Posts

Showing posts from June, 2017

The Secret Garden

Image
I have been quite inspired to go and read some of the classics, following an article in one of the local papers about a father reading books with heroic girl characters, with his own daughters.  It so happened that I was away for a few days this past week and in the collection of books in the house, I found an old 1956 (from memory) copy of  The Secret Garden. So I decided to read it. Now, two things struck me, One was that I don't recall ever having read the story at all before. And the second was that... I absolutely loved it. From beginning to end and in the middle, I loved it. I did skip over some of the garden description because, you know, short attention span and all that, quite unlike (I am sure) my grandmother who probably read this book when she was a girl and did no such thing as skip pages of botannical description. It was actually a perfect few days to read something like this.  The weather was grand in that cold, early-winter way where the days are lovely, and