Reading Alan Garner’s The Stone Book Quartet was an incredible experience. I read it in an afternoon, sitting in the kitchen with the dog asleep at my feet, and rain beating against the window. Not that I was aware of my surroundings for long. The voices in those pages spoke directly to me, called me [...]
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Monday, May 7th, 2012Tags: Alan Garner, books, brilliance, craft, reading, stories, writing, writing advice
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