The Night Circus
This was true magic, the making and unmaking of the world with paper and ink.
Alice Hoffman • Magic Lessons: A Prequel to Practical Magic
In times like these, we are all in the process of transformation, and so is the world around us. The Great Work, the magnum opus, is the work we are all engaged in, whether we know it or not. The Great Work is the reassembling of the tiny shards of light into which the universe was shattered at the Creation. Every story we tell, every poem we write... See more
Paul Kingsnorth • The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
behind you.” I take the two-track away from the orchard and towards the woods until I find the smallest break in the trees, a path I know to look for only because I’ve come this way a thousand times. It’s like stepping into a book, one turn and everything changes: cool instead of hot, dark instead of light. Instead of cherry trees, eighty-foot heml
... See moreAnn Patchett • Tom Lake: The Sunday Times bestseller - a BBC Radio 2 and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick
Some of the levers are names, some of them are stories, some of them are simply pictures or feelings, with no words attached. They are happy and sad, inspirational and cautionary, meaningful and trivial, but they all have one thing in common — each and every one of them has the power to move me…I mean things which can move me — which can impart mom... See more