pickThis was a good, quick read. I love his descriptions of food in these books. A nice sequel to Dandelion Wine.
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pickThis was a good, quick read. I love his descriptions of food in these books. A nice sequel to Dandelion Wine.
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It's really Bradbury. It's really not Dandelion Wine. Nothing ever is.
pickA fitting allegory for the circle of life - altho moments made me chuckle/feel uncomfortable. Definitely a product of its time but the moral is always relevant.
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pickSequel to Dandelion Wine 🍷- love this audio. Doug and Tom Spaulding resist summer‘s end so they stir up what trouble they can! They declare ‘war‘ on the old men of Greentown and the excitement begins!
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“He got up and went to the mirror to see what sadness looked like and there it was.”
“Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to... When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.”
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.”
Above are pix of the ravine in Greentown (Waukegan) Illinois. On the left is the bridge Lavinia Nebbs crossed trying to elude The Lonely One in the summer of 1928 (Dandelion Wine).
pickIt was 95 today, 96 forecast for tomorrow, with humidity through the roof. Will feel like like 100, I think.Tokyo is a steam bath! This is a coda of sorts to Dandelion Wine;life‘s wheel keeps on turning. Poignant and bittersweet.
pickI read Dandelion Wine for the first time last year not knowing much about it and was surprised by how good it was. What makes this work so well is that it was written 55 years after that one and seeing him revisit those characters and write about growing up and aging from the perspective of an old man. By comparison to DW it's sort of a letdown but it could never have been the same book just like you can't go back to a certain summer again.
From Neil Gaiman's short story above: "His name will once more become synonymous with small American towns at Hallowe'en, when the leaves skitter across the sidewalk like frightened birds, or with Mars, or with love." Ray Bradbury has been one of my favorites since I read "Something Wicked" in middle school. Every October for a few years I've read his books. It seems like the most fitting month to read his work and remember him. #bradburyoctober
