The Little Prince: check!

This weekend I went on a road trip that took approximately 10 hours each way, and on the way back I listened to the 2 hour audiobook of The Little Prince to pass the time. What an interesting book! It was definitely shorter than I imagined, and I didn't know there would be the narrator as a character in it...I thought it would be a story of a prince from outer space who went random places and then returned home. I guess my impression of the story was not too far off.

There were a ton of great quotes in the book, but I'm a little upset that I did not mark them down because I was driving. I loved the humor in the book, and the idea of looking at things from a child's point of view. Fresh from teaching kindergarten, some of the things the little prince said made perfect sense to me.

Enjoyable. The storyline was a little bizarre, but it had a wonderful message of friendship and innocence and perspective. I thought it was a wonderful story.

Next up: Midnight's Children. I was reading it before I left and I'll be continuing. I'm only a couple of chapters in right now, but I'm enjoying it...it reminds me of the beginning of Life of Pi right now a little bit as they are both set in India. Hopefully it is excellent because it was highly recommended by the man at the bookstore.