The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

I'm re-reading Wind in the Willows with the Lit Life podcast group and am especially enjoying the Librivox version by Adrian Praetzellis. If it is a book you haven't liked or understood, I recommend the podcast discussions. I also recommend listening to it the first time around. 

I wouldn't change a thing from my review of ten years ago, but I'd like to add a link to a wonderful article I read recently. It is called "What the Wind Goes Whispering" and is about the book's dual themes of longing for adventure and of the joys of staying at home.

Finally, I'll include a quote on the glories of Badger's home: Rows of spotless plates winked from the shelves of the dresser at the far end of the room, and from the rafters overhead hung hams, bundles of dried herbs, nets of onions, and baskets of eggs. It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment. The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over every thing.

Is this on anyone else's favorites list?

Blessings,