Window seat!!!

[osprey_archer]

In a hotel this evening - it takes a long time to get to Canada - and WE HAVE A WINDOW SEAT. It overlooks a distant cornfields and a forest and a thicket of wild yellow flowers, and I have the perfect book to read while I sit there, Linnets and Valerians. I do not intend to leave until I am dragged out by wild horses and/or the promise of pie from Perkins.

We are also back in the land of Perkins! It is pretty exciting.

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Nice ;o)

[kikainausagi.livejournal.com]

I love Linnets and Valerians!! :D And indeed, it is the perfect book to read while curled up on a scenic window seat.

Linnets and Valerians was one of those books off my mother's shelf that I read and re-read when I was young and sick, or bored, or had run out of library books. It has inspired in me a lifelong urge to panel a hallway in my house in dark wood, and hide a door in it.

Based on Linnets and Valerians and The Little White Horse, I had a brief period where I tried to read more of Elizabeth Gouge's work, but her books for adults lack the everyday mysticism I found so charming in her children's literature. I still like her writing style, but I find myself wading grimly through the uplifting Christian messages, which seems rather counter to their intent.

Emma!!

[silverusagi]

I know you're probably still on vacation, and won't see this until you get back, but look what's happened!

http://www.themarysue.com/emma-approved-webseries/

Now, if they just have the same genderswap idea we did... But I'm excited to see Emma from these creators, even though Welcome to Sandition didn't end up interesting me.