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  <title><![CDATA[Plant Dreaming Deep]]></title>
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  <default_description>A memoir concerning her purchase and renovation (1958) of her home in rural Nelson, NH and observations of the people who become important in her life during her time there, after moving from Cambridge, MA. While this one is not strictly a journal, in day-to-day format, it serves as a &quot;prequel&quot; to &lt;i&gt;Journal of a Solitude&lt;/i&gt;.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1968</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[May Sarton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one <em>after</em> reading the actual journals in order, so my perspective is likely a bit different.<br/><br/>The pros: May does almost no complaining here, quite a contrast from the journals! She does a terrific job evoking a sense of place, more so than later in York, ME, although she does n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29026215">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[May Sarton is such a calming influence. This is a book I've returned to several times when I need to slow down, pay more attention to the world around me. (She also was a firebrand feminist back before women &quot;did that sort of thing,&quot; so she's no shrinking violet.) This is about creating a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21627279">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 16:12:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carolyn Heilbrun--see Writing A Woman's Life--says May Sarton wrote this autobiog about buying a house and living alone and then wrote another later (Journal of a Solitude) about the same time, only including all the difficult feelings and dark parts of the experience and herself, that she left out ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66056105">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoy all of Sarton's books.  This may be my favorite -- reminds me of Celestine Sibley's book, A Place Called Sweet Apple.  There's something very transformative about the middle aged woman who takes a fixer-upper house and renovates it to become a haven for her artistic endeavors.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is as if a prequel to &quot;Journal of Solitude.&quot;  It specifies the town in New Hampshire where Sarton lived and characterizes its people. It is made up of her daily life jottings.  It fits with its companion beautifully and is as beautifully written.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 24 06:21:16 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[just another great may sarton book]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes rereading a book treasured in adolescence is a disappointment--but this account of how the poet/novelist/diarist found and made her home in the small New Hampshire town of Nelson has gained resonance for me with the family losses that recent years have brought.  This journal is a moving ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4431937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because one of my former university professors, Margot Peters wrote a biography of the writer/poet.  After hearing Peters speak, I decided I wanted to learn more about May Sarton.  Sarton's autobiograpical book describes renovating and moving into a house where she can write and feel at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37280864">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 05 11:40:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the best Sarton books - get in beside this sometimes cranky but always tasteful lady and enjoy her NH property and interior thoughts.  Some deep thoughts on mutability of life and how shall we live...but I liked it just as much for the descriptions.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my earliest of Sarton's and it convinced me to explore her in depth -- I'm not done yet but this one holds a special spot in the collection -- and I've rereead it at least once.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love this book and love re-reading it and obsessively underlining. if you can't get into her journals this may be the gateway...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Need to read again.]]></body>
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