Adventures of Pinocchio
Title: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Author: Carlo Collodi
Reading Time:
I’ve been aware of key parts of this story since early childhood; how Pinocchio’s nose grows each time he tells a lie. I may have seen bits and pieces of the Disney movie as well. But never have I read the whole book. Well, that will change in the next couple days. They had it on the BARD site and I downloaded it to one of these new cartridges for the NLS DTB players I purchased this past February. In my quest to make up for the literary shortfalls created in school by spending too many study halls out on the playground instead of reading, this is one of the many shorter but classic tales I hope to digest this year.
April 12th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
10:40 PM: Read chapters one through fifteen so far. We’ve met Pinocchio, the man deemed his guardian, the puppet master, the cat, the fox, the talking cricket, a good fairy, and a host of her animal servants.
Pinocchio himself is a wooden puppet that his caregiver made out of a piece of wood which was endowed with sentience; it was alive, and not just in the way that wood lives in a tree. No, this piece could talk and feel pain too. They didn’t explain how this happened; just one of those givens us readers must accept.
April 13th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
11:55 PM: Read up through chapter twenty-one. Shortly after their foiled first attempt, the villainous cat and fox finally managed to rest Pinocchio’s gold pieces from him. The child fairy with the blue hair died and then came back to life.
April 14th, 2010 at 6:33 am
09:30 AM: Read through chapter twenty-seven overnight. The fairy, now a woman, persuades Pinnochio to attend school and to be good boy and do as she asks of him.
April 15th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
11:43 PM: Read up through the last chapter; chapter thirty-six. Good fairy tale.