Books on the Menu

Night Waking

@brittarnhild

I have already written about the first book by Sarah Moss which I read, Names of the Sea. After finishing it I knew I wanted to read more from Moss´pen, and a search on amazon gave a couple of results. I bought Night Waking, and have read it the past week.

The book is about Anna Bennett who is spending the summer on a fictional Hebridean island with her husband who is busy with his research work, and their two small boys. The youngest of the boys awakes every night, giving Anna too little sleep. And while trying to cope with her everydays, she also has her own personal goal, to write a book.

One day, while planting apple trees in their garden, Anna and her husband find a buried baby skeleton, and now Anna not only has to struggle with the present and her lack of sleep, her future and what to do with her life, but also the past.....who was this baby and why did it die.

 

I had a hard start with Night Waking. I had loved Names of the Sea so much, and was a little disapponted, as it took a long time to actually get anywhere. But once I had founght myself over the first obstacle, I got caught by the story, and could hardly put the book down.

Not as good as Names of the Sea, but still a great pastime read.

 

.....and some day I would love to move to a small island.....

 

 

Is it possible to drink a book like noble wine

@brittarnhild

I had seen the book in the bookstores but hesitated to buy it. It was in hardcover only and new hardcover books are expensive, it was January and as always I start the year telling myself not to buy any more books.....but then, after a few days I know that this is impossible, and it is not ME. Me is a book buyer, a book lover and a reader. With books on the menu for every meal. So next time I entered the bookstore I knew which book was a must.

As soon as I was home I started to read it, and as soon as I started to read I knew that this book had been waiting for me.

The book I am talking about is The Greenhouse by the Icelandic Audur Ava Olafsdottir, and the book is about a young man who leaves Iceland after his flowerloving mother has died in a tragic car accident. He takes a cutting of his mother´s favorite rose with him and travels south in Europe to work in an ancient monastery rose garden. In Iceland he leaves a baby daughter, and the mother of the baby.......

It all sounds so bleak when I write it like this. But the beauty in the book must be experienced by the reader in you, the artist in you, the you in you.

Is it possible to drink a book like noble wine?
Yes, it is. And the best part of it - you can drink it again and again and again and......

 

 

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The photos are from the Municipal Rose Garden in Rome.