Comments on: a bent cover http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/02/10/a-bent-cover/ "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." Annie Dillard Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:16:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cynthia http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/02/10/a-bent-cover/#comment-396 Fri, 22 May 2009 12:38:04 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=1549#comment-396 Hi Sochi-

I love May Sarton too! But I’ve only read her journals, three of them: Plant Dreaming Deep, Journal of a Solitude, and The House by the Sea. How do you like her poetry?

I think I’ll put one of her novels on my list for this summer. Do you have one to recommend?

Hope to hear back from you–cynthia

]]> By: Sochi http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/02/10/a-bent-cover/#comment-394 Thu, 21 May 2009 19:57:03 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=1549#comment-394 I love May. I have felt this affinity since I read A Journal of Solitude. Collecting all her works. Right now I long to have Plant Dreaming Deep and A Grain of Mustard Seed. I write and am glad to have had an experience of her metaphysical didacticism. It hurts that she wasn’t as recognised as her peers. She’ll always have a place in my heart.

]]> By: Suzanne http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/02/10/a-bent-cover/#comment-239 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:29:00 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=1549#comment-239 That portrait of May Sarton in your post is gorgeous! I love the colors.

I absolutely can’t stand bent covers or pages in books, either! I try to straighten them, too.

]]> By: Suzanne http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/2009/02/10/a-bent-cover/#comment-238 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:24:38 +0000 http://catchingdays.cynthianewberrymartin.com/?p=1549#comment-238 I really loved Plant Dreaming Deep. I just read it a couple of months ago, and I read it about ten years ago. I loved it both times. I just made my way through most of Journal of a Solitude because you mentioned it somewhere in your postings. I liked little bits of it, but I didn’t like all the whining and complaining, even though that goes on in real life. I guess I have enough of it in my real life, so I don’t need or want to read about hers, even if it is May Sarton. I guess it should make me feel better that she often got terribly depressed and enraged, but it doesn’t. I like Plant Dreaming Deep so much better, where that bad stuff is mostly sifted out. In Journal of a Solitude, she talked about how people would have the wrong idea of her if they just read Plant Dreaming Deep and didn’t hear about all the annoying, sad, depressing things in her life. But I don’t really want to read about those. So I stopped reading Journal when I probably just had fifty pages to go.

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