Ask the Author: Norma Jean Lutz
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Norma Jean Lutz
This answer requires no contemplating or wondering. There's no hesitation. It would definitely be The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
I have envisioned that garden since I first heard the story read aloud by my sixth-grade teacher. I can see the walls, the gate, the rusty key, the budding shrubs, draping vines, colors of flowers, and the birds. I can smell the rich soil and know how it feels to my touch. I can hear the bird calls.
So... I would love to time-travel to Misselthwaite Manor, and visit the secret garden there.
That book changed my life. It was at that moment I received the revelation of how words had the power to affect the emotions.
I could not have articulated that at the time; but in retrospect, that's exactly when I was smitten with the longing to write.
Am so thankful for my grade-school teachers who read fiction books aloud to us every morning. What a lovely education for a budding novelist. (Who didn't even know she was "budding." smile)
I have envisioned that garden since I first heard the story read aloud by my sixth-grade teacher. I can see the walls, the gate, the rusty key, the budding shrubs, draping vines, colors of flowers, and the birds. I can smell the rich soil and know how it feels to my touch. I can hear the bird calls.
So... I would love to time-travel to Misselthwaite Manor, and visit the secret garden there.
That book changed my life. It was at that moment I received the revelation of how words had the power to affect the emotions.
I could not have articulated that at the time; but in retrospect, that's exactly when I was smitten with the longing to write.
Am so thankful for my grade-school teachers who read fiction books aloud to us every morning. What a lovely education for a budding novelist. (Who didn't even know she was "budding." smile)
Norma Jean Lutz
This is a strange question for me. I have no "seasonal" reading list. At all times I have at least three or four books being read at once. (Summer, winter, spring and fall!)
Always a constant supply of fiction. Usually YA fiction because that's my genre. Non-fiction will depend on what I'm researching at the time for a new novel.
Reading is vital, crucial, and essential, for my creative bent to remain consistently in top order.
Have to add -- reading is never a chore for me. It's not something I HAVE to do. It's what I get to do. It's what I LOVE to do.
Always a constant supply of fiction. Usually YA fiction because that's my genre. Non-fiction will depend on what I'm researching at the time for a new novel.
Reading is vital, crucial, and essential, for my creative bent to remain consistently in top order.
Have to add -- reading is never a chore for me. It's not something I HAVE to do. It's what I get to do. It's what I LOVE to do.
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