhere around 15 years since I last read this book, and time does make a different.

It was definitely written for a younger audience. All the innocence/ignorance of the children got on my nerves a little. Of course there was usually an adult around to say something like “I don’t think that’s gonna happen”. The story takes place in the Ozarks. I got tired of reading so many country expressions. I guess that’s why I took a break from the book and had trouble motivating myself to come back to it. Once I did get back into it, the story got moving along and I managed to deal with the annoyances.

How did I celebrate finishing the novel? I baked cookies and drew designs on them. I drew the Star Trek symbol on one, drew the Heroes symbol on another, wrote “so say we all” on another, and so forth. I’ll add that to the list of my recent random impulses. And now the new book list. It’ll probably bleed over into 2008.