Peter Pan (urspr publ 1911; utgåvan 2005)

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❧ audiobook review

All these years later and I still want to go to Neverland. Also, Lily Collins is a terrific narrator. ♡

I just finished it. And I'm left with a deep feeling of nostalgia - like I have lost something deep within myself and yet, I'm can't quite remember what it was.

Adulthood steals our innocence. We forget what it was to be young. And yet, Peter never changed, never grew old. He also never died and was forgotten. It seems part of me desperately wants to remain just as a child - "gay, innocent, and heartless" - but that requires stasis, never changing, never growing or progressing or even learning. So the other part is grateful for change and growing up. Can I at the same time mourn the loss of childhood and while I celebrate the joy of growth? Can we embrace both or is this an unavoidable ether/or? ( )

Peter is a terrible child. Wendy is forced into heteronormative mommyhood. First Peoples are made into racial stereotypes (time context obviously, BUT STILL). Basically, this is all the things I don't like packaged into a "children's book." It seriously lacked Christopher Walken's drunken acting, which added some needed hilarity to the 2014 live production. ( )