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Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Forgotten Garden
I read Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden for my book group. I was enthusiastic about reading this modern-day Gothic tale about a child mysteriously left on an Australian dock whose quest to uncover her true identity ends up spanning three generations and two countries. On the whole I enjoyed the book, but there were many … Continue reading
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Traveling Mercies
I picked up Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith at the Friends of the Library Book Sale a few weeks ago. It sounded familiar, though I’m not sure where I’d heard of the title, or the author, before. It’s a spiritual autobiography of sorts, a series of impressions that, pieced together, give us … Continue reading
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The Little White Horse
I thought I had set Elizabeth Goudge aside for awhile, but when I found myself with unusually long periods of uninterrupted reading time over the weekend, I picked up The Little White Horse to alternate with the other book I’m reading. I enjoyed it thoroughly and wonder how on earth I missed it as a … Continue reading
The Joy of the Snow
Elizabeth Goudge’s autobiography leaves me with mixed feelings. In the first half, I was enthusiastic. She is witty and self-deprecating, and I felt that my expectation that I would like this writer personally was confirmed. I really enjoyed the details of her childhood in an Edwardian home and garden, interspersed with trips to the Channel … Continue reading
The Bird in the Tree
“I think a woman’s history is very often like those old romances you laugh at,” says Lady Lucilla Eliot. “You may laugh at them but they were truer to life than many of those psychological novels you young people read nowadays. We women don’t sit half the day and night analyzing our emotions but we … Continue reading
