So this was a really great book to choose for the Sleepy Hollow square. Taking place in a small town in Massachusetts, Alice Hoffman follows the town founders and descendants of Blackwell, Massachusetts. Mixing in historical incidents as well as some magical realism, the town and the residents feel ...
AudiobookNot exactly what I expected but in the end it was enjoyable. It's really more of a compilation of short stories of people in this one town from it's inception to current times. Slightly magical as most of this author's books but really nothing too overt. The title describes most of the magi...
I’ve let a little more time lapse between reading this and reviewing it than I would like, but I’m determined to review every book I read for the rest of the year, so I’m going to give it a go anyway. The Red Garden is a chronological collection of stories that centers on the inhabitants of a smal...
I love the set up of Alice Hoffman's book The Red Garden. It starts out with a story about the first settlers of a small town called Blackwell. I guess the majority of these newbies did not have survival instincts...except one lady ( that I LOVED).. It's always the one person that the majority de...
This is a book of interconnected stories, giving a snapshot of the lives of individual descendents of a Massachusetts town's founding families. They're told in chronological order, roughly one story per generation. The axis around which they all revolve is the house and (magical? mystical?) garden o...
In just under 300 pages, Alice Hoffman takes the reader on a journey through the history of a small town in Massachusetts, Bearsville, aka Blackwood, aka Blackwell, which was settled quite by accident. Four families, traveling with William Grady and his wife, Hillie, become lost in a snowstorm and f...
This was a great read. It started slow, but it picked up momentum very quickly.This is the story of a town in Massachusetts; Blackwell, Massachusetts. It's a series of connected stories of the founders of the town and the lives of the people who lived there through modern times. I didn't enjoy al...
This was an interesting novel. Its the story of a town, a family, all centered around a garden. It begins with the founding of the town of Blackwell, originally Bearsville. It tells the 200+ year history of the descendants of Hallie Brady, who founded the two, and whose garden with blood red soil tu...
Wonderful, magical stories about the inhabitants of a small town in Massachusetts near the Berkshire Mountains. The book begins with the founders and encompasses over 100 years of life, death, and mystery. I devoured this book, as I do all of Alice Hoffman's novels. Beautiful.
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