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March 1, 2026

Goodreads

Updated: 03/01/2026 The website/app, Goodreads, setup a reading challenge at the beginning of each year, since 2016. If you are unfamiliar with Goodreads, it is a social website centered around books and reading. The idea is that you can upload your personal library of book titles and arrange lists by the books you’ve read, the books… Continue reading

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November 2, 2016

The Jungle Book ~Rudyard Kipling | Book Review

The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling Originally published: 1894 Description: The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. Purchase: Amazon Books My only exposure to Kipling’s classic was the Disney version and a cartoon rendering of… Continue reading

Mind

Adventure, Books, Fiction, Goodreads, Kipling, Writers
October 13, 2016

IF ~ Rudyard Kipling | Poem on Manhood

IF ~Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in… Continue reading

Mind

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Kipling

Goodreads

The Jungle Book ~Rudyard Kipling | Book Review

IF ~ Rudyard Kipling | Poem on Manhood