One of my 2014 resolutions was to go back and pick up a few Golden Oldies from my high school and college reading lists. Here’s a personal fave about a boy and his little white mouse.

I ran across Flowers for Algernon again on somebody’s “best of” list a few weeks ago. I say “again” because I dimly remembered the book from a high school lit class… I seemed to recall Algernon was the mouse.

A quick trip to the library and I had a copy in my hand.

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