Book Chatter

It’s a beautiful day in Southern California and I just realized that the kid’s baskets, the ones that I have had for each of them since birth, are missing! Every year we put them out for the Easter Bunny to fill and I cannot find them anywhere! This is only our second year in this house but I remember putting them up in a closet for safekeeping and they are not there now.

I could hit one of the stores to get two different baskets but it’s not the same. I’ve torn the house apart. I have no idea what happened to them. To be honest with you, I don’t think the kids would care too much as long as they had other baskets but it’s sort of sad for them to be gone. I am going to have my husband check the attic just in case they got shoved up there when we put the Christmas stuff away.

Anyway, have a Happy Easter!

Friday Finds is hosted by Should Be Reading. It’s so hard to walk around with blinders on so I can’t ignore all the books I see, but I have asked myself to only focus on one or two new ones per week. Here’s the one that caught my eye:

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.

Some of you may know Ms. Morton’s work from reading The House at Riverton. Here’s a bit from Barnes & Noble:

“A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book — a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and with very little to go on, “Nell” sets out on a journey to England to try to trace her story, to find her real identity.

Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell’s death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled. At Cliff Cottage, on the grounds of Blackhurst Manor, Cassandra discovers the forgotten garden of the book’s title and is able to unlock the secrets of the beautiful book of fairy tales.”

It sounds pretty good doesn’t it? I am adding it to my Goodreads list now 🙂

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