Earlier this year, littleforest and I decided to take a trip down to the neighbourhood library. We sat ourselves down in front of the children's fairy tale sections hunting down books on Japanese folklore, and turned up a whole lot of other gems in the process. Here are some of them, because I love children's books illustrations, and I thought I'd share some ( Read more... )

"I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly been able to enjoy it properly. As I was walking up to the church this morning, I passed that row of big oaks by the war memorial--if you remember them--and I thought of another morning, fall a year or two ago, when they were ( Read more... )

Voodoo GirlHer skin is white cloth ( Read more... )

Margaret Drabble"When she was little, Frieda had loved the goblins, the princesses, the old men of the sea, the water maidens, the raven brothers, the haunted woods. Yet the stories were often absurd, often inconsequential. Frieda's literal, logical battleax of a mind had often been bemused and entangled by these tales. She had tried to chop her ( Read more... )

"Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone', like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and ( Read more... )

2007 book list. Because I'm random.
[[* Recommended; *** Highly-recommended; In bold - FAVOURITE]]

01. Frangipani by Celestine Vaite
02. The Green Man - Tales of the Mystic Forest by Various Authors
03. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg *
04. White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
05. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by ( Read more... )

"What kind of fools are they, if they think life is never going to hurt?"

~ From Orfe by Cynthia Voigt