Journal Entry 1 by geileis from Goulburn, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, September 04, 2010

This is such a beautiful poetic book, an autobiographical novel which is part of a trilogy. I started reading this book and will take it with me overseas to be finished on the trip and released.

"That was the day we came to the village, in the summer of the last year of the First World War. To a cottage that stood in a half-acre of garden on a steep bank above a lake; a cottage with three floors and a cellar and a treasure in the walls, with a pump and apple trees, syringa and strawberries, rooks in the chimneys, frogs in the cellar, mushrooms on the ceiling, and all for three and sixpence a week.
I don't know where I lived before then. My life began on the carrier's cart which brought me up the long slow hills to the village, and dumped me in the high grass, and lost me." 

Journal Entry 2 by geileis at Goulburn, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Absolutely loved this poetic book and I am now taking it home instead of releasing it overseas to become part of my permanent collection!