Book #48

Animal Farm by George Orwell

152 pages

 

 

Animal Farm got put on my to-read list after reading an article somewhere about all the books you were forced to read in high school. After reading the list, this was the main one that bothered me that I had never read. So I put it on my list ... and there it stayed ... for a long, long, long time.

 

Is it terrible that I probably would have read it sooner if I had realized how short it was? I was surprised when I picked it up this morning (yes, it's been that kind of Saturday when all I've done is read most of the day ... Finished Paper Towns this morning as well).

 

Of course, Animal Farm is one of the most famous (or maybe just THE most famous) satire and allegory in literature. As much as I enjoy history, I will be the first to admit I had Wikipedia pulled up as I read this book so I could better understand the ties. (In other news, how did I survive high school without Wikipedia? I didn't start using it until college. SparkNotes was as good as it got back in high school, and sometimes I felt like I needed SparkNotes for the SparkNotes!!)

 

I felt strongly I needed to add at least one more "classic" to my list (to make up for reading the Teen Mom 2 book, I guess ;) ). This one was a perfect one to add to the list.

 

Next up: (in a completely different direction...) Uganda Be Kidding Me by Chelsea Handler

 

P.S. I am almost done with my 50!!!! I'm feeling great about it!!! Can't wait to start brainstorming 2015's goal!