We're doing the Night Market at the Toledo Botanical Gardens tonight, so I'm taking the opportunity to run around and take fun product photos. 🥰
#Studio42Books
We're doing the Night Market at the Toledo Botanical Gardens tonight, so I'm taking the opportunity to run around and take fun product photos. 🥰
#Studio42Books
It had been several years since my last reread of this one, and this spring it just felt right to pick it up. There is SO much to love about this delightful book, and I loved revisiting it. I will say that at one point it feels like Burnett kind of gets a little weird about “the Magic“ but overall this is still a heart book.
Pictured with some of the flats of annuals I purchased today... getting ready to get my own garden going!!!
#Secret(s) 🤫🤐 #SpringSkies 🌸🌼🌺🌻🌨️☀️
#BookNerd 🤓📚💙
Look at this cool version of The Secret Garden that I got from ThriftBooks!! I have also always wanted to read this adventure series of wild cats so I got the first 3 of those also.
I love the garden in this book, and the talk of bloom and growth and renewal. ❤️
#SundayFunday Hope you all have a wonderful day, and Happy Easter if you celebrate! Remember to tag me in your posts!
#litsolace mood board #naturalitsy
I‘ve read a lot of classics but to answer this question, I‘m sharing the tagged book that I read in 2023. This book was published in 1911 but the version of it that I read is from Audible. I enjoyed it.
#SundayFunday
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
#TheSecretGarden #FrancesHodgsonBurnett #WomensHistoryMonth #book #books #booknerd #Classics #Fiction #Childrens #YoungAdult #HistoricalFiction #MiddleGrade #Fantasy #Audiobook 🖤🖤
I ❤️ my grandfather‘s family farm. They moved to a smaller 🏡 after my great aunt Jenny died in ‘88. It was a very free range childhood & the garden was like the 1 in the tagged 📖 but with 🦚 & a pet 🦘 called 🧚. My fav smells were the mint growing around a🚰 in the garden, the 🍊 in the orchard & the smell of Aunty Jenny‘s sister, great Aunty Marjory‘s fruit toast & 🧈 when my Nan would take me to visit her. She also had a camomile lawn!
I liked the message of this book: the power of your thoughts. That's not a new thing, but it's also something that I always love to read about. I also loved gardening they did and talking about flowers etc.
It's clear that this is an old story and some phrases wouldn't be acceptable nowadays.
Both Mary & Colin had amazing character arc, I loved how different the were at the end of the book compared to characters at the beginning.
A colourful book display! I had fun browsing the different titles 📚
“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.”
This was my only read for November, but I still think it would have won. It‘s such a beautiful story and has the power to remind me of what it felt like to be a kid. I adore the characters, especially Dicken. Would love a story about the trio all grown up.
#12Booksof2023
When my littlest was young I read her an abridged version of this book. But this was the first time I have read the full text. It‘s such a beautiful book and one can tell the author was as avid gardener herself.
This little fellow was in our garden this morning feasting on figs in the fig tree.
A proper nostalgic reread of one of my childhood favourites for #castthedie #promptmaze
I didn‘t remember the fact that the dialogue in ‘Yorkshire‘ is absolutely hilarious 🙈 also loved reading about the moors especially now I live on the edge of them (although Lancashire not Yorkshire! 🌹)
#wintergames #snowangels
There is so much going on in this delightful Victorian children‘s novel! Class distinctions, hybridity, gender distinctions…but I have always found it a lovely little story about the power of friendship and positive thinking. Mary‘s parents die of cholera in India. She is sent back to England to live with an uncle she‘s never met. A garden that has been locked-up for 10 years is waiting to work its magic on the manor‘s inhabitants.
I enjoyed rereading this with the #NaturaLitsy group.
#BookSpinBingo #NaturaLitsy #RushAThon
@TheAromaofBooks @AllDebooks @Andrew65 @DieAReader
This was one of the few books that was read aloud to me after I was old enough to read myself, and while this isn‘t the only time I‘ve reread it, reading and discussing it with #Naturalitsy really clarified how my impressions of it have changed over time. It‘s also one of the only books I have my original childhood copy of, so this read was a wonderfully nostalgic experience. @AllDebooks
Cassandra‘s least favorite thing is when I try to sneak tea AND a physical book into her morning petting time. There is just no way for me to be paying enough attention to her! #catsoflitsy
#Naturalitsy
Our last week in The Secret Garden 💚
When I was little, I really loved the 1993 film so I was excited to read this one. It is the story of young spoiled Mary who did not grow up with love. When taken in by her uncle, she learns how to take care of herself and to think about others while discovering a secret garden. I really enjoyed how Mary and the others grew as the story progressed. It is not my favorite classic but I can see why people love it. 3.5 ⭐️
#Naturalitsy
December #buddyread discussion thread
🌿 Spring has sprung and the source of crying is discovered.
🌿 How did you find these changes in Mary?
🌿 Still enjoying the story and Mary's continuing development?
All welcome to join in. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.
#Naturalitsy
A little help translating Yorkshire dialect for thi 🤪😅
#Naturalitsy #buddyread
Reading this, I did wonder how you are coping with the Yorkshire dialect. I'm a Yorkshire lass born and bred, so I find it oddly comforting, even though no-one I know talks like this.
Thoughts? On the secret garden? On Dickon? On Mary's emerging engagement with her surroundings and people?
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#Naturalitsy November #buddyread
Week 2 - reading schedule. A discussion thread will be posted on Saturday. All welcome to join us.
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#Naturalitsy November #Buddyread
Discussion thread - Chapters 1 - 6
Well, I must say rereading this childhood favourite as an adult and parent is a very different experience.
🌷 Are you revisiting the book?
🌷 What are your thoughts on reading as an adult?
🌷 What did you make of Mary?
🌷 Did you struggle with the colonialist attitudes?
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"He found a half-drowned young crow another time an‘ he brought it home, too, an‘ tamed it. It‘s named Soot because it‘s so black, an‘ it hops an‘ flies about with him everywhere.”
Same, Dickon, same.
This is Herbert. He follows me around.
#naturalitsy
Repost for @AllDebooks
#Naturalitsy #Buddyread starts today with chapters 1 - 6 over the week. Discussion thread will be posted on Saturday.
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#Naturalitsy #Buddyread starts today with chapters 1 - 6 over the week. I will post a discussion thread on Saturday.
Oh hello, old friend. I'm so excited to revisit this childhood favourite with you all. 💚🌷🌻🌹💚
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@LitsyEvents
I can never remember which dust jacket this edition used to have, but as soon as I get to this illustration in chapter 2 I‘m always transported straight back to childhood. #naturalitsy #buddyread @AllDebooks
I pulled out my original copy of The Secret Garden for the #naturalitsy November #buddyread. I think it's from 1994, at least 🤩🤩. I'm really looking forward to rereading this one.
@AllDebooks
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everyone said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
#Naturalitsy #Buddyread
Here's the reading schedule for our November read, The Secret Garden. Starting 6th November, a discussion thread will be posted on Saturdays.
All are welcome to join in.
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🎄Please note my next post for December/January reads -
https://litsy.com/p/MzI1WWJZaTR5 🎄
@LitsyEvents
#BookSpinBingo
Last month worked well, so I'm repeating the tbr theme. Got to get that pile down, ready for you know who...Ssh! 🎅
I'll possibly squeeze a few more #buddyreads in the free slots, if I get chance.
@TheAromaofBooks
Hard to believe I had never read this classic. It was a cute story, although I had some trouble with the Yorkshire dialect.
I found 'The Secret Garden' in my school library, inspiring my love for nature and resilience. i read this many times when i was a kid after finsing it and it brought so much joy into my life
“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.“ - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett's “The Secret Garden“ is about getting better and finding yourself. In the classroom, it's perfect for discussing resilience and personal growth. You can even do projects related to gardening and plants.
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November #buddyread - A childhood favourite
I can't wait to revisit this with you. I hope you're all set to evoke #nostalgia
If it's new to you, I hope you love it as much as I did as a child.
I'll only tag in this first post. Be sure to check my following post re December's winner! 🏆 I will post a link in the comments.
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Here‘s my review for a book I finished reading last night at 3 AM.
This book works for the following prompt:
Persephone | Goddess of Springtime and Queen of the Underworld: A book taking place in spring - #greekmythologychallenge