The Blue Castle
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I waited till I was forty-five to read Anne of Green Gables; I wish I'd met Anne when I was ten, Anne that great mix of passion for life and knowledge about the harshness and inevitability of disappointment.
So when I heard an online bookgroup member say The Blue Castle was her favorite book, I couldn't wait to read it.
Valancy Stirling is and isn't Anne. Valancy, at twenty-nine, has had a non-life life. Bound by the restrictions of her controlling family, Valancy feels ugly and unloved and superfluous. All that keeps her alive are her dreams of a mythical Blue Castle. Fear keeps her in check until she learns she is dying. That death sentence, paradoxically, frees her, and changes the course of her life.
So when I heard an online bookgroup member say The Blue Castle was her favorite book, I couldn't wait to read it.
Valancy Stirling is and isn't Anne. Valancy, at twenty-nine, has had a non-life life. Bound by the restrictions of her controlling family, Valancy feels ugly and unloved and superfluous. All that keeps her alive are her dreams of a mythical Blue Castle. Fear keeps her in check until she learns she is dying. That death sentence, paradoxically, frees her, and changes the course of her life.
Journal Entry 2 by debnance at Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas USA on Thursday, April 28, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (4/30/2005 UTC) at Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas USA
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