Penrod (Gordon Grant Illustrated Edition) Book

This is the last title in my Stags Of The Stag Cook Book Reading List. I've never read anything by Booth Tarkington, although I'm familiar with the name and his literary reputation. I thought this book would be an interesting introduction to Tarkington's work, but I think my timing was off. I am preparing for another trip north, and I could not get myself mentally involved in this story about young Penrod Schofield and his life in the Midwest of the early 1900's.

I tried. I staggered along through 15 of 31 chapters, but honestly, I didn't care much for the boy. Maybe at some point he redeems himself and show a heart of gold, but for as long as I read he was just a terror. I decided I simply did not care what other kinds of troubles....er, adventures Penrod got into.

Someday I might give it another go, when I don't have 42 gazillion other things floating around in my little pea brain. Might.

Oh, and meanwhile, I can share the final recipe of this personal challenge, but it was not really a recipe at all. Tarkington contributed the following to the Stag Cook Book:
"My favorite dish is corn flakes. They should be placed in a saucer or hollow dish, then lifted in both hands and rolled for a moment, then dropped back into the dish. After that an indefinite quantity of cream should be poured upon them. They should be eaten with a spoon. I don't know how to prepare anything else for the table."

And so one more challenge is completed with a whimper instead of a bang. LOL