Helpful Score: 7
This is one of my all-time life favorites. It is very beautifully, and descriptively, written. I have written notes in the margins and underlined wonderful passages and shared them with my best friend, who did the same in my book when SHE read it -- This is a must read!
Don't judge this book by the movie. It did NOT do this book justice. It is more the WRITING that is wonderful rather than the story in itself, although the story is good. For example, something that sticks in my mind is when she described the passing of the year as something like this: It was a green time, then an orange time, and a white time and then a green time again.... written much more beautifully than I wrote it, but I remember that the words were so creative and descriptive. You could smell the scent of the dirt roads, and hear the hurricane's winds. Read it!
Don't judge this book by the movie. It did NOT do this book justice. It is more the WRITING that is wonderful rather than the story in itself, although the story is good. For example, something that sticks in my mind is when she described the passing of the year as something like this: It was a green time, then an orange time, and a white time and then a green time again.... written much more beautifully than I wrote it, but I remember that the words were so creative and descriptive. You could smell the scent of the dirt roads, and hear the hurricane's winds. Read it!
Helpful Score: 5
I loved this book! It was written several decades ago but the author's voice is contemporary and very sensual. I could almost smell the flowers, feel the sunshine, etc. I'd like to read others by her.
Helpful Score: 1
Beautifully written, to be read with the heart. I loved it.
