Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Another Book

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb



I’ve just finished another book. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. Cold, damp late winter is perfect for reading books.



This is another fiction. Weaves the idea of fairy tale stories throughout four generations of women. Intertwines actual fairy tales into the connections. And gardens. A perfect book for reading in March because I was transported to the beauty of my forgotten gardens in the depth of this everlasting winter. I know I needed the fantasy of the story because I took it with me to my dreams at night, obviously unwilling to stop the life of the story simply because my tired eyes and brain couldn’t keep going.



The idea of fairies caught my fancy early in the book and didn’t let go. A poster hung on the bedroom wall of a house long ago. It was the house where my sister and I shared the entire upper floor of a small Cape Cod house, half play room and half sleeping room. We were young girls and fantasy abounded in that room. The poster, in my memory, was of dark colors. A beautiful nature scene, at the edge of water. Where you could look into the water and see life teemed below. There were fairies and other beings both above and below the water. Pure delight, with just a small amount of danger lurking nearby. I have often thought of that poster and wish I could somehow find it again. Might make the perfect hanging in my study, where much of my fantasy life lives these days.



With spring coming, it seems perfect to think of fairies living about me. I’ve found, packed away, a couple of fairy prints that I do have, even framed. They must have been waiting for me to wake up, along with the coming spring. Think they’ll be perfect in my study. Who knows what magic might result?

Winter Birch

Winter Birch

Books Recently Read

  • Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
  • Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamond
  • The Dinner by Herman Koch
  • The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
  • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • The Lake House by Karen Morton
  • Memories of Heaven by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • The Whip by Karen Kondazian
  • Purity by Jonathan Franzen
  • The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
  • The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain
  • The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
  • The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
  • The Rosie Effect by Graeme Samson
  • The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
  • My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
  • Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
  • Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
  • I Can See Clearly Now by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • The Best Part of the Day by Sara Ban Breathnach
  • Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
  • The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
  • Chanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless
  • The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
  • Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
  • Peaches for Father Francis by Joanne Harris
  • Five Quarters of the the Orange by Joanne Harris
  • Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
  • The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris
  • Chocolat by Joanne Harris
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  • There Are No Accidents by Robert Hopcke
  • You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay
  • We Thought You Would Be Prettier by Laurie Notaro
  • The Vein of Gold by Julia Cameron
  • Room by Emma Donoghue
  • House at Riverton by Kate Morton
  • Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
  • The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
  • Peace and Plenty by Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
  • On a Day Like This by Peter Stamm
  • Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
  • Brida by Paulo Coelho
  • A Stopover in Venice by Kathryn Walker
  • Warrior of the Light by Paulo Coelho

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