Status Updates From Wise Child (Doran, #1)

*I* want to live in Junipers house.

Listen to the audiobook and loving it!

Wat een ontzettend lief en leuk boek ☹️🫶🏼

…this was their food as the fish and animals and fruits and berries and seeds were ours. I began to weep at the beauty of this, to say a psalm that Fillan had once taught me praising the good God.

At once I knew that the movement of the blood within me was part of the same pattern that moved the sap in the oak tree to my right. The decay of the food in my stomach was the same as the autumn decay of the plants and trees. When Juniper and I shoveled Earth upon our human droppings, I knew that the flies and the little earth creatures fed upon them;

Good

“ I thought if you were educated, you didn’t have to do boring things,” I said to Juniper the day before.
“There are people who think like that,” Juniper had said. “Such a pity. Boredom is so valuable.” I could not imagine what she meant

“Pelagius? He who thinks we are good entirely by our own endeavors?” Juniper asked. “That man’s a fool.”

“Sometimes life is too difficult to be loved. So it’s better to be sick for a bit.”

Voorlezen!

My mom gifted me the audio book back in 2015, and I was mesmerized since. I've been trying to find this book for years and got it as a gift this month. I'm happy to find it's just as magical as I remember, maybe even more so now.

I had forgotten about this gem of a book until I rediscovered it in my childhood room recently! I can’t wait to reread it more than 20 years later and experience its quiet magic all over again. 🤩

This was my most favorite book as a child- and reading it again with my daughters is unlocking a core memory for me.

My favorite childhood book ❤️

Amazing

this book is so beautiful and interesting, im LOVING it

Interessant artikel over het leven van de auteur: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ob...

Bijna op de helft! Ik luister hem als luisterboek en het duurde best lang voordat ik erin kwam. Ook een tijd niet geluisterd, maar nu zit ik er helemaal in.

Het verbaast me om te zien dat hij maar 203 pagina's is. Ik dacht dat hij veeeel langer was met ruim 6,5 uur luistertijd. Conclusie: ik ben nog niet zo goed in het inschatten van luistertijden/boeklengtes ':D.

Nu al weer helemaal obsessed zoals vroeger 😂

This book was such a fixture in my childhood. Reading it again feels like coming home

How is this so good???

Another childhood favourite to read to the children.

Well. Okay. It's been awhile since I've seen an unironic connection being drawn between red hair and evil and Judas Iscariot.

Seems like it was written by a twelve year old

I know that this is a children's book. My sister (who's 12) borrowed this book from the library and she thought it was a bit of a bore. I must agree with her, it takes me quite a long time to read only 200 pages. But still, the world-building... I love it. In my head, I can quite picture Juniper's house, the garden, her cats, etc. I'm having a good time and I will probably read the sequels as well...

Auch wenn ich das Buch erst letztes Jahr gelesen habe - es fühlt sich an wie Heimkommen.

Quotes:

“Keeping yourself clean, preparing the food you are going to eat, clearing it away

I love this. It's what I wanted when I tried to reread The Mists of Avalon (which didn't suit me in that moment, perhaps another time).

Reading this together with my eleven year old son. It leads to lots of questions. Like: "why did they do what the village priest told them too" and "does Juniper believe in God if she is a witch?" and "this is a made up story because it's about witches but could this sort of thing happen to children in that time?"

This book is so charming and magical! I can't believe I haven't read this before, I'm really enjoying it.