★★★★★ — I have either read it more than once, or it shaped and influenced my thinking, or I find myself thinking about it long after I finished reading it.

★★★★ — Well-worth the time spent reading, may read it again, but haven’t yet.

★★★ — Passed the time satisfactorily, but would not read again nor urge you to read.

★★ — Had a few redeeming moments, but for the most part, a poor use of time.

— Deeply regret that I read this. The time would have been better spent staring vacantly out the window.


“To a Mouse On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785” by Robert Burns
fiction, ★★★★★ Suzanne Chandler fiction, ★★★★★ Suzanne Chandler

“To a Mouse On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785” by Robert Burns

Steinbeck took his title for Of Mice and Men from Robert Burn’s poem, To a Mouse: On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785. I love this poem and long to share it with others, but the original language is a bit off-putting to some. Here is my solution. Burns on the left; Chandler on the right.

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