Garden Spells

Garden Spells, by Sarah Addison Allen

I am in love with this book, which is all about love and loss and hurt and happiness. It's about families, about small towns where you carry the baggage of all your ancestors, and about sisters. It's about wanting to belong, and what happens when you don't. It's about magic, and some seriously tasty-sounding food. Go read it.

Book Quote of the Day #3

"Magic -- to use a word I'd rather not -- is not as simple as technology. Anyone can turn on a radio or flip a light switch. Magic takes training. A violin, for example, is an elaborate construct, but where one person can use it to create lovely music, another will make only scrapes and screeches."

. . . . "So you're saying that items created for magic are more like violins than radios. The virtue in them is as much in the user as in the item."

Jane Lindskold, Child of a Rainless Year