Quite good but the last few chapters bored me to death
She wrote & lived with dignity. That's what I admire most on this book. It's so easy for journal/memoir writing to go down the self pity, rage and anger way; some of my own journal writing will be a perfect examples of it; also Joan Didion's [b:Blue Nights|10252302|Blue Nights|Joan Didion|http://d20...
Interesting story of a life and exploration of what makes a life. I've seen this described as "gentle" and I guess that a way of describing. There is not the usual narrative arc. It's more about a friend musing on another friend/mentor/teacher's life. It's a somewhat aristocratic life, but one fille...
lovely story of the gentleman cat***Literary writing about a cat.***All of my friends and relations have cats, so you can imagine what everyone got as a gift for the holidays 2008.
I had been so looking forward to this book, but I was the tiniest bit disappointed in it. Seemed to be a lot of whining...just like me....
May Sarton is getting on in her years and living with her choices to live a mostly solitary existence and write. Her reflections on her work, art, and her garden are more than enough to make me want to go out and find the other things she has written.
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