Peter Pan

Ever so beautiful and tragic Peter Pan was a favorite when I was a child. It was a lovely thing to dream of a place called Neverland, where one may fly with fairies and splash with mermaids. As an adult, you realize the truth of what Barrie himself once said… that he’d written a tragedy. Beautiful, se Leggi tutto

I read this to Celyn. It's a short book. Google tells me 47,000 words but it felt shorter than that. Many of us know the story second hand through cartoons, Hollywood adaptations, and picture-books. The original item is not that dissimilar, though it's a fair bit more brutal than the cartoons and hav Leggi tutto

ENGLISH ( Peter Pan ) / ITALIANO «All children, except one, grow up.» The incipit of Peter Pan of J.M. Barrie is the perfect synthesis of the book. I will try to make the point using as inspiration the words of a child, namely three phrases from my daughter Arianna while in the evening she was listening Leggi tutto

Magical This week, I went to a local park, sat at a picnic table, and started to read Peter and Wendy to two children. Within seconds, every child in the park, all children that I didn’t even know, sat at the picnic table, engrossed in the story. Peter and Wendy is the story that we know as Peter Pa Leggi tutto

Oh boy. I'm not sure what to say other than I cannot think of one aspect I enjoyed about this book. I tend to gravitate toward dark, disturbing, and twisted stories ( what does that say about me??? ), but this was just sad with no pay off. Each page felt like a chore to get through and I didn't even f Leggi tutto

‘all children, except one, grow up.’ perhaps i could call it a quarter life crisis, but i am definitely experiencing a little bit of peter pan syndrome lately. and this story is that wonderful adventure through childhood nostalgia that i am desperately needing. a bit old fashioned, for sure, but Leggi tutto

Whew child this! This book does not hold up. I don't exactly remember reading it as a child, but I'm not sure that I would have connected the dots with the number of issues I had reading this book as an adult. First, I don't think I need to give a description of this one. So many people are familiar Leggi tutto

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” Peter Pan was one of my favorite childhood stories and I'm in awe of the layers upon layers I discovered reading it now as an adult. The narrator is inconsistent, almost vicious, changes opinions and switches sides, sometimes rude and insensitive, but always Leggi tutto