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Rabbit go home

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by James Sturm

December 1, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel adapted by James Sturm and illustrated by Joe Sutphin took Richard Adams’ novel and made it into a lovely book about the power of the people, and lovely illustrations that show the good and the darkness around them. The story is the one you know and maybe loved as a child, but I was fresh to the story for the most part. I knew that there would be rabbits and people had said it was dark, but other than that, I had […]

We always lose those who we love.

The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

August 4, 2023 by jormis 1 Comment

My first dog was a Scottish Terrier named Ukko (after an old Finnish God – the God of Thunder and also the Supreme God [1]). Brought from Eastern Finland to Helsinki in 1993. As a puppy, he had a penchant for eating the insides of my shoes. Must have been due to my natural, vibrant scent. Otherwise, like all terriers, he was a fearless creature and built like a tank. Sadly, Ukko had a congenital heart disease which ended his life twelve years later. At […]

Are We Human or Rabbit?

Watership Down by Richard Adams

February 10, 2020 by Ale Leave a Comment

While my father’s bedtime stories to me were Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, my husband’s father read him Watership Down. It’s a book I’d never heard of before meeting him, and as it was a huge part of his childhood, I felt I should finally get around to it. In a word, this book is about rabbits. On a larger scale, this book is about a journey, not unlike the hobbits’ trek in Lord of the Rings. But if you’re looking at this book metaphorically […]

Sequel to Watership Down Does Not Quite Live Up to First Book

Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams

January 25, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

This was an enjoyable collection of short stories about the rabbits of Watership Down. We get to read about what they were up to before the end of the first book which caused me no end of tears. I honestly have to say that reading about El-ahrairah in the first story was fine, but after that I found myself getting bored. The book didn’t pick up for me until we were following Hazel, Fiver, and the others who were setting into Watership Down. I do think […]

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