so-soWitch Child follows fourteen-year-old Mary, who flees England in 1659 for the New World near Salem, Massachusetts. Though she hopes for a fresh start, suspicion still follows as the town faces hardship and fear. I was hoping for something a bit more witchy, but it‘s more about survival and harsh colonial life. Told through Mary‘s discovered journal, it starts slow, yet by the end I was curious to see what happens next and would read the sequel.
pickMaud had a tough four years in this volume! She can be so funny and relatable, then occasionally say something strange or slightly racist. It's tempting to say she's a product of her time, but I think it's more accurate to say she lacked self awareness sometimes. I find these journals fascinating. It's such an interesting record of life in this time period.
Good gracious, Maud! That's a lot of racism in two consecutive sentences. ? "We seemed to be motoring through a river there and back but in the little Jew theatre itself we spent hours in another world. The film was The Birth of a Nation and it was very fine."
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Amy is currently working her way through the Anne books so I grabbed this for her when I saw it at at charity shop.
I saw this post on Instagram from someone I follow and here‘s my comment on this post.
“Shall I ever write again one of those sentences that gives me intense pleasure?” (Among her next to last entries before her suicide)
So sad how she considered herself to be a poor writer. She considered writing to be her therapy. She felt she had to do it in order to live. This is a theme in her books especially “To the Lighthouse” which was autobiographical.
Prompt: #DearDiary
#Fallings
