Book Blurb:
My Review: 5 stars
Year Of Wonders was a book that stole my heart not only with it’s storyline but with the words that this remarkable author used to tell her tale. It took me a while to pick up March but thankfully I finally did. This book was a phenomenal tale told in two voices from the fictionalized tale of Mr. March from the classic Little Women. The characters longing, physical pains, betrayal and a myriad of other emotions were so well expressed that this short little book were at times taxing on my own emotions. An interesting take on the Civil War, slavery and the toll it took on the families, the soldiers and everyone else. Highly recommend this wonderful novel.
Quotes I liked:
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.”
-“For to know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
-”We married each other that night, there on a bed of fallen pine needles-even today, the scent of pitch-pine stirs me-with Henry’s distant flute for a wedding march and the arching white birch boughs for our basilica. At first, she quivered like an aspen, and I was ashamed at my lack of continence, yet I could not let go of her. I felt like Peleus on the beach, clinging to Thetis, only to find that, suddenly, it was she who held me; that same furnace in her nature that had flared up in anger blazed again, in passion.”
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