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Bookoween 13: Deep dark woods
Who is the mysterious woman in the woods?
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Bookoween 13: Deep dark woods
Who is the mysterious woman in the woods?
@lilymaidofgallifrey look, I received the books you sent today, and I found a lighthouse book at a library sale. ☺️
February 1st: Cover love
Although it was recommended by Waterstones, for me it was actually cover-love at first sight.
The Mermaid in the Millpond de Lucy Strange
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss ¡Saludos queridos rinconeros y felices lecturas! Hace mucho que Lizette y yo no escribimos uno de estos posts. No porque no hayamos estado leyendo. Eso nunca. Sino, quizás, porque estábamos muy distraídas con lo que estábamos leyendo. Pero, finalmente, hoy les traemos los…
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the secret of nightingale wood
Hogyan szerettessük meg az olvasást a gyerekekkel?
Hogyan szerettessük meg az olvasást a gyerekekkel?
Amikor az ember rákap az olvasás ízére, akkor aztán már le sem lehet robbantani a könyvekről. No de hogy is tudunk idáig eljutni?A válasz egyszerű, olyan könyvekkel, amik pörgősek, végig ébren tartják a figyelmet és olvasóként tudunk velük, vagy tartalmuk egy részével azonosulni. Manó Könyvek, 2022 Budapest, 302 oldal A lányoknak jó szívvel ajánlom Lucy Strange: A nővérek átkát. A könyv a 13…
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Erin’s Reading Log 2022, Entry #4
The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange (Audiobook read by Lucy Strange)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Children’s Lit, Novel
Rating: General / Teen
Published: 2016
Tags: Historical Fiction, Setting - Post WWI / The Great War, Time Period - 1910s, POV First Person, Death, Grief, Trauma, Family, Depression, Postpartum Depression, Mental Health, Women’s Health, Medical Neglect, Medical Experimentation, Suicide, Period-Typical Sexism, Ableism, Drugs, Loss of Autonomy
Characters: Henrietta “Henry” Abbott
Summary: 1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees - or thinks she sees - in the shadows of their new home, Hope House.
All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden.
One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world...
I read this story in audiobook format and Lucy Strange is a wonderful writer as well as a wonderful narrator.
The book itself is written beautifully with clear inspiration from early children’s classics such as The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and other similar stories. The writing has a certain magical quality to it that weaves a rich and engaging narrative. You don’t find many Children’s books written in this style anymore which really does make it feel like you’re reading something contemporary to the time period in which the story is set instead of a novel published is 2016.
The topics covered in this book are very similar to the short story, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Henry’s mother experiences a major depressive episode after the death of her eldest son and the birth of her youngest daughter, and her treatment, while historically accurate, is infuriating to read about. The Secret of Nightingale Wood explores the effects of poor medical treatment and dismissal of mental health and women’s health through the lense of a young daughter trying to protect her mother from the very flagrant abuse of their doctor. There are some fairly dark topics handled throughout the book but more than anything this is a story about grief and how we move forward from tragedy and loss.
If you enjoyed Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson or - for a more modern setting - The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall, than you’ll probably really enjoy this book as well.
Both the book and the audiobook version get a 8/10 from me.
Read: 15/01/2022