Yaaaaaay, the really truly beautiful ending! One of the greatest moments in English writing to describe humanism and love and all good things. If you have read the whole book, I recommend skipping to this discussion, and then going back to the other two, because really the ending dominates all.

Woot, some of you are actually promising to try re-reading and following along with me! So we will see if this post gets comments. Even if it doesn’t, I am still happy because I just love talking about this book.

This may just be me talking to myself, but I don’t care. I love love love this book, and I know it is Orientalist, but it’s also loving and well-written and a vision of India from someone who actually lived in India, and loved India, during that time period.

I have been considering doing this book for DCIB Book Club for ages. I’ve avoided it because a) Kipling was a colonist, and b) the book is slightly long for a book club pick. But I’ve decided we are smart enough to deal with the complications of Kipling’s relationship to India, and I’ll just break it into 3 parts.