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Number9Dream

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12. I re-read "Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury
Tue May 28, 2019, 08:09 AM
May 2019

First, I hate winter and love summer, so any books or movies that help transport me to warm, sunny days are good. "Dandelion Wine" transports me back to boyhood and summer, even though mine was in the '60's rather than 1928. The feelings and emotions in it are timeless. These words appear very early in the book, "Summer had gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer."

The chapters are episodic, but flow with the passing of the season. Typical Ray Bradbury, many of the episodes have qualities of fantasy and magic. "Dandelion Wine" reminds me that Mr. Bradbury could describe the ordinary as amazing and meaningful. A completely wonderful book which I'm sure I'll re-read again in a couple years.

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I re-read "Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury Number9Dream May 2019 #12
Nice write up! hermetic May 2019 #13
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