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Of all the books I've ever read, I most wish I had written this one. Carolyn Draper O'Gorman read The Secret Garden to her fourth grade class (including me) in 1964. I have read it at least once a year ever since. It is a period piece in regard to the ...more |
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“bottle trees in the front yard? That’s her house. She puts those bottles out to catch any bad spirits that might come creepin’ around her yard. Guess it must work; she’s the least haunted person I believe I ever met.”
― The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
― The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
“Sometimes she’d cry a little there in her sweetly decorated room, wishing she had a sibling or two to take on part of the weight of her parents’ high expectations for her.”
― The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
― The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
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The ups and downs of the writing process - intertwined with the vagaries of daily life, and its travails - were met head-on by this remarkable woman.
The result was not a bunch of unfinished chapters, scribbled notes, and the like. Rather, the result was "The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree" - her debut novel.
Congratulations indeed, India!! May your work soar!!
J.M. Hopkins