My Book Affair

Spare a thought this Easter for Mr Bennet from ‘pride and Prejudice’,
 who lived in house with six women and NO chocolate… 

This used to be a Lego Yellow submarine… but a submarine is not very Easter-ish.  Happy Easter one and all!

Sometimes it is not just the story within the book that is interesting, but also the story of the book itself.  

http://www.mybookaffair.net/2012/03/one-romantic-deserves-another-shelleys.html

William Pitt, First Lord Chatham to his future wife, Lady Lady Hester Grenville, October 3rd, 1754:

‘The tender warmth of your feeling, loving, heart has almost sweetly robbed me of the only superiority I gave myself; that of loving you more than you could love.  If you dispute this superiority, I can, I believe, forgive you.’

Forget chocolate this Easter: order Inga Moore’s illustrated version of ’The Secret Garden’ today.  Your inner child will thank you.

http://www.mybookaffair.net/2012/03/secret-allure-of-secret-garden.html

Girl Fairies: Lead they one with foolish care,
Deafening us with idle sound —
One whose breathing shakes the air,
One whose footfall shakes the ground.

From ‘A Lover’s Quarrel Among the Faeries’.

by W.B. Yeats

The Love Sonnets of William Shakespeare.

There are some moments in life when only the lines of a poem can echo the sentiment in your heart; when only the soul of a poet can express the words that you dare or dare not say. 

If you have ever read any of Kate Morton’s books and enjoyed them, well this the the original archetype. I think she must be a huge fan of Hodgson Burnett. It is ‘The Secret Garden’, for grown-ups, with a hint of gothic-thriller thrown in…

For a full review, see  my blog: 

http://mybookaffair.blogspot.com/2012/02/shuttle-by-frances-hodgson-burnett.html

Happy Birthday Mr Dickens.