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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jo
Virginia
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 Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 05:07:44 AM
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Wonderful visualization in these passages.
I think this descriptive writing is too flowery for Walt Whitman.
Too wordy and non-rhyming for Emily Dickinson.
Can you tell us the region or country of which this author is writing? Or, if the author is male or female?
Finally, are YOU the author? Just a wild guess...but you've got me curious to know (and read) the entire book now!
Jo
"There are no strangers here, only friends you've yet to meet." |
Edited by - Hideaway Farmgirl on Jan 22 2007 05:08:34 AM |
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ktknits
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kathy
Northwest Indiana
USA
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Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 05:24:09 AM
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My guess (based wholly on the hint!).....
Is it from Henry David Thoreau--Walden?
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
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Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 11:55:16 AM
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Okay, another hint, it is not a man - and was written in the United States
Here is another passage that is especially moving -
"Warm days come off and on in May. Islands in the ocean. The great rose fountain blooms with small sweet flowers. Warm heavenly sweetness in which one drifts, not drowning. Nostalgia comes. A sadness for all the lost, the unreturning summers of childhood. The cooing of the doves and the scent of roses brings it on. It'sharp and sweet. It stabs into the heart. Tears come for all the unreturning dead. For the dear aunts; for their love, for the days of summer, the long warm days of roses that would return each year, that would return - that as far as we dumb little kids could see,would return forever and ever. Aunt Mary...Aunt Edith...Aunt Elizabeth...Aunt Alice, oh, especially Aunt Alice. Why isn't there a heaven for such people - some reward for their lovely lives, for kindness beyond imagining; some compensation for the long sickness and the long death? There's no Oakland, no family home any more. Only the cemetery, Oakhill. So snap to it and appreciate the living. Live the summers now. That's all you'll ever have. They're all anybody will ever have. Wipe the fog off your glasses and you'll see the living people around you. This is their now. This is all there is. Be kind now."
I don't think I could have said this any better - she is a wonderful author and you will be glad you have found this one!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
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Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Sweet Harvest Homestead
True Blue Farmgirl
279 Posts
Lindy
Stanfield
NC
USA
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
2552 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 12:45:45 PM
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had never heard of her before. I find it interesting after doing some research that her work was compared a bit to Walden.
I think I know who it is,of course I did research online..as I was intrigued. Have never read anything by her before.
I think Tasha is close on a part of it..but I think the name is different. oh gosh don't ya just love a mystery? LOL
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 2:16:12 PM
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Kathy- You have sent me searching, searching for this incredible writer. I have a few thoughts, but nothing concrete so far. Here are a few that have come to mind- Sarah Teasdale, Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Flannery O'Connor, Pearl Buck, Eudora Welty. I am stuck a bit on the Oakland reference- now I am thinking Southern author. Aargh- I hope someone comes up with the correct name soon!! I am dying to know who it is !
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Edited by - Mumof3 on Jan 23 2007 08:06:26 AM |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 2:34:17 PM
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am I on track for saying this gal wrote about 10-11 books? and the book from which these passages are taken is referred to as a "forgotten classic"?
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 2:37:21 PM
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ya know Karin when I saw the reference to a cemetery in Alabama, I was thinking..hmm...Fried Green Tomatoes gal? but then it didn't fit the style...although it fit the area..ha.
Kathy certainly gave us a stumper..but what should we expect from a gal that writes book reviews? hee hee.She's gonna make us work for it! LOL
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 2:38:34 PM
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since I won Miz Frannies last time..I am going to wait and see who can get pretty darn close on this one. I'm pretty sure that I know who it is now, but in fairness, I shan't tell.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
1553 Posts |
Posted - Jan 23 2007 : 05:22:36 AM
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Aaarghh! The suspense in killing me and I don't have time to go to the library and enlist help from the staff there. Will keep watching to see who figures this out.
Jo
"There are no strangers here, only friends you've yet to meet." |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Jan 23 2007 : 08:40:34 AM
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Carson McCullers? I am really reaching into the far depths of my brain remembering books I have read. SOMEONE please guess who this is!!!
Karin |
Edited by - Mumof3 on Jan 23 2007 08:41:18 AM |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
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ktknits
True Blue Farmgirl
582 Posts
Kathy
Northwest Indiana
USA
582 Posts |
Posted - Jan 23 2007 : 11:46:50 AM
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OK, one more guess--is it from Rural Hours by Susan Fenimore Cooper?
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
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Posted - Jan 23 2007 : 1:18:13 PM
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Nope, not Susan Fenimore Cooper -
Here is another passage -
"As the winter cold deepens and tightens, the world, without snow, begins to turn from grey to white. The pond freezes over, is ice-white, milk glass. The willows turn white. Rocks ring. The sands of the creek bank seperate. The gravel is dry and white. Everything's dry as though burned by the sun. Grass white. Cattails white. The sycamore trees are great white bones. Everything's shrunk as far as it will shrink. Stones are smaller. Rocks shrivel. It tries to snow and the snow is only a silver dust in the air. One's lungs prickle. Cheeks get solid as tallow. Fingernails blue-white. It is a world burned white by cold"
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 06:22:08 AM
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OK, ladies, let's go raid Kathy's bookshelf and figure out who this is!
Kathy, maybe giving us an ISBN number would help??? (okay, that's cheating.)
Jo
"There are no strangers here, only friends you've yet to meet." |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 12:15:09 PM
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Jo - that is the first time I have laughed in days - and I needed to!Okay here is another hint - She was a Pulitizer Prize-winning author - and here is another passage
"A silver hoarfrost on everything one morning. The trees were wave after wave of silver to the horizon, where they met a silver-blue sky. Every small oval leaf of the honeysuckle and forsythia was fringed with silver. The hackberry twigs, delicate as cobwebs. Leaves fell straight down. The sun began to melt the frost. The green leaves had an icy shine."
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2007 : 1:34:31 PM
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Oh my gosh. This is really going to bug me now!! Let's see- I know Edith Wharton won a Pulitzer. As well as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings- one of my favorites. Hmmmmm. Research, research.
You are certainly bringing out the sleuth in me Kathy!!
Karin |
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kathy
New Jersey
USA
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shmeg
True Blue Farmgirl
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Megan
Granville
Ohio
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - Jan 27 2007 : 07:09:34 AM
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Jan 27 2007 : 07:36:58 AM
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I thought of her as well! I am going to try one more time and then I just give up!! How about Edna St. Vincent Millay? I had been thinking novelists when poets popped into my brain! I don't think this is a modern voice we are looking for.
We may need another question, Kathy!! Honestly, I do believe that my brain has turned to mush over this one!!
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EnchantedWoodsGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
959 Posts
Kathy
New Jersey
USA
959 Posts |
Posted - Jan 27 2007 : 07:39:52 AM
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Okay, I will post another question later today. This hard one to guess is the book The Inland Island by Josephine W. Johnson - she also wrote the book Now in November (which I just ordered)You have to have this on your farmgirl bookshelf!
You all tried really really hard!
Kathy of the Enchanted Wood
http://enchantedwoodmusings.blogspot.com/
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