Why can’t Caulfield advanced a few grades? How does that work in the US? Here, I have seen a good few kids do Higher Secondary (Class XII) at age 12, 13 and 14. All were promoted a few extra classes over the years.
I still have no idea how Caulfield’s costume and “A River Runs Through It” are related, except for the fishing rod. What’s with the loose trailing line?
It doesn’t exactly put a book in rare company for it to make me tear up at the end. But “A River Runs Through It” and “Of Mice and Men” may be the most blatantly guilty. Though they make me all misty for two very different reasons. The one because I’ve gotten to relate so much to the characters; the other because it gets me to relate to something inside myself that I lose track of to some extent between readings.
“River” is one of two books I own (the other is “Deep Survival,” by Laurence Gonzales) where I’ll read and re-read and re-read to death the final few pages and never get tired of it. I think I get less tired of it the more I read it. In neither case is the ending a spoiler. And neither is it stand-alone — in both cases, it’s far more meaningful with the weight of the whole book behind it. But when I recommend either book, I suggest reading the end first, and then just TRY not to go immediately to the beginning for the full feast. You want suspense? Wonder if the bulk of the book can live up to the end of it. You want a spoiler? Yes, it can.
Nachikethass over 5 years ago
Why can’t Caulfield advanced a few grades? How does that work in the US? Here, I have seen a good few kids do Higher Secondary (Class XII) at age 12, 13 and 14. All were promoted a few extra classes over the years.
djlactin over 5 years ago
The only two kids I know who skipped grades (direct to grade 2!!) failed grade 2.
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
Of mice and men recently got a new Dutch translation.
garysmigs over 5 years ago
I am currently reading “Of Mice and Men,” not often my life converges with Frazz!
well-i-never over 5 years ago
She only has the two books? I have some I haven’t even colored yet.
T Smith over 5 years ago
“A River Runs Through It” is a short read… 160 pages or so, if I recall.
Picked it up one evening around 10, stayed up to finish it in one sitting.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 5 years ago
“How could you know?”
“I just rolled over and looked.”
Apparently still a G-rated strip.
kunddog over 5 years ago
i would of guess that she was watching the political debates.
Stephen Gilberg over 5 years ago
Wait a minute. Her eyes were red yesterday, too. They’re always red.
Leslie99 over 5 years ago
Cancel the Doomsday Clock theory. I just read today’s strip. A stork in a tuxedo?
whelan_jj over 5 years ago
I still have no idea how Caulfield’s costume and “A River Runs Through It” are related, except for the fishing rod. What’s with the loose trailing line?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Frazz17 hrs ·
It doesn’t exactly put a book in rare company for it to make me tear up at the end. But “A River Runs Through It” and “Of Mice and Men” may be the most blatantly guilty. Though they make me all misty for two very different reasons. The one because I’ve gotten to relate so much to the characters; the other because it gets me to relate to something inside myself that I lose track of to some extent between readings.
“River” is one of two books I own (the other is “Deep Survival,” by Laurence Gonzales) where I’ll read and re-read and re-read to death the final few pages and never get tired of it. I think I get less tired of it the more I read it. In neither case is the ending a spoiler. And neither is it stand-alone — in both cases, it’s far more meaningful with the weight of the whole book behind it. But when I recommend either book, I suggest reading the end first, and then just TRY not to go immediately to the beginning for the full feast. You want suspense? Wonder if the bulk of the book can live up to the end of it. You want a spoiler? Yes, it can.