The Blue Castle

Title: The Blue Castle

Author: L. M. Montgomery

Rating: ★★★★★

Age Category: Young Adult/Adult

    Back Cover Synopsis: 

    "If it had not rained on a certain May morning, Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different."

    At twenty-nine, Valancy had never been in love and it seemed romance had completely passed her by. Her only consolation were the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle.

    All her life Valancy lived on a quiet little street, in an ugly little house, never daring to contradict her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt. Until the fateful day a letter came from Doctor Trent - and Valancy decided to throw caution to the wind once and for all...

    For the first time in her life, Valancy said and did exactly what she wanted. Soon she discovered a world full of fine surprises and real adventures that she never knew could exist outside of her secret Blue Castle.

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"The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you." — Louis Zamperini — 

Sonnet 15 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 15

by William Shakespeare

When I consider every thing that grows

Holds in perfection but a little moment,

That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows

Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;

When I perceive that men as plants increase,

Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky,

Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,

And wear their brave state out of memory;

Then the conceit of this inconstant stay

Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,

Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,

To change your day of youth to sullied night;

And all in war with Time for love of you,

As he takes from you, I engraft you new.

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 "I think togetherness is an important ingredient of family life.” — Barbara Bush — 

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“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”― Robin Hobb ―

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 "Sound loves to revel in a summer night." - Edgar Allan Poe -

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 "Do you know what love feels like? That feeling that makes your heart so warm you would never need summer to come again." - Unknown -