Sunday, February 17, 2008

An Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett

A small book (only 120 pages) that is a complete delight. The Queen (of England!) is out with her Corgis when they take off after a mobile library that is parked in the lane. Feeling guilty that the dogs are so noisy, the Queen checks out a book and discovers, after years of not reading, that she likes to read!

The problems that the Queen's reading brings to the Court are amusing and not only among the humans! "Indulged and bad-tempered though they were, the dogs were not unintelligent, so it was not surprising that in a short space of time they came to hate books as the spoilsports they are (and always have been)."

Check it out - Enjoy!

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