Monday, November 20, 2006

Finished Book 1

I finished the first book of my Stacks challenge - The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban.

It's about a wind-up toy mouse who turns and lifts a little mouse into the air, like a father swinging his child in the air in circles. They're in a store with other toys and a grand Victorian mansion. They're sold, and they soon break and are thrown out, and the rest of the book is about their search to recapture their glorious past when they felt like they belonged in a kind of family in the mansion. It was not bad, decently written, I thought.

I'll read Just David next.