A Poem

A Covered Bridge

I stroll along a bubbling brook,

Exploring every crevice and crook,

Until at last I hap upon,

What you will learn here anon.

A swift step over hill and dale,

Will quickly take me there,

And, like a pigeon flut’ring home,

To the end soon will I roam.

A squatting toad athwart the creek,

Now have I found the thing I seek.

‘Tis white and russet and quite long,

A bridge for me to march along.

With peaking roof and creaking bed,

With beams, so that I bump my head,

And windows, out of which I look,

And spot bellow the bubbling brook.

Book Review: Northanger Abbey

Hello everyone! I've decided to begin doing book reviews, perhaps once a week. You will probably see many classics, or books that you might not be interested in at first glance. I would like to encourage you to branch out!

Title: Nortanger Abbey

Author: Jane Austen

Quote:

" 'You think me foolish to call instruction a torment; but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters, and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.' "

Plot Summary/Discription: This book is one of Jane Austen's earlier novels, so it is perhaps a little less refined then her later works. That aside, it positively oveflows with wit and humor. A heart-warming coming of age story, it tells the tale of 17-year-old Catherine Morland. Catherine is a young, nieve, girl, who is just barely pretty. The first exciting thing that happens in her life is a trip to Bath that she goes on with some family friends. While there, Catherine meets new friends, such as the coquettish Isabelle and her brother and the Tilneys, a rich family of a father, two sons, and a daughter not much older than Catherine. This unusual number of single young people causes love affairs to explode left and right, to all of which Catherine remains blissfully oblivious for most of the story.

Eventually, Catherine is invited to accompany the Tilney's to their country estate, where Catherine, a great reader of horror mystries, thinks she has uncovered a gruesome murder. The series of events leading to this discovery--and eventually to its refution--are full of tongue-in-cheek satire. Haven learned a lesson from this misadventure, Catherine is perfectly ready to enjoy the rest of her stay when something unexpected happens.

Objectionable content: As with all Jane Austen novels, this is pretty mild. However, their are some suggested  cursewords desognated by the first letter of the word followed by a dash.