Goodreads Monday: 24/6/2024

Goodreads Monday is now hosted by Budget Tales Book Club. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.

Hello!

I hope everyone has had a good start to the week. I have boiled at school today and was glad to go on an evening walk to cool off. My teaching room at school is very small and even with the windows open I still struggle.

My chosen book to feature today is by one of my favourite authors. I would love to one day be able to say I had read all of his books. It is definitely one of my aims but I’m not sure I will manage it.

The first volume of Alexandre Dumas’ two-part interpretation of the story of Robin Hood, popularised for Nineteenth Century audiences by Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, set in England in 1162-66.

In this book, Dumas tells the story of Robin Hood’s youth: how he is delivered by an unknown man to be raised by poor but honest foresters, his great skill as an archer, how he comes into conflict with the Baron [sic] of Nottingham, how he meets Friar Tuck, the Maid Marian, Little John, Will Scarlett, and others, how he is declared an outlaw by the King, and decamps, with his followers, into Sherwood Forest to wage war against the Baron.

Happy Reading