Dandelion Wine, a Novel | 
pick🌞 Each chapter is a time capsule of a summer day, like each bottle of dandelion wine. Simply lovely nostalgia.
Highly recommended for a seasonal read as a reminder to RELISH 😉 summer.
Note: do not go into this book expecting a traditional plotted novel. Each chapter is a vignette with overlapping characters and setting.
Aside from Fahrenheit 451 in another lifetime, I don‘t believe I‘ve read anything else by Bradbury. This is the choice for my next IRL bookclub; one of the members rereads it each spring. 🤞🏾 I‘m not usually too keen on child protagonists, but I have read in reviews the language is enchanting.
I'm going to give this a try. I've been having a hard time settling on a book to read.
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so-soI was so confused like 75% of the time, yet I couldn‘t stop listening. The ways the words flowed together was poetic. Bradbury has an incredible way with words, in a way that feels deep. Deeper than a usual way, though sometimes too deep to understand. This story was about a boy going through an intense summer. Between the happiness machine, an old love waxing and waning for the next life, and something about grief.
1* “Energy or matter can neither be created nor destroyed”, ergo it seems unthinkable that the end is really the end. Or at least we console ourselves with that thought. The finest, most lovely description of after-death I‘ve ever heard is in the tagged book in the chapter about great grandmother ‘s death.
2* Reincarnation v time travel-compatible or synonymous???
3* Is it possible to function without ego?Can one be successful without it?Are we⬇️
1-Designs, Mom, things to make, places I‘ve loved, the past, the future, strategies, desserts, my husband RIP, ad infinitum….
2-The tagged makes me dream about simplicity, friendship, love, life, death, hope, forgiveness
Great questions Lisa ❤️❤️❤️
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pickThis is book 1 of 3 in the Greentown series. Each time I read or listen, I find something new. Every piece of life‘s dreams, loves, fears, and even dying is celebrated poetically here. Reading this story about Greentown will make you feel fully alive!
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pick#HumbleHarvest Day 7: Dandelion #Wine. Ray Bradbury is a gift. Each time I read him, I look at the world through a poet‘s eyes. Everything is magnified as I taste Dandelion Wine and its summer energies filling every fibre of my being with sunlight and starshine. Salut. My full review of this unforgettable book: https://wp.me/pDlzr-5iL
November 7 #HumbleHarvest Wine 🍷 I love dandelion wine, my mom made the best. I do t believe I have read this one from Ray Bradbury @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Today on YouTube I talk rereading my *least* favorite assigned reading for school.
https://youtu.be/6bCbkLdZeAU
Ignoring the specific prompts (sorry, @Eggs !), and just doing a sort-of catch-all Top 3:
1. “Stuff your eyes with wonder.” - Ray Bradbury
2. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still maintain the ability to function.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “You can‘t learn the secrets of the universe on an empty stomach.” - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
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so-soIt was very slow and read more like short stories. I think if it was a book of short stories I would have liked it more. I was waiting for the stories to come together in more of a clear plot. There were some real gems in this story. My favourite parts were the lawnmower, death at the ravine, the witch, love story of the old women, madam tarot, and great grandma‘s cooking. There are amazing and thought provoking parts in this book, so worth it.
pickRating: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This was my first time reading a book by Ray Bradbury so i wasnt sure what to expect but i have to say i really enjoyed this one very much. The Characters were so interesting and intriguing to read about. I couldnt pick just one Character as my favorite since all of them were my favorite.
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The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.
I‘ve read the tagged at least a dozen times over 30+ years. The writing is 🥰
I‘ve reread some of Jacqueline Woodson and Jessmyn Ward. As a child I reread Pippi Longstocking, Caddie Woodlawn, Betsy-Tacy books many times.
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📖 Dandelion Wine, The Dutch House, Doctor Sleep
✍️ David Duchovny, Charles Dickens, Anthony Doerr
🎥 Dirty Dancing, Dead Poets Society
📺 Doctor Who
🎤 The Doors, Death Cab for Cutie
🎵 Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins), Dear God (Avenged Sevenfold), Desire (Ryan Adams), Don‘t Cry (GnR), Drive (The Cars), Dustland Fairytale (The Killers)
pickI didn‘t really know what to expect, but I really enjoyed this. I‘m not a huge Bradbury fan, but so far I‘ve liked what I‘ve read. This is a vignette-centered story of the summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois. There‘s life, death, love, adventure, and some creepiness thrown in, too. I got this copy from my parents when they moved from OH to ID years ago. It‘s from 1969 and neither of them remember buying or reading it, but someone obviously did.
An excellent novel for summertime reading. One of my favorites by Bradbury.
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pickThis is a masterwork in the art of connected stories or vignettes. In the hands of Ray Bradbury, small-town America in the summer of 1928 comes alive. Kids run free and adults sip glasses of dandelion wine on their porches. But there‘s also an unsettling undercurrent of both evil and the inevitable passage of time.
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My favorite summer book ~ a magical summer in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1928! A Russian duo started work on a movie adaptation but were unable to finish due to lack of funds…
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Todays project! This is my bookcase of Classics. I am going go to catalog them on my Goodreads. Wish me luck!
I do this thing (up until now unintentionally) whereby is a name, or a concept, or a book comes up a few times in things I have read in relative succession, I figure it must be for a reason and I seek it out. A few books ago, Hilarie Burton-Morgan mentioned that Dandelion Wine is her favourite book, and now Joe Hill mentioned it as influential in the intro to Full Throttle. So I guess I have to buy this?
bailedUnfortunately these two books just weren't for me, they sounded so interesting but couldn't get into them. Dandelion Wine is my own book so will maybe try again another time.
No one has ever walked the fine line between poetry and prose any better. The similarities I have with the hero are now painful reminders that fictional characters don't have to age but I do and I have. But there is still a hope suggested by Bradbury that the memories of my own life can be pressed and bottled, to be enjoyed again when they've been forgotten as my own Dandelion Wine.
These will be the first three books in September. Today will finish Klara and The Sun. I will start Dandelion Wine tomorrow.
“A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”
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pickThis was a lovely and nostalgic summer read. I can also see how this influenced some of Stephen King‘s own classics.
so-soIt has been about 25 years since I read this, and wow it is different from my memories. I adored Bradbury as a teen, but this was a bit if a slog to get through. Slow and languid, the children are mean and each chapter is different to the point of disjointedness. I can see though why I liked it at the time, I was probably just getting onto magical realism (which I still love) and the pacing and style remind me of LuGuin and Kings Stand by Me
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so-soDefinitely not my favorite Bradbury, but the way he sets up the life of the town is very interesting. There were just too many characters, and I didn‘t care about many of them at all. I was hoping to get to the second this month, Something Wicked This Way Comes, but it‘s still on hold from the library. #authoramonth
so-soI‘m not sure what to say about this book. Now that I‘ve finished it, I can‘t really tell you what it was about. Needless to say it did not make a lasting impression on me. I didn‘t hate, but I didn‘t love it, I‘m not even sure if I really liked it or not since I didn‘t seem to absorb any of the story. Maybe I‘ll try it again another time. This is my last Bradbury for the month, total 5 read. #AuthorAMonth #AAMRB
so-soI liked this better in retrospect. The vignette style chapters were somewhat hard to follow on the audio, and I wasn‘t so much in the mood for nostalgia.
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One was recommended by a book club friend, one by a Litten, and one by my niece. All three I enjoyed.
pick❤️ End of summer was the perfect time to read this little gem.
pickAt first I thought this book was going to go over my head, but once I got into it I enjoyed the magical nostalgic feeling it caused. I listened to this one on Libby and in a few years I‘d like to do a slow re-read on paper. #AuthorAMonth2020
pickListened to this one ☝️ Such a gem 🌼🍷
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I‘m listening to this one for #AuthorAMonth, but I‘m having trouble getting into it. Wrong book at the wrong time? 🤔
I have another half to decide.
