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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
I read this 100-year-old story to my daughters and we all were transported to Missselthwaite's secret garden. A lovely story.
Favorite passages:
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
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The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.
Favorite passages:
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live... surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
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The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
Very heartwarming little story, reading it made me want to pick up a trowel and get out in the garden! I wouldn't say it's memorable but definitely feel-good.
It’s a charming children’s story of how a little ‘magic’ can help anyone find joy, love, friendship and good health.
The magic the children find in nature, through the secret garden, is written and described so beautifully that it is a joy to read. All the characters play their part and each have their own little magical touch that adds a special warmth to the book.
While I’m pretty certain I read this as a child, I have to admit I didn’t really remember it that well. While predictable in a way that most children’s stories are, it is perfectly paced throughout.
Admittedly I did find it difficult to read at times with the strong Yorkshire dialect but it absolutely worked as a whole for the story. It was actually quite refreshing too!
A solid 4 stars for me and one that I will no doubt reread again and again with my girls.
The magic the children find in nature, through the secret garden, is written and described so beautifully that it is a joy to read. All the characters play their part and each have their own little magical touch that adds a special warmth to the book.
While I’m pretty certain I read this as a child, I have to admit I didn’t really remember it that well. While predictable in a way that most children’s stories are, it is perfectly paced throughout.
Admittedly I did find it difficult to read at times with the strong Yorkshire dialect but it absolutely worked as a whole for the story. It was actually quite refreshing too!
A solid 4 stars for me and one that I will no doubt reread again and again with my girls.
pamietam, że czytając to (ok. 4 klasa) bardzo się męczyłem, chociaż z perspektywy czasu nie wydaje mi sie już taka zła.
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love it so much and it holds such meaning and I am glad I read it and I am currently rereading it
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes