Karen’s Reviews > The Works of Rudyard Kipling, One Volume Edition > Status Update

Still in the Other Verses.
Still giggling too loudly,especially over Certain Maxims Of Hafiz and also The Undertaker’s Horse.

And more Other Verses.
I love The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding House!
Anne of Austria…Hans the blue-eyed Dane…Salem Hardieker, a lean Bostonian…it’s in the names!

Other Verses continued.
Christmas in India…the work seems like it should be sung.
Can’t help wondering if it has ever been set to music.

Continuing Other Verses, I recall reading The Rival many years ago.
It’s cute and funny.
Again you have to shelve your easily offended side to read Kipling. He spares no one’s feelings.

Started “Other Verses” section
Turn of phrase is what Kipling does best.

From La Nuit Blanche-
“I observed a camel crawl,
Laws of gravitation scorning,
On the ceiling and the wall”

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Halfway through the Departmental Ditties.
Giggling too loud. Had to stop so my husband could sleep 😂❣️
Why read Kipling? Recently saw the movie Gunga Din (1935, I think; not the first time I’ve seen it) and giggled through it too. If you’ve never seen it, you’ve missed a great Cary Grant movie 🎥 based on a Kipling work 📚
But shelve your easily offended nature. It was the time of Empires.