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I am now confused. I do not know anymore what is my preference when it comes to books.When I was a kid, I wanted to read only books with pictures like the illustrated "Alice in the Wonderland" or "Rip Van Winkle". Until I read "Silas Marner" with no pictures and I said, wow, books with no pictures are also great! When I was a teenager, I said I don't like to read books that are hard to understand and read by adults until I read "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov and I said, wow, I did not know that th...
I got the beautiful MinaLima Edition! This book is so magical! I love it so much!! 💕🌸I have a special edition coming that I hope to share with y’all. Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
100 days into 2021 and 100 books have been read. Check out my latest BookTube Video to see which ones are my fave! The Written Review Orphaned Mary Lennox had a sour face, bitter temperment and dismal dispostion.But could you blame her? Nine years old and she was barely shown an ounce of affection. Her parents saw her as an accessory (to be paraded about for parties) and when they died, and Mary shipped off to live with a distant uncle...she felt just as alone as ever.She spent her time on t
Book 16 of 30 for my 30 day reading challenge.
I first read this wonderful and evocative absolute and utter gem of a story at around the age of twelve (and it was likely one of the first longer novels I read entirely in English, not counting those books read entirely for school). And I simply adored Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden when I read it as a young teenager (or rather, a tween), I continued to love it when I reread it multiple times while at university, and I still massively loved the novel when I reread the story for the...
Genre: Fiction, Classic.Publication Date: 1911"Ofcourse there must be lots of Magic in this world" he said wisely one day "but people don't know what it is."- Begins as a slow story of an unwanted and ugly child, who grew up to be very disagreeable (Mistress Mary quite Contrary).- I felt that the curiosity element in this book is the strongest, which makes us curious too.- Description of the moor, its plants, its breeze, its dampness, its animals and birds is heavenly. (Its saddening to me that
I know this book seems out of place among the fare I usually read, but hey, all I can say is that I like what I like. There is some intangible quality to this book that really strikes a chord in me. The whole idea of that sickly child being healed with love, attention, and (forgive me an LDS joke) wholesome recreational activities, just somehow speaks Truth to me. I think this book has strong application to today's problems with the rising generation. I really believe that kids these days are ge...
One of my most cherished books. 💖Somewhere around the age of seven or eight I came across a beautiful book in my local library that contained both The Secret Garden and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I instantly latched onto it and completely fell in love with the two stories. Over the years I checked that book out again and again, and eventually got my own copies. There is something about The Secret Garden that is so hard to capture in a review. From that first reading, and for e...
Why I chose to read this book:1. I remember seeing this lovely story reenacted as a musical play by some middle-school students several years ago and was impressed by their performance; and,2. I wanted to end my "Classics Month" with this book that my GR friend, Isabel, recommended!Positives:1. I appreciated the believable growth of various characters, going from sour dispositions and downright rudeness to being filled with hope, joy and empathy. After just reading a book about another orphan (H...
Re-read this, after many years, as part of my children books experiment. Several revelations so far: One, the plot is basically JANE EYRE, with an asexual Rochester who keeps, not his wife, but his son, in the attic. Two, it's surprisingly easy to read the characters of both Mary and Colin as being on the autistic spectrum. (Her rudeness; her insensitivity to others, her obsessiveness: his tantrums; his introspection; his obsessions.) Three; the pantheism and everyday magic of the story is a lot...
