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The beautiful oil paintings have a gloomy dark brown tint that adds to the melancholy mood of the text. This winner of the 1997 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Medal effectively uses the subdued pictures to compliment the text. I found this to be a powerful book, even though it is written and illustrated with a gentle touch.
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Sanjay
Six years before it was summer, and the world was at peace. On a lark, she's decided to take up her British pen pal's invitation to a three week stay in the Oxfordshire countryside. Robin Fennel puzzles and fasicinates her. The middle part of the book takes us back six years, to that idyllic time. Katherine and Robin's relationship does not fit into any standard romantic paradigm. It is all too subtle for that, and I'd love to see this exquisitely written novel turned into one of those wonderfully atmospheric films the British excell at.
Once again, it is good to read a World War II story, free of latter day cliches, and the teary-eyed romanticism typical of its own period. This book is rather more rewarding than Larkin's first effort, Jill, in that the lead character -- he does a wonderful job with a woman, by the way -- is more complex, mature and knowing than the hapless John Kemp of Jill.
There is also a hint towards a happy ending, though the ultimate outcome would depend on both characters surviving the war. A beautiful book and a pleasure.
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Anyways, it's a super gift book if you have the money, and it's well worth by if, like me, you love photography of all sorts.
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One of the author's tips is that people don't buy rooms and appliances, they buy something that rings a deep emotional bell. He talks about how to find that bell for your house, and how to ring it for the prospective buyer.
We loved our house because we set it up for quality time with our kids. We decided to ring that bell. We took out a ratty breakfast bar from the kitchen and replaced it with an old oak table and chairs. The house had an add-on bedroom you could only get to through another bedroom. We changed the middle room into a library with bookshelves filled with childrens books. Instead of tearing down the treehouse we spruced it up. We put wooden toys on the workbench in the shed. Everything said, "quality time with the kids." It worked. This is just one of the great tips. There are so many more we couldn't begin to use them all.