![]() ![]() But more than anything else, doors are change. You see, doors are many things: fissures and cracks, ways between, mysteries and borders. She knew the land in the way a child knows the land, with an intimacy and fantasy few adults have ever managed. ![]() ![]() It was one of those things you want so much it burns, so you keep it deep in the center of yourself like a banked coal. These are quotes for those who seek to wander. ![]() It shows Harrow’s mastery down to the sentence level. Many of these quotes hold such power, within the context of the book and in the quote itself. It’s only fitting I utilize the month of January to return to this beautiful book and list a few quotes that spoke to me. It’s also a portal fantasy about finding doors to worlds that belong to us, as well as building a better world in the one that we’re in. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is a historical fantasy novel about stories and love. It was a good type of sob, a “the-heart-of-this-book-connected-to-the-heart-of-me” type of sob. After reading the last page, I curled into a fetal position, the book pressed to my chest, and sobbed. Harrow.Įver since I read the summary of this book, long before its release, I wanted it. It’s January, and as such it is the perfect time to show love and adoration to one of my favorite books published in 2019: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. ![]()
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It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Killingly by Katharine Beutner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first person point of view adds to this vibrant tale of the homesteading life, a life filled with pleasures and many privations, and subject to the incredible force of nature. Hattie is a remarkable character, and a joy to spend time with. ![]() In the environs of Vida, Montana, anti-German feeling is growing, making life for the Muellers very uncomfortable. Chapters begin with excerpts from Hattie’s letters to a friend who is fighting in France, and the news from home often brings bad tidings of others she knows who are soldiers. However, the war makes itself felt throughout this novel. She finds her neighbors, Perilee and Karl Mueller and their children, to be welcoming and eager to help her out. New Goodreads Giveaway Big Sky Bachelor by Lesley Ann McDaniel. But since Aunt Ivy has decided it is time for her to leave school and begin working in a boardinghouse, she decides to strike out on her own. Filed Under: Big Sky Bachelor, Montana, Saving Grace 4 Comments. ![]() Hattie is only sixteen years old-dare she take on this challenge? The property needs to be fenced and forty acres need to be cultivated, and she just has ten months left to do it. While she is living with a distant cousin, Uncle Holt, and his wife, Aunt Ivy, in Arlington, Iowa, in 1917, she finds out that she has inherited the 320-acre Montana homestead claim of her mother’s brother. After the death of her parents, Hattie Brooks has spent her life moving from one relative to another, many of whom would just as soon not have her. ![]() ![]() ![]() She never smoked, like the protagonist mother. I am the daughter of a mother who recently passed away from lung cancer. My life, like all lives, mysterious, irrevocable, sacred, so very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. That seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water would be enough, that it was everything. I knew only that I didn't need to eat with my bare hands anymore. Now in 9 years, that man and I would have a son named Carver and a year later, a daughter named after my mother, Bobbi. I'll marry a man in a spot almost visible from where I was standing. 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