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Awestruck! That's how I feel. This is is probably my best read of the year. While I had read much written by Bradbury I had never before read Dandelion Wine. It's enchanting! I felt as if I were living in Green Town in 1928. Bradbury has that much power.
Drawing from memory and using his phenomenal imagination and flair for writing, he writes about two brothers and the summer of 1928. They keep a journal of the summer, capturing events as they experience them. Each chapter is a snapshot of the summer. I cried when Douglas was sick, cheered when the old man the boys called the time machine chose his own way to die, and smiled when an old woman chose never to be young.
It's hard to vocalize all the ways this book affects the reader. If you keep any books in this day of electronic reading this is one that you should put on your shelf to read again and again and again. Yup, this is from one who does not usually reread books.
Drawing from memory and using his phenomenal imagination and flair for writing, he writes about two brothers and the summer of 1928. They keep a journal of the summer, capturing events as they experience them. Each chapter is a snapshot of the summer. I cried when Douglas was sick, cheered when the old man the boys called the time machine chose his own way to die, and smiled when an old woman chose never to be young.
It's hard to vocalize all the ways this book affects the reader. If you keep any books in this day of electronic reading this is one that you should put on your shelf to read again and again and again. Yup, this is from one who does not usually reread books.
